Baidu and Shanghai Zhangjiang (Group) Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Zhangjiang Group”) recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shanghai. Both parties will fully integrate their respective professional capabilities and superior resources to carry out comprehensive cooperation in zhangjiang Science City new smart city, new smart park and industrial empowerment and upgrading, and jointly boost Shanghai’s digital transformation.
Du Shaoxiong, vice General Manager of Zhangjiang Group, and Huang Yan, vice president of Baidu Intelligent Cloud signed contracts with Baidu on behalf of Zhangjiang Group respectively. Wu Jun, deputy Director of Zhangjiang Administration Bureau of Free Trade Zone, Yuan Tao, Party Secretary and chairman of Zhangjiang Group, Liu Yawen, vice President of Baidu, Liu Jie, deputy general manager of Baidu Smart City Division witnessed the signing.
The realization of urban digital transformation is an important task in the 14th five-year Plan period of Shanghai.
Released in January 2021, Shanghai on comprehensively advancing digital transformation of Shanghai city “opinion”, made it clear to the digital transition as a “difference” in Shanghai’s economic and social development is one of the main direction, from “the city is living, organism,” the global view, as a whole, governance, promote the urban economy, life fully digital transformation.
The 2021 Report on the Work of the Shanghai Municipal Government also proposed that Shanghai will focus on promoting the digital transformation of the city and accelerate the building of an international digital capital with global influence.
In recent years, Zhangjiang has accelerated its layout in artificial intelligence, online new economy and other emerging industries, creating zhangjiang ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Island, which is the first batch of “AI+ Park” pilot application scenarios in Shanghai and the first full-scene “5G+AI” commercial demonstration park in China. 2020, zhangjiang put forward by the “island” change “area” to build the vision of zhangjiang artificial intelligence gathering area, expect by zhangjiang AI fu to the center of the building, to accelerate the industrial scenario fusion and application in the field of innovation, from zhangjiang zhangjiang science city, the central radiation whole to drive to Shanghai pudong new area of artificial intelligence, high quality development.
As the main force in the construction of Zhangjiang Science City, the promoter of emerging industries and the builder of science and innovation ecology, Zhangjiang Group will become the backbone of urban digital empowerment under the new wave of accelerating the construction and layout of digital transformation.
Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island
Baidu is a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation, and is one of the few companies in the world that provide AI chips, software architecture and applications for the full stack OF AI technologies. In the field of smart city, relying on the urban AI application management and operation capabilities provided by “City Brain”, a complete smart city construction architecture and solutions have been formed to facilitate high-quality and intelligent urban development.
This signing is a further cooperation between the two parties based on their consensus on the development direction of digital transformation. With the new smart city of Zhangjiang Science City and related projects as the carrier, Baidu will give full play to its capabilities and advantages in technology, data and ecology and combine the advantages of Zhangjiang in location, industry, strategy, talent and service to explore and jointly build a new model of urban digital transformation with “Zhangjiang characteristics”. Smart urban management, smart emergency response, smart parks, smart communities, smart medical care, smart environmental protection and other smart urban scenarios will be created to inject “acceleration” into the digital development of Pudong New Area.
The relationship between Baidu and Zhang dates back to 2005. In 2005, Baidu (China) Co., LTD settled in Zhangjiang Central District;
In 2008, Baidu (China) Shanghai R&D Center was established, which is responsible for the research and development of several important baidu projects, such as search technology internationalization support;
■ In February 2021, Baidu Brain DuMix AR platform and its industrial head-mounted computer manufacturing partner Revel will jointly create the first industrial AR training solution demonstration project in Zhangjiang ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Island.
With the deepening of bilateral cooperation and the expansion of cooperation scope, we will contribute more wisdom and strength to the high-quality development of Shanghai’s economy in the future.