China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced plans in 2017 to leverage artificial intelligence to promote industrialization, develop high-end products, and improve manufacturing. The plan aims to transform businesses and government through collaborative innovation across industries. It has seven focus areas including medical imaging, language translation, and unmanned vehicles, and outlines goals for each to establish China as the global AI leader by 2030.

1. HOW CHINA PLANS TO USE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND
DOMINATE GLOBAL BUSINESS
China’s AI game plan
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2. China’s AI game plan
In 2017, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology (MIIT) announced their plans for Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
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3. China’s AI game plan
What exactly will China achieve by leveraging AI?
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4. China’s AI game plan
AI will help China
 Promote industrialization
 Integrate technology
 Develop high-end products
 Improve intelligent manufacturing
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5. China’s AI game plan
AI will help China
 Improve public support system
 Promote new gen AI industry
 Build a network powerhouse
 Transform and upgrade the real economy
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6. China’s AI game plan
What does all this mean?
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7. China’s AI game plan
It means China is looking at
integrated, collaborative innovation.
Something that will not only transform
businesses but also government policy, education
and the industrial ecosystem.
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8. China’s AI game plan
The action plan is divided into five steps.
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9. China’s AI game plan
Step 1
Understand AI trends in the context of national and
international realities.
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10. China’s AI game plan
Step 2
Use top-level strategy and build local level co-
operation
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11. China’s AI game plan
Step 3
Deploy AI in systematic phases
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12. China’s AI game plan
Step 4
Implement in phases for quality outcomes.
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13. China’s AI game plan
Step 5
Build an AI industry system that’s world class
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14. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(1) Medical imaging systems
Smart systems with more accurate diagnosis to serve
even rural China where healthcare is sub-optimal
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15. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(1) Medical imaging systems
Goals:
 Keep false negatives below 1%
 Detect common diseases with at least 95% accuracy
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7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(2) Audio intelligence
Smart systems with heightened speech recognition
abilities.
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7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(2) Audio intelligence
Goals:
 96% accuracy in speech recognition by 2020
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18. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(3) Connected vehicles
Smarter vehicles that can navigate in complex traffic
scenarios.
World’s most valued AI startup ‘SenseTime’ belongs to
China and is working on collision warning system
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7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(3) Connected vehicles
Goals:
 Phase I: Cover low-level automated driving by 2020
 Phase II: Cover high-level automated driving
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7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(4) Language translation
Take on the challenge of multiple languages.
China’s IT giant Baidu launched talking translator.
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21. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(4) Language translation
Goals:
 Achieve or exceed 85% language translation accuracy
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22. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(5) Service robots
Robots for fields as diverse as education, cleaning and
caregiving
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23. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(5) Service robots
Goals:
 Overcome challenges of novel scenarios
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24. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(6) Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Drones (UAVs) that can beat jamming or avoid
collisions
China has the world’s largest transport drone.
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25. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(6) Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Goals:
 360-degree omni-directional sensitivity
 An accuracy margin of 0.005 degrees.
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26. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(7) Image recognition
Accurately recognize citizens and validate their
identities
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27. China’s AI game plan
7 Focus areas of China’s strategic plan for AI
(7) Image recognition
Goals:
 Help build China’s all-encompassing Social Credit
System by 2020
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28. China’s AI game plan
This AI plan is fanned out in 3 stages.
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29. China’s AI game plan
Stage 1.
Ends in 2020.
Targets China having a hand in every single pie that
has to do with AI.
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30. China’s AI game plan
Stage 2.
Ends 2025.
Aims to achieve major technological breakthroughs in
AI by the year 2025.
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31. China’s AI game plan
Stage 3.
Ends 2030.
Dominate the AI scene worldwide by being the
AI technology leader.
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32. China’s AI game plan
All this poses a severe challenge to businesses
everywhere, particularly the USA and Europe.
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