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19:55

                            Gong Zheng meets with NVIDIA President and CEO Huang Renxun
                        
                            Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng met with NVIDIA President and CEO Huang Renxun and his delegation today. Gong Zheng said that as China's economic center city, Shanghai is focusing on the "five centers" to accelerate the construction of a socialist modern international metropolis with global influence. Integrated circuits and artificial intelligence are the leading industries that Shanghai focuses on developing, and have achieved rapid development in recent years. Shanghai has become China's city with the strongest comprehensive integrated circuit technology strength, the largest industry scale, and the most complete industrial chain. We welcome NVIDIA and other world-renowned high-tech companies to seize the opportunities of China's super-large-scale market and Shanghai's expansion of high-level opening up, gather global resources and elements, strengthen in-depth cooperation with local companies, and create a bright future for scientific and technological development. Shanghai will continue to create a market-oriented, legal, and internationalized first-class business environment to help all types of companies achieve better and greater development.
                        
19:25

                            Guangdong: We must step up efforts to expand effective investment and promote the implementation of projects in the fields of low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, and new infrastructure as soon as possible
                        
                            The Finance and Economics Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee held a meeting on the afternoon of April 18 to analyze the economic operation of the province in the first quarter and study and deploy the next stage of economic work. The meeting pointed out that the second quarter is very critical to the economic work of the whole year. We must increase our efforts to expand effective investment, adhere to the main and important, and seek new and new things, further increase investment promotion efforts, accelerate the implementation of "two-heavy" projects and the construction of landmark projects, promote the implementation of projects in the fields of low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, new infrastructure, etc. as soon as possible, promote the formation of more physical volume, and plan and reserve major projects in combination with the "15th Five-Year Plan".
                        
18:25

                            Shanghai: Issued relevant support policies for the construction of power system regulation capabilities, encouraging private enterprises to enter the fields of virtual power plants, vehicle-grid interaction, new energy storage, etc.
                        
                            Shanghai issued the "Several Measures to Promote High-quality Development of the Private Economy in the New Era and New Journey", which mentioned that private enterprises are supported to expand effective investment. Support private enterprises to invest in advanced industrial projects around the encouraged fields in the national industrial structure adjustment guidance catalog and the development direction of our city's key industries, and increase policy support and factor allocation. Guide private capital to participate in project construction and operation management in the fields of transportation, energy, and affordable rental housing. Issue relevant support policies for the construction of power system regulation capabilities to encourage private enterprises to enter the fields of virtual power plants, vehicle-grid interaction, and new energy storage. Support private enterprises to participate in the construction of key application scenarios for green and low-carbon transformation such as green fuels and circular economy. Encourage private enterprises to participate in the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure such as data and computing power. Through computing power subsidies, support private enterprises to rent intelligent computing resources for large-scale model research and development training and application, and support colleges and universities, scientific research institutions, and state-owned enterprises to use data storage and computing power resources built by private enterprises. Encourage private enterprises to build new infrastructure projects such as trusted data space, embodied intelligence, and low-altitude economy, and promote commercial banks to provide them with preferential interest rate loans. At the same time, government special fund management units provide interest subsidies of up to 1.5 percentage points on the basis of preferential interest rates. Establish a database of key private investment projects and provide land, energy, capital and other security factors.
                        
17:27

                            Li Lecheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, meets with Sultan, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates
                        
                            Li Lecheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, met with Sultan, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates, in Beijing on April 18 to exchange views on strengthening cooperation in the field of industry and information technology. Li Lecheng said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is willing to discuss cooperation and development with the UAE, deepen cooperation in the petrochemical field, jointly promote the sustainable development of the photovoltaic industry and the application of green energy, explore the potential for cooperation in the fields of electronic manufacturing, information communication, artificial intelligence, etc., and promote more practical results. Sultan expressed his willingness to strengthen communication and exchanges with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, deepen strategic docking, and jointly explore the potential for cooperation in the fields of equipment manufacturing, solar energy, wind power and batteries. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company will be committed to further promoting pragmatic cooperation between the two countries in petrochemicals, new energy and other fields, and welcome Chinese companies to invest and develop in the UAE.
                        
17:18

                            Fudan Microelectronics: Will continue to enrich the spectrum of field programmable gate array products
                        
                            On April 18, Fudan Microelectronics executives told reporters at the 2024 annual performance briefing that as the demand for artificial intelligence applications increases, FPGAs can leverage their parallel computing, flexibility, and programmability to gain new application space. The company will continue to enrich its field programmable gate array product line to meet the market demand for new-generation FPGA products in artificial intelligence and digital communications, and further enhance the company's market position and overall competitiveness.
                        
