Three-year Action Plan for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry in Hunan Province (2019-2021)

Artificial intelligence is a strategic technology leading the future and an important driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. In order to implement the State Council’s "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s "Three-year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020)", seize historical opportunities, promote the development of the artificial intelligence industry in our province, and promote artificial intelligence Deeply integrate with the real economy, help the construction of a strong manufacturing province and a strong network, and empower the province's high-quality economic development, and formulate this action plan.

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total requirements

(1) Guiding ideology

Fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, with the promotion of the integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy as the main line, and key core technologies as the main direction, actively develop artificial intelligence innovative products and services, and promote The industrialization of artificial intelligence technology, promote the in-depth application of artificial intelligence, focus on cultivating artificial intelligence companies and industries with major leading and leading roles, and develop the artificial intelligence industry into Hunan. Promote supply-side structural reforms, build emerging advantageous industrial chains, and create high-quality modern An important supporting force for the economic system and the promotion of social progress.

(2) Development principles

Innovation leads. Grasp the development trend of artificial intelligence technology, adhere to the forward-looking layout, optimize the allocation of innovative resources, enhance the original innovation ability, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in several core areas, and form an artificial intelligence innovation system with Hunan characteristics.

Key breakthroughs. Based on the industrial foundation, we will concentrate our strengths and innovative resources to support the research and development of artificial intelligence products in key areas, accelerate industrialization and application deployment, and drive the overall improvement of the industry.

Application demonstration. With "artificial intelligence +" as the starting point, we will further promote the integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy, strengthen the application and radiation guidance in key areas, implement demonstration projects for scenario applications, promote development with applications, and promote the cultivation of new technologies, new business forms, and new models.

Open development. Optimize the development environment, advocate open source sharing, strengthen open cooperation, improve coordinated development mechanisms, and promote the open sharing of common artificial intelligence technologies, resources, and services. Promote the two-way transformation and application of military and civilian scientific and technological achievements, and build a new pattern of deep military-civilian integration. Strengthen safety assurance capabilities and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry.

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Action goal

By 2021, the province’s core industry of artificial intelligence will reach 10 billion yuan, and the scale of related industries will reach 100 billion yuan. The overall level of the artificial intelligence industry is in the forefront of the country. The artificial intelligence industry chain will continue to improve, and the basic support will continue to increase. The artificial intelligence innovation leading area, artificial intelligence industry cluster area and artificial intelligence application demonstration area with important domestic influence.

——Innovative capabilities have been significantly improved. Build about 10 international and domestic first-class artificial intelligence basic research and open innovation platforms, form a batch of core invention patents, technical standards and specifications, and initially establish an open and collaborative artificial intelligence technology innovation system.

——The large-scale development of key products. The intelligent networked automobile industry has made breakthroughs, the industrialization of intelligent rail transit products such as intelligent rail trains has been accelerated, the global leading advantages of intelligent engineering machinery products have been further consolidated, the intelligent robot industry chain has been continuously improved, and the level of products such as intelligent information terminals and smart homes has been greatly improved.

——The demonstration application has achieved remarkable results. The development of intelligent manufacturing is deepened. The industries such as construction machinery, rail transit, new materials, non-ferrous metallurgy, electronic information, and new energy are deeply integrated with intelligent technology, and the development of intelligent manufacturing ecosystem is accelerated. "Artificial Intelligence+" has continued to expand, and a number of integrated application projects have progressed smoothly.

——The support foundation continues to strengthen. Build a batch of basic support platforms such as supercomputing services, big data infrastructure, open source software and hardware, smart product testing, industrial cloud platform, etc., and form a certain scale of high-quality annotation data resource library, standard test data set, artificial intelligence standard system, testing The evaluation system and the framework of the security guarantee system have been initially established, the construction of an intelligent network infrastructure system has been accelerated, and the development environment of the artificial intelligence industry has become more complete.

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main mission

(1) Key technology innovation plan

1. Research on common key technologies. Facing Hunan's key industry layout, relying on the National University of Defense Technology, Central South University, Hunan University and other universities and various scientific research platforms to break through the key technologies of the new generation of artificial intelligence. With algorithms as the core and data and hardware as the foundation, comprehensively improve the capabilities of perception recognition, knowledge reasoning, intelligent computing, cognitive understanding, collaborative control and operation, and human-computer interaction, forming an open, compatible, stable and mature technical system. Focus on the research and development of intelligent data labeling and labeling, deep learning model frameworks and algorithms, knowledge learning and calculation engines, natural language processing and computer vision, and complex scene perception for vertical segmented industries such as intelligent manufacturing, intelligent driving, intelligent education, and intelligent medical care. Key technologies such as cognition, cross-media analysis and reasoning, autonomous precision perception and manipulation, industrial interconnection data drive and knowledge guidance, and software and hardware integration man-machine collaboration.

