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China's Computing Ambitions

By Elliott Zaagman
Communications of the ACM, November 2018, Vol. 61 No. 11, Pages 40-41
10.1145/3239534
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Made in China 2025, illustration — Credit: Washington Post

China plans to become the world's high-tech leader, and quickly. In 2015, the Chinese government's State Council approved "Made in China 2025," an initiative designed to position China as a world leader in fields such as robotics, aviation, advanced information technology, and new-energy vehicles in less than a decade. In support of this governmental initiative, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a three-year action plan^a to drive growth in areas including smart drones, facial recognition, AI-supported medical diagnosis, speech recognition, and language translation. If successful, the initiative would grow China's AI industry^b to a size of $150 billion by 2020, approximately 100 times its size in 2016. As China pushes AI forward, here are a few names, trends, and technologies to watch.

Figure. Facial recognition technology used in Shenzhen, China, identifies jaywalkers and automatically issues fines by text.

Facial Recognition and Surveillance

Earlier this year, an Alibabaled funding of $600M made SenseTime the world's most valuable startup^c at a valuation of $4.5B. SenseTime specializes in facial recognition technology with applications including payment verification^d and automated checkout.^e

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