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70 YEARS ON | Student hang out Diplomats Tianjin keeps learn about operations high-tech hub of CPPCC

By ZHANG YI [email protected] goal in sights About 60 ambassadors and dip- lomats to China from 40 Asian countries, as well as representa- City has ‘made great achievements’, tives from two international orga- nizations, paid a visit to the aims to become R&D base, mayor says National Committee of the Chi- nese People’s Political Consultative By OUYANG SHIJIA in Now, Tianjin is shaping up to Conference on Monday to learn and YANG CHENG in Tianjin become a high-tech hub, having about China’s political system. rolled out a series of supportive The event aims to promote the Tianjin, a major northern port policies to develop the blossoming implementation of the outcomes city, has witnessed positive out- artificial intelligence sector as it of international activities held in comes in its efforts to pursue high- aims to inject new impetus into Asia, including the Second Belt quality development, and the city the city’s economic growth. and Road Forum for International will continue working to boost Last December, Tianjin unveiled a Cooperation and the Conference productivity and seek new three-year plan to boost the innova- on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations. momentum to foster green and tive development of seven AI-related It also helps the diplomatic sustainable development, accord- industrial chains, including the envoys deepen their understand- ing to its city government. independent and controlla- ing of the nature and functions of “We’ve made great ble information system, the country’s political advisory achievements in the field of smart security, big data, body and promotes cooperation smart technologies, buoyed advanced communications, between the CPPCC and related by a group of leading tech intelligent connected vehi- College volunteers from China and abroad interact with elementary school students in Qionghai, Hai- organizations of those countries. firms and research insti- cles, industrial robots and nan province, on Monday. Eighteen international students from countries including Spain, South Korea They watched a documentary tutes,” said Zhang Guoqing, intelligent terminals. and Egypt, along with 26 from Chinese universities, hung out with the children and gave lessons on for- featuring the history of the mayor of Tianjin. “Next, we The new plan aims to eign languages and the Rubik’s cube. YUAN CHEN / FOR CHINA DAILY CPPCC, listened to the introduc- will ramp up efforts to build complete the transforma- tion of its work. During the discus- the city into a national Zhang tion of the city into an AI sion session, they raised questions advanced manufacturing Guoqing innovation center and a on issues of concern to them. research and development hub of AI industries and Loh Ka Leung, Singapore’s base as well as a hub of stra- AI innovative applica- ambassador to China, said China’s tegic emerging industries.” tions in 2020. New technology helps researchers political advisory body is very spe- Zhang made the remarks on Last May, Tianjin set up a 100 cial and plays an important role. Monday at a State Council Infor- billion yuan fund to invest in AI He asked about the CPPCC’s work mation Office news conference technologies, focusing on emerg- decrease emissions at coal plants in public diplomacy to enhance held in Beijing. ing fields including robots, smart exchanges with Asian countries. According to him, the city will software and hardware as well as In response, Yang Yanyi, a mem- make a big push to transform and intelligent vehicles. By ZHANG YANGFEI coal-based energy structure is not The team has been working with ber of the foreign affairs committee upgrade traditional industries, thus Buoyed by supportive govern- [email protected] likely to change in the short term. Energy Group to apply the of the CPPCC National Committee, creating new growth and bringing ment policies, Tianjin has attract- Pollutants such as nitrogen technology. In 2014, the company’s Jia- said many CPPCC members are about innovation-driven develop- ed a wide range of companies to Researchers at Zhejiang Universi- oxides, particulate matter and sul- hua power plant was retrofitted with experts from different fields who ment. expand in the booming smart tech- ty aim to further lower the emis- fur dioxide emitted when coal is the ultralow emission system, and the know China well and also have More efforts are needed to foster nologies market, including Sugon, sions of coal-fired power plants by burned are major causes of atmos- emission indicators of all major pollu- global vision, which gives it an the high-end industrial chain, Huawei, Lenovo and Inspur. improving the ultralow emission pheric pollution, including smog. tants are now about one-sixth of strict advantage in conducting introduce more innovative high- Sugon, a leading Chinese super- technology they have developed. “So how to reduce the emissions European Union standards. exchanges with other countries. tech companies, create a high-tech computer manufacturer, is beefing Their system can effectively reduce of coal-fired power plants is of great It has been recognized as a model Last year, the foreign affairs com- and high-end innovation platform up efforts to build a national-level the emissions of pollutants such as significance to China’s clean coal power plant in energy saving and mittee organized some political and pursue the application of advanced computing innovation sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide and utilization and energy security, and emission reduction by the National advisers to conduct a survey on the smart technologies, Zhang noted. center in Tianjin, considering the heavy metals such as mercury. it has become a national strategic Energy Administration. problems in the construction of the In the first half of this year, the burgeoning demand for comput- “We are improving the accuracy imperative,” Gao said. By June 2017, Zhejiang Energy Belt and Road Initiative in three city’s GDP surged 4.6 percent year- ing power. The center is set to be of the system, lowering the operat- His team has been studying techno- had upgraded 46 power plants. Asian countries — Pakistan, Bang- on-year to about 1.04 trillion yuan completed in 2021. ing costs under variable load condi- logical answers to coal-fired pollution According to company data, emis- ladesh and Sri Lanka, Yang said. ($150 billion), official data showed. “We will promote the integration tions and promoting the system since the early 1990s. However, the sions of sulfur dioxide have been “During the survey, we talked During that period, value-added of advanced computing with indus- from coal-fired power plants to also diversity of China’s coal resources — reduced by 83 percent compared with different sides, including gov- industrial output in Tianjin sur- try applications,” said Ren Jingyang, be applied to industrial boilers,” said including their vast geographical dis- with national emission standards, ernments, think tanks and enter- passed 417 billion yuan, up by 3.5 senior vice-president of Sugon. He Zhang Yongxin, a researcher at the tribution and the complex combustion nitrogen oxides by 50 percent and prises in those countries to find percent year-on-year. noted such computing technology university’s Institute for Thermal features and pollutants — are some of particulate matter by 67 percent. out the real problems,” she said. Specifically, valued-added auto- will have broad application Power Engineering. the hardest problems to tackle. In January 2018, the project earned The CPPCC will continue to mobile manufacturing output and prospects in emerging sectors. Coal is the main source of energy “It requires that the clean system the first prize in the National Tech- carry out international activities specialized equipment manufac- in China. According to the Interna- must adapt to these ‘coal situations’,” nology Invention Award. The Minis- and create new ways of conduct- turing surged by 11.7 percent and Contact the writers at tional Energy Agency, the country Gao said, adding that variations in try of Science and Technology said ing public diplomacy and people- 18.2 percent respectively. [email protected] has been the world’s largest produc- power plants’ output also placed the system had drastically reduced to-people exchanges, according to er of coal since 1985 and produced high demands on the system’s the pollutants emitted by coal-fired its work report delivered during nearly half the world’s coal in 2014. adaptability and reliability. power plants nationwide while the annual two sessions in March. Perfect timing Gao Xiang, a researcher at the insti- After over 20 years of research, boosting their profits by 1.19 billion Events to be held this year by the tute who heads the team working on Gao and his team developed an inte- yuan ($173 million) from 2014 to 2017. CPPCC include the Belt and Road the project, said coal accounts for over grated ultralow emission system “We aim to further lower the Seminar for International Cooper- 90 percent of China’s proven reserves capable of filtering out various types emissions of multiple pollutants ation and the International Semi- of fossil energy resources and, even of pollutants from coal-fired flue gas and also foster more young talent in nar on Peaceful Dialogue between though new energy is weighing in, its quickly and cheaply. this area of study,” Gao said. Different Religions, the report said. 4 dead after sudden mountain torrent in

By HOU LIQIANG Jing'an [email protected]

Four people were confirmed Nanchang dead after a sudden mountain tor- Yichun rent ripped through a hiking route in Yichun city, Jiangxi province, Jiangxi trapping 283 outdoor adventurers Daredevils perform a stunt with a motorcycle and a biplane dur- as rainstorms continued to wreak ing an air show in Anshun, province, on Monday. Six havoc in other regions. stunt aviation teams entertained a local audience at the 2019 At around 2 pm on Sunday, the Guizhou Anshun Huangguoshu Flight Conference, which con- torrent resulted in a sudden rise of CHINA DAILY cluded on Monday. LIU CHAOFU / FOR CHINA DAILY water in the creek in Lyuyangdong valley in Jing’an county and 84 of Online videos and reports from the trapped were reported miss- local media showed that water of ing, the Jiangxi emergency man- more than 1 meter accumulated in Briefly agement department said on some roads in Yibin’s urban areas, Monday. leaving some vehicles inundated. Online video showed that the The wall of a vegetable market in TIBET BEIJING shallow creek had turned into a the city collapsed because of the 26 prehistoric human Chinese-Tibetan book torrential yellow river. After evacu- rainstorm, leaving one person dead activity sites found to promote education ating 199, rescuers searched for a and injuring two others, according whole night for the missing people to the local firefighting department. Researchers have found 26 new A Chinese-Tibetan dictionary of and managed to save 80 of them. The national observatory said on prehistoric sites with evidence of standard modern Chinese will be The other four were found dead, Monday that heavy rainfall was human activities during an expedi- published to promote education in it said. A trapped hiker is rescued in Jing’an county, Jiangxi province, on forecast to hit Basin, tion to the -Tibet Plateau, the country’s Tibetan-inhabited In addition to firefighters, police Monday. SHUAI YUTING / CHINA NEWS SERVICE North China and Northeast China according to the Institute of Tibet- regions. The compilation of the dic- officers and members from civilian on Tuesday. an Plateau Research at the Chinese tionary is underway and will be rescue teams, more than 300 officials The China Meteorological Academy of Sciences. The research completed in two to three years, were also mobilized to comb through after five hours of efforts from res- ple, issued a blue alert, the lowest Administration and the Ministry of covers 16 counties and prefectures according to the Language and Cul- the area to look for the missing peo- cuers. in the country’s four-tier color- Water Resources jointly issued an in the ture Press. The bilingual edition will ple with help from unmanned aerial On Monday, rainstorms contin- coded weather warning system, at alert for mountain torrents in the spanning around 8,000 square be based on the original dictionary vehicles, it added. ued in many areas across the coun- 8 am on Monday, forecasting pre- 24 hours after 8 pm on Monday, kilometers. Thirteen of the 26 are of standard modern Chinese. It will Separately on Sunday, 118 tour- try. The torrents resulted in floods cipitation of up to 10 centimeters warning that there is a high possi- of great significance for archaeo- promote the use of the official lan- ists who were visiting Mingyue in many of the cities in Sichuan in the next three hours. The bility that the disaster will hit the logical studies, according to the guage and the development of edu- Mountain, a tourist attraction also province, forcing the closure of at authority upgraded the alert to an southeastern part of Sichuan, west- researchers. The teams will also cation in Tibetan-populated areas, in Yichun, were trapped after tor- least six highway sections there. orange one, the second highest, in ern part of Guizhou province, and conduct studies on the 1,442 pieces the publishing house said. rents resulted in a landslide and The metrological authority of Yi- the afternoon, saying the rainfall the northeastern and western parts of stoneware found at the sites. XINHUA debris flow. All of them were saved bin city in the province, for exam- would last until Tuesday. of province.