2. Research and development of core components and systems. Give full play to Hunan's unique advantages in supercomputers, special sensors, CPUs, GPUs and other high-end general-purpose chips, autonomous controllable operating systems and other fields, and focus on layout according to the four levels of smart sensors, smart chips, smart operating systems, and smart ecosystems . Support the development of intelligent and miniaturized research on laser gyroscopes, inertial navigation systems, radar, visible light, ultrasound, infrared and other sensors, and develop the intelligent sensing industry; breakthrough artificial intelligence chip design, packaging, testing, and manufacturing technologies, and develop neural network processing Promote the development of high-end smart chips; leverage the advantages of Hunan’s information security industry to build smart industrial operating systems, smart driving operating systems and smart robot operating systems based on independent software and hardware; support development and support This is an open source and open basic platform for artificial intelligence with heterogeneous hardware and algorithm software to establish an artificial intelligence ecosystem that encourages innovation, organic integration, open compatibility, and rapid application.

(2) Smart product innovation plan

1. Intelligent delivery vehicles. Leveraging Hunan’s first-mover advantage in key areas of intelligent transportation, relying on platforms such as the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Changsha) Test Area, the National Advanced Rail Transit Equipment Innovation Center, etc., accelerate the development of on-board multi-dimensional perception and information fusion, and intelligent integrated power modules and components , High-level automatic driving, deterministic real-time Ethernet train communication, health management and life prediction and other key technologies, develop smart products such as smart rail transit, smart public transport, smart heavy trucks, and unmanned delivery vehicles, and explore demonstration applications and business models. Strengthen the transformation ability of innovative resources in Hunan universities, break through the key technologies of unmanned products such as intelligent obstacle avoidance, automatic cruise, data transmission, link control, monitoring management, and collaborative control systems, and develop military drones, industrial-grade drones, and consumer products UAVs and unmanned ships (boats). Support Xiangjiang Group, CRRC Zhuzhou Research Institute, CRRC Zhuzhou Machinery, CRRC Times Electric, Unmanned Systems Research Institute of National University of Defense Technology, China Aerospace Power Machinery Research Institute, Yaguang Technology (Sunbird), Hunan Xiangship Heavy Industry, Cornerstone Information , Kunpeng Zhihui and other research and development independent intelligent delivery system technology products.

2. Intelligent engineering machinery. Focusing on cultivating world-class industrial clusters, actively researching and developing high-precision sensors and intelligent control software and hardware systems such as integrated millimeter-wave radar, lidar, remote fault monitoring and maintenance that are required by the construction machinery industry, and breakthroughs in complex environmental perception and unmanned systems for specific application scenarios. Driving control, coordinated control of multiple types of operating equipment, high-precision positioning and attitude control, intelligent scheduling, remote operation and maintenance, intelligent mining and transportation, etc., develop intelligent unmanned excavators, aerial work machinery, environmental sanitation operation machinery, mining Use dump trucks, tunnel construction equipment, key components and other products. Support Zoomlion, Sany Heavy Industry, CRRC Times Electric, Railway Construction Heavy Industry, Sunward Intelligent, etc. to implement the "Product 4.0 Project".

3. Intelligent robots. Promote the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence, Internet, Internet of Things and other technologies and robotics in industrial manufacturing, people's livelihood services and special industries. Promote the application of industrial robots in Hunan's advantageous industries such as construction machinery, automobiles, new materials, non-ferrous metallurgy, electronic information, aerospace, food and medicine, and civil fireworks. Improve the technical level of service robots in terms of intelligent perception, intelligent analysis and intelligent decision-making. Carry out research on special robots and promote their application and industrialization in the fields of reconnaissance operations, emergency rescue, fire inspection, and special detection. Increase the research and development of key components such as high-performance servo motors, drives, reducers, controllers, sensors and end effectors. Support the Robotics Research Center of National University of Defense Technology, Zhongnan Intelligent, Lensi Intelligent, Hunan Superpower, Yuhuan CNC, Chutian Technology, Huashu Hi-Tech, etc. to increase the cooperation between upstream and downstream research and development of the industrial chain to enhance product competitiveness.