17:14

                            Streaming giant Netflix uses AI to produce special effects to reduce costs, and its quarterly earnings exceed expectations
                        
                            Video streaming giant Netflix boosted sales and profits significantly last quarter. Revenues increased 12.5% to $10.5 billion compared to the same period last year. Quarterly profits jumped 24% to $2.89 billion. Netflix uses artificial intelligence in its production process, especially to achieve cheaper special effects.
                        
16:34

                            The Ministry of Commerce issued the "Work Plan on Accelerating the Comprehensive Pilot Program for Expanding the Opening-up of the Service Industry"
                        
                            The Ministry of Commerce issued the "Work Plan on Accelerating the Comprehensive Pilot Program for Expanding the Opening-up of the Service Industry". Support the open development of telecommunications services and related digital industries. Expand the opening-up of value-added telecommunications services, increase the opening-up of software and information services, and promote the accelerated industrialization and application of artificial intelligence. Strengthen innovative exploration in the development and utilization of data resources, data transactions, and data security, improve the supporting market service system, and encourage the development of related businesses and formats.
                        
16:22

                            The National Development and Reform Commission signed three cooperation documents with relevant Cambodian departments
                        
                            On April 17, 2025, under the joint witness of the leaders of the two countries, Director Zheng Zhajie of the National Development and Reform Commission exchanged three cooperation documents with the heads of relevant Cambodian departments on key projects and tasks of the Belt and Road Initiative, artificial intelligence, and the planning of Cambodia's "Industrial Development Corridor". The two sides signed the "Memorandum of Understanding between the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China and the Development Council of the Kingdom of Cambodia on the List of Key Projects and Tasks for the Belt and Road Initiative", promoting practical cooperation in various fields under the cooperation plan of the Belt and Road Initiative to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. The two sides signed the "Memorandum of Understanding between the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China and the National Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of the Kingdom of Cambodia on Deepening Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence", strengthening cooperation in the development and governance of artificial intelligence, and promoting artificial intelligence technology to benefit the people of the two countries. The two sides signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China and the Development Council of the Kingdom of Cambodia on the Planning of Cambodia's "Industrial Development Corridor", promoting the construction of Cambodia's "Industrial Development Corridor" and improving Cambodia's economic development level.
                        
15:13

                            Huang Renxun has left Beijing after meeting with government officials
                        
                            On April 18, reporters learned from Nvidia that the company's CEO Huang Renxun had left Beijing after meeting with government officials. Nvidia did not disclose other details of Huang's trip to China, including whether Huang met with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng.
                        
11:17

                            Domestic brain-computer interface chips have achieved new breakthroughs, breaking the dependence on imports, marking the realization of full-chain independent control of brain-computer interfaces in my country
                        
                            Hainan University School of Biomedical Engineering announced today that Hainan University has officially released its independently developed implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) core technology and series of products, including the world's leading brain-computer interface dedicated chip, neural signal acquisition system, neural signal regulation system and neuron positioning system. This breakthrough marks that my country has achieved full-chain technology autonomy and control in the field of brain-computer interface, injecting "Chinese core" power into brain science research and medical applications. It is reported that Hainan University's core technology has broken the dependence on imports and its performance has reached the world's top level. Hainan University's brain-computer chip neural engineering team has developed a number of core chips around invasive brain-computer interfaces, including: SX-R128S4 high-throughput neural signal acquisition and stimulation chip, SX-S32 high-degree-of-freedom neural regulation chip, and SX-WD60 low-power wireless transmission chip. The above chips achieve full-link coverage of brain-computer interface signal acquisition, regulation, and transmission, and their performance is comparable to international first-line products.
                        
10:54

                            Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: We will make every effort to promote artificial intelligence to empower new industrialization
                        
                            The State Council Information Office held a routine press conference on the first quarter economic data at 10 a.m. today. Xie Shaofeng, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in the next step, we will make every effort to promote artificial intelligence to empower new industrialization, focus on supply, organize artificial intelligence to empower new industrialization, strengthen the research and development layout of general large models and industry large models, accelerate the construction of high-quality data sets in the industrial field, consolidate the basic foundation, and promote "intelligent industrialization"; focus on application, promote the intelligent upgrade of the entire process, key industries, and key products of the manufacturing industry, and accelerate the industrialization and commercialization of super intelligent terminals in the next step. Continue to carry out the collection of empowerment "deep lines" and typical cases, select "top ten industries, hundred scenarios, and thousands of benchmarks", and promote "industrial intelligence". At the same time, we must build an ecosystem, guide patient capital to increase support, and accelerate the cultivation of a number of industry leading enterprises and specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises. Build an open source community for artificial intelligence, give full play to the role of the artificial intelligence standardization technical committee, accelerate the development of key and urgently needed standards, strengthen talent introduction and cultivation, ethical governance and international cooperation, and continue to create a good industrial ecology.
                        
