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China unveiled a three-year plan on Thursday to boost the application of artificial intelligence in the automobile, healthcare and other sectors, in its latest push to upgrade the country's real economy, with a top-level campaign to bolster high-end manufacturing already driving the production of robots up by 70 percent this year.
The plan, published on the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said China aims to build a globally competitive smart Internet-connected car industry by 2020, with breakthroughs in self-driving platforms.
AI-enabled services robots will also be widely used in China within three years, with a focus on robots that can help senior citizens and children.
The country also aims to accelerate the use of AI-enabled systems to assist doctors in medical cases, the plan said.
China said earlier this year it aims to build a one trillion yuan (147.9 billion US dollars) AI core industry by 2030, through a national "AI development plan" which aims to generate an additional 10 trillion yuan from the industry.
Robots and Artificial Intelligence will find a huge potential in upgrading the nation's production lines, listed as a key development area in the country's "Made in China 2025" strategy.
In just the first 10 months this year, a total of 100,000 industrial-use robots were made, with 20,000 more expected by the end of this year, the ministry said on Friday.
The market volume of China's industrial robots is expected to reach 4.2 billion yuan in 2017 and increase to 5.9 billion in 2020, and currently represents about one third of global demand, the leading market in the world.
The newly-published guidelines provide a blueprint on how to better integrate AI into other industries and to shore up the "Made in China 2025" initiative, said Lu Chuncong, director of the Policy and Economic Research Institute at the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, a government think tank affiliated with the ministry.
The new instructions distinguishes itself from the national AI development plan which focuses more on technological breakthroughs.
(CHINA DAILY)