4. Smart terminal products. Promote the close integration of smart terminals with information consumption and big data, accelerate the application of key technologies such as human-computer interaction, biometric recognition, computer vision, virtual reality, augmented reality, and Beidou navigation in the field of information terminal products, and develop a new generation of smart phones, Technologies and products such as in-vehicle smart terminals, financial smart terminals, smart security monitoring terminals, smart logistics equipment, smart wearable devices, etc. Promote the in-depth integration of smart terminal technologies and products with mobile games, video applications, location services, social networks and other fields, and innovate business models. Support China Great Wall, Lens Technology, ZTE Intelligent, Flextronics, Xiangyou Technology, Changsha Haige, Sannuo Bio, etc. to increase the research and development and industrialization of related smart terminal software and hardware technologies and products.

5. Smart home products. Aiming at the widespread application of technologies such as image recognition, voice recognition, natural language processing, intelligent search, and automatic control in household products, a cloud platform and big data are used to build a home appliance information platform to promote the intelligent upgrade of traditional home appliances. Focusing on home security, health care, smart entertainment, environmental monitoring, energy management and other fields, realize the interconnection of smart products, and develop smart home appliances, smart lighting, 4K TVs, smart furniture and other products. Promote the organic integration of smart security, smart home, smart communities, and smart cities. Support Wasion Group, Guoke Microelectronics, Anker Innovation, Smart Eye (Hunan), Zero One Smart Home, etc. to increase research and development of technology products and innovate service models.

(3) Innovative application plan in key areas

1. Intelligent manufacturing. Focusing on 20 industrial emerging advantageous industrial chains, facing the intelligent upgrading needs of the manufacturing industry, relying on the industrial Internet platform, accelerating the research and application of industrial artificial intelligence service platform application technology, production equipment intelligent IoT technology, new production and manufacturing models, and exploring machine-based The intelligent manufacturing execution system of perception and cognition realizes networking of production equipment, visualization of production data, transparency of production processes, and unmanned production sites. Increase pilot demonstrations of smart manufacturing, build a batch of smart production lines, smart factories, and unmanned factories, create a batch of smart manufacturing demonstration enterprises and workshops, and promote discrete smart manufacturing, process smart manufacturing, networked collaborative manufacturing, and large-scale personalized customization , Remote operation and maintenance services and other new models to enhance the pilot demonstration level of smart manufacturing.

2. Medical and health. Facing the medical process auxiliary scene, develop products such as diagnosis guidance robots, voice electronic medical records, and intelligent consultations. Facing diagnosis and treatment scenarios, research and development of digital medical imaging, analysis systems, diagnosis systems, health detection systems and other intelligent equipment. For personal health management and smart health care scenarios, build a health big data system, develop health virtual assistants, rehabilitation robots, health management wearable devices, audio-visual and physical intelligent auxiliary equipment and other products. Support the development of large-scale genome recognition, proteomics, metabolomics and other research and new drug development based on artificial intelligence. Promote the intelligentization of pharmaceutical supervision and strengthen the intelligent surveillance, prevention and control of epidemics.

3. Transportation and logistics. Construct intelligent transportation infrastructure based on artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, Beidou navigation and other technologies, promote intelligent road network monitoring and guidance and integrated operation coordination and command system, and improve the level of intelligent and coordinated transportation system management and control. Increase the research and development, promotion and application of intelligent logistics equipment such as loading, unloading and handling, sorting and packaging, processing and distribution, and build a deep-sensing intelligent warehousing system to improve the level and efficiency of warehousing operation management. Improve the intelligent logistics public information platform and command system, product quality certification and traceability system, intelligent distribution scheduling system, etc.

4. Cultural and creative tourism. Give full play to Hunan’s first-mover advantage in the field of cultural, creative and tourism, and use industrial clusters such as the Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park as the carrier to promote computer vision, deep learning and other artificial intelligence technologies, and take the lead in media, film and television, games, animation, and industry. Develop applications in design and other fields to realize the intelligence of demand analysis, script design, content creation, editing and production, and precision marketing. Strengthen the technological development of intelligent tourism information services, tourism e-commerce, digital research of historical and cultural heritage, and technological protection and restoration of cultural relics ontology, promote the intelligent construction of museums, libraries, art galleries, and key scenic spots, and improve service levels and interactive experience.

5. Green and environmental protection. Highlight the national major strategic regional environmental protection such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Chang-Zhu-Tan area of the atmosphere, the Xiangjiang River protection and governance "Key Project No. 1", etc., and establish an intelligent monitoring big data platform system covering the environmental fields of the atmosphere, water, and soil, and build An intelligent environmental monitoring network and service platform that integrates land and sea planning, world integration, upper and lower collaboration, and information sharing. Strengthen the construction of intelligent prediction model methods for resource and energy consumption, environmental pollutant discharge, early warning schemes, and intelligent prevention and control systems for environmental emergencies.

