The 2022 Smart China Expo held in Chongqing. (PHOTO: Xinhua)

By Staff Reporters

Attracting global attention, the AI implementation on display at the 2022 Smart China Expo, held in Chongqing this August, brought to light multiple technological innovations among the exhibitors.

Technologies such as smart warehousing and AI live streaming were all demonstrated at this expo, exposing a trend of automating work and systems as part of the high-quality development commitment by China.

"We were no more than a factory who took subcontracting orders for beepers many years ago," said the principal engineer Chen Jing of an exhibiting company of the expo. Now, relying on 5G and smart warehousing, the company can extract a single required hard disk from thousands of others with one simple order, said Chen.

"We have now become an industrial leader, thanks to the digital transformation of our industries," he said.

These AI-driven technologies also signal the acceleration of digital transformation among participating enterprises, creating new demands on a large scale. In 2021, the size of China's digital economy reached 45.5 trillion RMB, representing a rise of 16.2 percent year-on-year, accounting for 39.8 percent of the overall national economy. Digital economy, in light of this, has developed into a major component of China's national economic structures.

In line with the Development Plan on the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence by the State Council in 2017, the Smart China Expo aims to continually unleash growth potential through AI transformations, scaling up the domestic digital economy to a higher level.