CCTV Business Channel:

We have noticed that in recent years, various technological innovations have developed rapidly. Emerging industries like AI and future industries like humanoid robots are receiving much attention. What measures will the MIIT take to promote these industries? Thank you.

Jin Zhuanglong:

Thank you for your question. As the reporter mentioned, new fields such as AI and humanoid robots are emerging with the ongoing technological revolution and industrial transformation. Countries worldwide are planning and positioning themselves for the future, and China is actively exploring these areas. Indeed, AI is injecting new momentum into economic and social development, profoundly changing how we live and work. The 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-level Meeting on Global Governance of AI opened in Shanghai yesterday. Premier Li Qiang attended and delivered a speech, and the Shanghai Declaration on Global AI Governance was issued. From the perspective of industry and information technology, we must seize the opportunities brought by the technological revolution and industrial transformation to deeply integrate sci-tech innovation with industrial innovation. By prioritizing green, intelligent, and integrated development, we encourage enterprises to plan for the future and proactively invest, build new advantages for future development, and ensure the deep integration of sci-tech and industrial innovation.

We should cultivate and expand emerging industries. Strategic emerging industries in China account for about 13% of GDP, offering enormous growth space and potential. For advantageous industries like 5G, new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and lithium-ion batteries, we need to accelerate the strengthening, extension, and supplementation of industrial chains, further enhance technological advantages, expand market scale, and improve the competitiveness of the entire industrial chain. For emerging industries such as new materials, AI, intelligent connected new energy vehicles, new energy storage, hydrogen energy, biomanufacturing, commercial aerospace, and the low-altitude economy, we need to continue leveraging China's vast domestic market and rich application scenarios. We must systematically promote technological innovation, large-scale development, and industrial ecosystem construction to cultivate a batch of leading enterprises with strong dominance across the entire ecosystem and form more emerging pillar industries that can lead to industrial upgrading.

We also need to plan ahead for future industries. In January, in collaboration with the education and science and technology departments, we jointly issued guidelines on promoting the innovative development of future industries. These guidelines focus on six areas: future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health, laying the groundwork for their development. Next, focusing on these six directions — primarily humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, the metaverse, next-generation internet, 6G, quantum technology, atomic-level manufacturing, and deep-sea and space development — we will implement a series of scientific research projects, achieve significant advancements in key core technologies, develop iconic products, achieve landmark accomplishments, and establish enterprise incubators. We will support regions with the necessary conditions to take the lead in developing typical application scenarios, explore the construction of pilot zones for future industries, and cultivate more high-tech enterprises, unicorn enterprises, and innovative SMEs that use special and sophisticated technologies to produce novel and unique products.

Thank you.