The Ministry of Science and Technology ("MOST") has recently issued the Letter on Supporting the Building of the National Pilot Zone for the Innovative Development of New Generation Artificial Intelligence in Shanghai.
This letter reads that the Letter on Proposing Building the National Pilot Zone for the Innovative Development of New Generation Artificial Intelligence in Shanghai submitted by the Shanghai Municipal Government has been received and the reply is hereby given after research as below. First, efforts at building this pilot zone should be oriented toward the country's major strategies and development needs of the Shanghai Municipality, be centered on promoting the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and economic and social development, and be dedicated for exploring new approaches and mechanisms for new generation AI development, to create good practices that could be reproduced and promoted; and this pilot zone is expected to play a vital role in building a globally influential hub for science and technology innovation, facilitating the integrated development of cities in the Yangtze River Delta region and driving the healthy AI development across the whole country. Second, high-end innovation resources will be gathered together to reinforce innovation capacity building. And third, AI governance will be pushed ahead, and the ecology of innovation and entrepreneurship will be improved.