09:46

                            Fudan University research team releases the world's fastest semiconductor charge storage technology
                        
                            The research team of the National Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems and the Institute of Frontier Technology of Chips and Systems of Fudan University recently released a semiconductor charge storage technology that can perform 2.5 billion operations per second, which is the fastest semiconductor charge storage technology in the world to date. This achievement has been published in the internationally renowned academic journal Nature. It is reported that the team's researchers have proposed a new idea for speeding up. This innovation not only achieved a huge breakthrough in speed, but also this new type of memory will not lose data in the event of power failure. The main person in charge introduced that this new achievement is not far from being transformed into commercial applications. At present, the team has cooperated with manufacturers to conduct tape-out verification. In the future, this technology is expected to play a huge role in artificial intelligence computing and other aspects.
                        
09:19

                            9 departments: Relying on new technologies and equipment such as robots to expand domestic service consumption scenarios
                        
                            The Ministry of Commerce and nine other departments issued a notice on several measures to promote the expansion and upgrading of domestic service consumption. It proposed to accelerate the digital development of the domestic service industry. Support domestic service companies to accelerate digital transformation, use digital technology to improve the efficiency of supply and demand matching and consumer participation, and realize the personalized design of consumer domestic service plans, full participation in the service process, and evaluation and sharing of service results. Support cross-border cooperation between domestic service companies and digital technology companies, use big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to carry out user portraits and precise services, and rely on new technologies and new equipment such as robots to expand domestic service consumption scenarios. Cultivate platform-based Internet domestic service companies to improve industry management effectiveness, service efficiency and digital service level.
                        
08:44

                            CICC: Data centers play a key role in supporting the development of the digital economy
                        
                            According to a research report by CICC, data centers play a key role in supporting the development of the digital economy. Data center service providers mainly provide hosting services for server physical computer room environments, which have gradually evolved from simple data storage in the early stage to core infrastructure supporting cloud computing, big data analysis and artificial intelligence applications. Since the 1990s, it has experienced the germination period of technology, the cultivation period of industrialization, and the transformation period of cloud computing. It has now entered a new stage after the rapid growth of intelligent computing. Industry demand will reach a turning point in 2024. Intelligent computing has brought about changes in demand. The demand for data centers is highly correlated with the capital expenditure of cloud vendors. The increase in server purchases by cloud vendors will be transmitted to the increase in demand for data centers. Looking forward to 2025, the capital expenditure of downstream cloud vendors and the Internet will show an upward trend, leading to the emergence of many large orders in the third-party IDC market. The recovery in demand is expected to bring about the stabilization of the price of newly signed orders year-on-year.
                        
08:30

                            Recommended Data shortage hinders the implementation of AI all-in-one machines, experts propose new paths for data component governance
                        
                            At the 3rd Digital Development Conference and Digital Economy Summit Forum held on April 17, Lu Zhipeng, director of the Data Development Committee of CCF (China Computer Society), introduced the new data solution that his team is developing, namely the data governance method based on data components. Lu Zhipeng said that DeepSeek has become popular this year, making models equal and artificial intelligence entering enterprises and society. A batch of DeepSeek all-in-one machines have been launched on the market. Some companies think that deploying the DeepSeek model on the server is an all-in-one machine, which can be used out of the box. As a result, after purchasing, customers found that it did not achieve the effect in the manual, which caused legal disputes. Lu Zhipeng said that his team sorted out the business logic of six high-quality data constructions, including scenario demand analysis and data resource investigation, data collection and governance, domain high-quality data set construction, domain knowledge base construction, model fine-tuning and training, and model application, and finally formed an all-in-one machine solution. After deployment and scenario-based fine-tuning, the model answering logic and fluency have been improved. In addition, data governance based on data components eliminates the concerns of enterprise departments about not sharing data, breaks data silos, and supports enterprise digital transformation.
                        
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