On the afternoon of June 23, the Fourth World Intelligence Congress kicked off 
in Media Theater, Tianjin. Wan Gang, Vice Chairman of CPPCC and Chairman of 
China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), attended the online 
opening ceremony. CPC Tianjin Committee Secretary Li Hongzhong addressed the 
congress. Li Xiaohong, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), 
congratulated the congress through video. Huai Jinpeng, Executive Vice Chairman 
of CAST, Zhang Guoqing, Mayor of Tianjin attended the meeting. Park Won Soon, 
Mayor of Seoul, Republic of Korea, delivered a speech via video. The congress 
was presided over by Gong Ke, Chairman of the World Federation of Engineering 
Organizations. 58.6 milliocn people watched the cloud opening ceremony and 
theme summit at the same time on 40 live streaming websites and platforms, and 
the total number of views reached 392 million.

Wan Gang pointed out that the congress is a high-end platform for artificial 
intelligence communication jointly created by Tianjin and CAST. We will open up 
big data, apply blockchain and innovate in cloud services during the pandemic 
prevention and control; promote the development of new industries, further 
drive the intelligent process and digitization of the entire industry chain, 
and continuously boost the close combination of artificial intelligence with 
real economy; create a new platform for employment, build an open source 
sharing platform, and forge the "Sci-Tech Innovation China" brand; continuously 
deepen basic research, build a world-class artificial intelligence development 
platform and industrial ecosystem; and promote international cooperation in the 
field of artificial intelligence.

Li Hongzhong said that Tianjin comprehensively promotes the strategic layout of 
the new generation artificial intelligence industry, and intelligent technology 
is becoming the core driving force for high-quality development in the city. 
Tianjin will take the initiative to embrace the new era of intelligence, push 
forward the construction of a pioneer city in the fourth industrial revolution, 
build itself into an innovative city in intelligent technology, an energization 
city of the intelligent industry, and an ecological city of intelligent 
development, continuously optimize its business environment, and strengthen 
cooperation in intelligence fields with various parties from home and abroad. 

According to Li Xiaohong, Tianjin has embarked on a new way of 
innovation-driven development with the intelligence technology industry as the 
lead, and Tianjin Intelligent Port shows a promising future. 

Park Won Soon said that this year is a crucial year for the construction of 5G 
networks in Tianjin. He hoped Seoul and Tianjin will strengthen communications 
and share experience on the construction of intelligence industrial 
infrastructures.

At the theme summit, representatives from the global intelligence technology 
industry and academia delivered speeches on site or via video accesses. Among 
them include Gao Wenjiu, academician of CAE, Ma Huateng, Chairman of the Board 
of Tencent, Max Tegmark, tenured professor at the MIT Department of Physics, 
Yang Yuanqing, Chairman of Lenovo Group, Yang Xu, Global Vice President of 
Intel Corporation, Edmund Phelps, laureate of Nobel Economics Award, Wang Jian, 
Chairman of the Technical Committee of Alibaba Group, and Raj Reddy, foreign 
academician at CAE and winner of Turing Award.

Themed on Intelligence New Era: Innovation, Energization and Ecology, the 
Fourth World Intelligence Congress applied the modes of "meetings, exhibitions, 
contests and intelligence experience" to hold six cloud events namely, cloud 
promotion, cloud release, cloud bilateral talk, cloud intelligence experience, 
cloud intelligence technology exhibition, world intelligent driving challenge 
contest, "Fifth Space" intelligent safety competition, Tianjin "Haihe Talents" 
Entrepreneurial Competition, as well as 13 cloud parallel forums, cloud and 
on-site contract signing activities.

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