(4) Intensive development plan

1. Create industrial clusters.

Relying on Chang-Zhu-Tan-Heng to create the "Made in China 2025" pilot demonstration city cluster and build a national artificial intelligence industry cluster. Promote the joint cultivation and construction of a number of artificial intelligence clusters, innovation demonstration zones, characteristic towns, and crowd-creation bases by ministries, provinces, and cities. Relying on Changsha and Zhuzhou to cultivate industrial clusters of intelligent networked vehicles and intelligent rail transit. Relying on Xiangjiang New District, Changsha High-tech Zone, Yuhua Economic Development Zone, Yuelu Mountain National University Science and Technology City, Zhuzhou High-tech Zone, etc., create a characteristic industrial park or artificial intelligence technology city. Relying on cities, counties and industrial parks with relatively better artificial intelligence innovation resources to build new entrepreneurial service organizations, form a good entrepreneurial ecology that gathers various resources, and create an open innovation and entrepreneurship base. Encourage AI-leading companies to build specialized crowd-creation spaces and incubate spin-offs.

2. Cultivate "specialized, high-quality" enterprises.

Focus on subdivided fields, highlight technological innovation, and accelerate the development of a group of "little giants" and "invisible champions." Encourage various industrial parks, technology business incubators and crowd-creation spaces, prioritize artificial intelligence as a priority support and service area, promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and incubate and cultivate entrepreneurial enterprises.

In the core areas of speech recognition, pattern recognition, smart sensors, chips, etc., establish a key enterprise cultivation library, provide accurate support for platform construction, talent training, brand cultivation, and model innovation of the warehousing enterprises, and cultivate a group of competitive labor Intelligent backbone enterprises and "unicorn" enterprises. Encourage enterprises to carry out cross-regional, cross-industry, and cross-ownership mergers and acquisitions through various forms, and open green channel services for administrative approval matters such as mergers and reorganizations. Support qualified enterprises to build open computing platforms, improve service capabilities, and build an artificial intelligence platform company with core competitiveness and influence.

3. Introduce leading companies. Use platforms such as the World Computer Conference, China (Changsha) Cybersecurity·Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, and Artificial Intelligence (Hunan) Conference to target the world's top 500, large multinational companies and industry leaders, and actively carry out targeted investment promotion, business investment promotion and chain supplementation Merchants. Support global leading artificial intelligence companies to set up research institutions, regional headquarters, and innovation in Hunan
Center, incubation base and "double innovation" platform. Support qualified places to compile a database of key investment projects in the global artificial intelligence industry, and plan to introduce a number of high-end industrial projects and leading enterprises.

(5) Supporting system construction plan

1. Increase the construction of basic support platforms.

Focusing on the National Manufacturing Innovation Center, Key Laboratories, and Enterprise Technology Centers, we will carry out forward-looking research on core artificial intelligence technologies, and systematically deploy the industrial direction and application areas that may have a significant impact in the future. Encourage universities, scientific research institutes and core artificial intelligence enterprises in the province to lay out and build a batch of innovative platforms for the research of artificial intelligence cutting-edge basic technology, core key common technology research and development, and typical application development.

In response to the core needs of the development of the artificial intelligence industry for computing resources, data resources and technical services, we will increase deep learning training and knowledge large databases, application experience centers, open source software and hardware basic platforms, cloud computing service platforms, inspection and testing service platforms, etc. The construction of a public service platform provides support for innovation and entrepreneurship, and promotes the marketization, industrialization, large-scale and internationalization of technologies and products.

2. Build an intelligent infrastructure system.

Promote the construction of intelligent information infrastructure. Improve the coverage of optical fiber and 4G in cities and towns across the province, and accelerate the deployment of new network technologies such as 5G networks and narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT). Increase the construction of industrial Internet network infrastructure, and promote the integration of industrial Internet platforms to gather basic manufacturing resources. Strengthen the construction of the National Supercomputing Center in Changsha, and build an ecological environment for high-performance computing applications. Accelerate the deployment of cloud-network-end integrated vehicle networking, and optimize the "people-vehicle-road-cloud" collaborative environment.

Improve the intelligence level of traditional infrastructure. Accelerate the intelligent transformation of infrastructure such as power grids, highways, railways, airports, ports, etc., and form an intelligent system with dynamic, comprehensive coverage, ubiquitous interconnection, and precise decision-making. Enhance the intelligent management capabilities of agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, and environmental protection infrastructure. Promote the intelligent upgrade of urban infrastructure such as gas, water and underground pipe corridors.

