BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, recently unveiled a plan to accelerate development of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry from 2019 to 2022, aiming to bring the output value of the AI industry to more than 50 billion yuan by 2022.
To accelerate the AI development, Chengdu will concentrate efforts to create a national AI industry innovation demonstration zone, and make efforts to promote construction of Singapore-Sichuan International AI Center and Jingrong AI town.
In addition, Chengdu will orderly guide the city's industrial functional areas to build smart parks by centering on the the industrial positioning and AI scenarios.
Chengdu will also speed up the settlement of the National Supercomputing Center in the city to build high-performance computing infrastructure and enhance the capabilities of supporting the information infrastructure services. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)