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**By APD writer Yang Haohan **
**BEIJING, Dec, 16(APD)- **The opening ceremony ofthird “Smart City and Healthy China” summit forum concluded in Beijing on Saturday.
At the opening ceremony on Friday, experts from across the country offered their opinions on building a smart city, the importance of big data as well as advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence.
Wang Yukai, professor of the Beijing-based National School of Administration / Photo by Yang Haohan
“In my opinion, I think the smart society (city) is a society with digitalization, network and intelligence,” Wang Yukai, professor of the Beijing-based National School of Administration said, “A city will become more convenient as the digitalization, network and artificial intelligence improves. From intelligent transportation system, smart cars to driverless cars, the AI-powered technology will become more integrated in our daily lives.”
Wang also stressed that the development of artificial intelligence may lead to mass unemployment.
Big data and network were the two key words of the forum because the two technologies are key to achieve goals of building smart city and healthy China.
Li Qi, director of the center for Intelligence City Studies of Peking University
“Network, cloud computing, big data and geospatial-information technology will be used to build a smart city,” Li Qi, director of the center for Intelligence City Studies of Peking University, said, “A smart city can not run without data interchange center, open algorithm platform, data application platform, large-scale computing platform and data acquisition system.”
Shi Wenyong, chairman of Netqin Company, illustrated the application of big data into river pollution control. He said setting up a data-sharing cloud platform has been proved to be effective to curb and prevent river pollution.
The two-day event also held four sub-forums with topics of characteristic towns, intelligent health, medical treatment and intelligent lighting.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