Consolidate the foundation of data resources. Relying on government governance, public services, industrial development, technology research and development and other data sharing and exchange platforms, data open platforms, etc., integrate various data platforms and data center resources in the society, build and improve basic information databases, and form a coverage of the whole province, a reasonable layout, and unobstructed links Integrated service capabilities.

3. Strengthen the construction of network information security.

Aiming at key AI products or industry applications such as smart connected cars, smart robots, smart homes, etc., carry out security technology research such as vulnerability mining, security testing, threat warning, attack detection, emergency response, etc., and promote advanced AI technologies in the field of network information security The in-depth application of the system promotes the construction of shared resources such as vulnerability libraries, risk libraries, and case collections. Accelerate the development of the artificial intelligence network information security industry, and form an artificial intelligence security prevention and control system framework and security assurance platform. Strengthen information security guidance, risk assessment, supervision and inspection of key links in the integration of manufacturing and the Internet, such as industrial control systems, Internet of Things applications, and key equipment in important areas, and accelerate the establishment of industrial information security work systems and guarantee work mechanisms.

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Safety precautions

(1) Strengthen organizational guarantees

Under the leadership of the leading group of manufacturing provinces, establish an artificial intelligence industry development liaison mechanism to strengthen overall planning, coordination, guidance and services. Support the construction of artificial intelligence industry think tanks and industrial innovation alliances, strengthen the research on the forward-looking and strategic major issues of artificial intelligence, and provide major decision-making consultation and evaluation.

(2) Increase policy support

Give full play to the demonstration and guiding role of financial funds, and encourage angel investment, venture capital and emerging industry investment funds to increase investment in the artificial intelligence industry. Encourage financial institutions to innovate financial products and services, and support the development of the artificial intelligence industry. Explore the establishment of a provincial artificial intelligence industry investment fund, carry out the identification and reward of the first (set) of artificial intelligence major technical equipment, and support the declaration of insurance subsidies for the country’s first (set) major technical equipment. Implement relevant tax preferential policies such as value-added tax deduction, comprehensive utilization of resources, and small and micro enterprises. Establish a "white list" system for artificial intelligence enterprises to accurately serve the development needs of enterprises.

(3) Deepen open cooperation

Build a cooperation network linking high-end artificial intelligence resources around the world, and unblock communication channels with well-known foreign innovation centers, associations, and industry institutions. Encourage enterprises in the province to carry out technological research and development and industrial cooperation with relevant domestic and foreign enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions, and jointly carry out the research and development and transformation of new technologies and new products. Strive to substantively incorporate our province’s artificial intelligence and intelligent networked vehicles into the Sino-German cooperation framework and integrate them into the global innovation and industrial development system. Support multinational companies and foreign research institutions to set up specialized institutions and production enterprises in Hunan. Encourage enterprises in the province to set up overseas R&D centers, offshore incubators, and implement overseas investment and mergers and acquisitions, etc., to promote products and services to go global.

(4) Optimize the development environment

Encourage regions and industries with a better foundation for the artificial intelligence industry and greater development potential to organize the transformation of artificial intelligence achievements, major product integration innovations, and demonstration applications. Support all localities to build artificial intelligence industry clusters and innovation highlands around the artificial intelligence industry chain and innovation chain. The World Computer Conference, Artificial Intelligence Conference, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition are regularly held to focus on the world's top resources and stimulate the vitality of innovation and entrepreneurship. Intensify research on relevant policies, laws and regulations, and promote the establishment of institutional systems covering industrial technology, standards, applications, safety, law, and ethics. Strengthen the use and protection of intellectual property rights, and punish infringements in accordance with the law. Establish and improve the statistical monitoring system, and strengthen the analysis and monitoring of industrial development.

(5) Strengthen the cultivation of talents

Encourage and support qualified institutions and enterprises, strengthen cooperation and interaction with the world's top artificial intelligence research institutions and enterprises, and introduce international top scientists, high-skilled talents and high-level innovation teams. Support the flexible introduction of high-end talents through project cooperation and technical consultation. Encourage enterprises, universities, research institutions, etc. to jointly develop various forms of talent training. Support colleges and universities in the province to optimize the allocation of disciplines and majors, adjust and build a batch of artificial intelligence-related disciplines, improve the level of artificial intelligence-related disciplines, and promote the interactive integration of artificial intelligence and other disciplines. Support vocational colleges and enterprises to cooperate in the construction of artificial intelligence talent training bases for key industries. Organize and implement artificial intelligence training courses overseas. Support the construction of "Xiangjiang Artificial Intelligence Academy".

Source: Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology