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CHONGQING, China, Aug. 25, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Smart China Expo 2021 opened Monday in southwest China's Chongqing

Municipality. Chongqing Liangjiang New Area signed key projects on the opening

day, such as IAT Liangjiang international automobile R&D base, Tencent Cloud

industrial Internet intelligent industry headquarter, iFlytek and QI-ANXIN

Group regional headquarters, involving innovative R&D of automobile industry,

industrial Internet, artificial intelligence, network infrastructure and other

fields, according to Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee.

The signing of these projects reflects the firm confidence of enterprises in

the prospects and markets of digital economy and intelligent industries in

Chongqing and Liangjiang New Area, in the meantime, strongly supports the

intelligent development of big data industry in Chongqing and Liangjiang New

Area.

In recent years, Liangjiang New Area has given full play to the advantages as a

pioneer by promoting intelligent innovation of big data and driving industrial

innovation with scientific and technological innovation. Local digital economy

and intelligent industries have posted vigorous development momentum, with some

6,000 digital-economy enterprises settling in the area.

In the first half of this year, the added value of digital economy in Chongqing

Liangjiang New Area reached 33.628 billion yuan, up 54.6 percent year-on-year,

accounting for one third of Chongqing's digital economy. The booming digital

economy has injected a strong impetus into the transformation and upgrading of

local automobile, electronics, equipment and other industries. At present,

Liangjiang New Area has completed 233 big data intelligent transformation

projects, and built 60 digital workshops and 21 intelligent factories.

As an important carrier of the smart expo, Liangjiang New Area launched a

management system before the event kicks off, to promote the development of

industrial parks and smart city in terms of industrial and urban development.

The management system features "industry areas + heads of industry chains",

where designated government officials lead the chain, heads of industrial

associations and unions, and presidents of leading companies play as the chain

owners, and "heads of parks", according to which each park in the new area will

have a leading person responsible for the operation and maintenance of the park.

Liangjiang seeks to promote the complete transformation of industrial parks

into industrial new cities and create a high-quality development leading area

by focusing on the development of pillar industries, strategic emerging

industries, modern service industries, digital economy and the Liangjiang

Collaborative Innovation Zone. Efforts are being made to create a new

high-quality living space for citizens and a high-quality life demonstration

area.

Liangjiang New Area is the main position, battlefield and engine for the

development of smart industry and digital economy in Chongqing, and it is also

an important host for the series of activities of the expo. This year,

Liangjiang New Area continues to run the Smart Expo well in a high-quality and

high-level manner to showcase more smart technologies, products, services and

scenarios to more participants. Liangjiang will leverage the expo to further

promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy, the

industrial development of digital economy and digitalization of industries. Big

data intelligence will be used to empower economy and enrich life.

For more information, please visit http://www.liangjiang.gov.cn

Source: Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee