Shanghai: Accelerate the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure represented by AI and blockchain

PANews reported on March 8, the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government today issued the “Implementation Plan for Promoting the Quality and Expansion of Service Consumption in the City”. Among them, the part of promoting the transformation and upgrading of information consumption infrastructure mentions that the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure represented by AI, 5G, and blockchain will be accelerated. Establish a platform for the supervision of the whole life cycle of the city’s data centers, and carry out evaluation and evaluation of the efficiency of computing power use on a pilot basis. The part on promoting the R&D of information service consumer products mentions that enterprises are encouraged to increase R&D investment in the fields of “5G+”, “VR+”, “AI+” and “Beidou+”, and create integrated demonstration application scenarios such as artificial intelligence models, metaverses, and blockchains. Focus on cultural tourism consumption, vocational training, medical health and other fields, promote the establishment of a number of benchmark demonstration scenarios, and form a number of metaverse applications. Support the construction of demonstration application scenarios in the fields of intelligent education and teaching, autonomous driving, etc.