The southern Chinese megacity of Shenzhen has unleashed a barrage of policies aimed at propelling itself to the forefront of the global artificial intelligence and robotics industries, as the metropolis seeks to reaffirm its status as China’s leading technology hub.
In a rare move, the city rolled out three major action plans in a single day on Monday, which outline measures to accelerate its adoption of AI, strengthen its smart computing capacity to support local AI businesses, and establish a global lead in robotics, respectively.
The first policy focuses on rapidly growing Shenzhen’s AI terminal industry – a field that includes a wide range of AI-driven devices, from smartphones to smart-home products and industrial systems.
It sets goals of increasing the market value of Shenzhen’s AI terminal industry to 1 trillion yuan (US$137 billion) by 2026, fostering at least 10 leading AI terminal businesses, and raising the output of local AI terminal makers to more than 150 million units.
Another plan issued the same day outlines Shenzhen’s ambition to become a global leader in robotics by 2027.
