Chongqing- The Smart China Expo (SCE) 2022 is held in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality from August 22 to 24, where development plans, latest achievements, and hot topics are discussed on the application of frontier technology of intelligent science in the building of the smart city.
The Expo gathered over 50 Fortune Global 500 and Fortune China 500 enterprises, including Huawei, Bosch, BOE, and Inspu, combined with the global release of Beitai Tianyuan numerical calculation software V2.0 and the launch of the Baidu autonomous driving commercial operation scheme for the first time.
The theme of Smart China Expo 2022: is "Smart Technology: Empowering Economy, Enriching Life." (Wang Yiling/iChongqing)
With an exhibition area of 90,000 square meters, 557 exhibitors from 19 countries and regions participate, including Italy; more than 1560 application scenarios are presented in over 30 fields, and make extensive use of information technology such as naked eye 3D, Virtual Reality (VR), and Extended Reality (XR).
This year's SCE highlights the cutting-edge achievements showcase. Fifty-eight new products, such as a high-definition 8k decoder and intelligent machine workshop, 15 new technologies including desert socialization smart agriculture, 24 new applications like "city brain" big data platform, and 16 new achievements involving microchip and IntelliSense system, are presented at this session.
Focusing on "Smart City" this year, the SCE sets up the guest of honor province by Sichuan Province, aiming to accelerate the development of intelligent industries in Chengdu and Chongqing through cooperation.
A girl plays with the car in the exhibition hall of SCE 2022. (Wang Yiling/iChongqing)
This year marks the fifth year of the SCE, helping Chongqing to accelerate the construction of the smart city and promote the deep integration of digital technology and economic and social development. With Chongqing as the fulcrum, the integration and exchange of advanced technologies between China and foreign countries will be further promoted in big data intelligence.
The world-renowned scientists attended, including 2010 Nobel Prize winner Konstantin Novoselov and 2021, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and heads of well-known enterprises like Changan Auto, Alibaba Group, and Huawei.
Turing Prize winner Jack Dongarra delivered a video speech. (Wang Yiling/iChongqing)
During the Opening Ceremony and Summit of the SCE on August 22, they presented video speeches discussing new technologies, developments, and trends in "smart city" construction.
Dongarra said that China has two of the latest top ten supercomputer rankings. Computer technology has developed rapidly over the past three decades, achieving significant technological advances.
On August 22, 2022, the Smart China Expo kicked off in Chongqing. (Wang Yiling/iChongqing)
According to Dongarra, China is the largest consumer and manufacturer of supercomputers. So far, China has 173 supercomputers manufactured by companies like Lenovo, Inspur, and Sugon.
In the future, Dongarra believes that supercomputers will become more customized, evolving from combining the central processing units (CPU) and graphics processing units (GPU) to accelerating operations to computers containing other accelerators.
Lu Yong, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of the China Region, said that Huawei would collaborate with Chongqing to build a smart city further.
Over the past few years, Huawei has participated in the infrastructure construction of Chongqing's 5G, cloud, and artificial intelligence.
According to him, smart cities need to be "perceptive, thinking, evolvable, and warm" to deepen their renewal. Therefore, Huawei will work with Chongqing to develop a smart city based on four aspects: an urban digital base, smart capability integration, manufacturing industry development, and a prosperous application ecosystem.
As Chongqing aims to become a national advanced manufacturing center, Huawei will aggregate Chongqing's characteristic industries, such as intelligent manufacturing, healthcare, and autonomous driving, into tens of billions of industrial clusters.