Day: July 2, 2024

Hong Kong, July 2, 2024 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/ — A launching ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland was held in Victoria Park of Hong Kong on June 29, kicking off a series of celebration activities organized by the Hong Kong Celebrations Association.

The exhibition on the culture of the Mausoleum of Huangdi attracted a large number of Hong Kong citizens, which offers them a glimpse into the northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, where the mausoleum is located, and enables them to feel the charm of excellent traditional Chinese culture. The administrative committee of Huangdi Mausoleum cultural park and the government of Huangling County organized a cultural promotion event on June 30 at the Grand Center in Hong Kong.

Huangdi, also known as the Yellow Emperor, blazed the trail and laid the foundation of the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation. He is considered the progenitor of Chinese culture. According to “Records of the Grand Historian,” after Huangdi’s passing, he was buried in Qiaoshan Mountain. The Mausoleum of Huangdi is located at the peak of Qiaoshan Mountain in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province.

The Mausoleum of Huangdi is a spiritual symbol of Chinese civilization, revered by Chinese both at home and abroad. It serves as a sacred place for the Chinese diaspora worldwide to reconnect with their roots and honor their ancestors.

The cultural exhibition covers an area of over 200 square meters. The exhibition focuses on the theme of Huangdi and the culture surrounding his mausoleum. It includes various sections such as thematic displays with pictures and texts, exhibitions of inscriptions and stone carvings, and showcases of black pottery artworks.

The exhibition aims to introduce the remarkable achievements of Huangdi, showcase the historical rituals and ceremonies dedicated to him throughout different periods, and tell the story of the inheritance of Chinese civilization. Furthermore, it seeks to promote cultural tourism related to the Mausoleum of Huangdi.

In the exhibition, many precious cultural elements of the Mausoleum of Huangdi, such as the replicas of the Xuanyuan Hall, the statue of Huangdi, the cypress tree planted by Huangdi himself, and the inscriptions in the mausoleum, appear in Victoria Park. With the main focus on inheriting the Huangdi culture and keeping the Chinese roots culture alive, this immersive exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to experience Chinese culture and trace their cultural heritage.

The exhibition hall also features a variety of interactive experiences, allowing visitors to participate in activities such as seeking blessing, tracing the origins of family names, hanging wishing plaques on the cypress tree planted by Huangdi, ink rubbings, and collecting stamps.

Calligraphy artists and intangible cultural heritage inheritors from Huangling County are invited to write calligraphy on site and create traditional Huangling paper-cutting and dough flower artworks, allowing Hong Kong citizens to personally experience the profound traditional culture and foster a sense of cultural kinship.

In a bid to showcase China in various perspectives, this year’s celebration campaign has featured the participation of various provinces and cities in China, as well as relevant organizations and enterprises, which will present a panoramic display of the beautiful vision of China’s modernization and to celebrate the joy of the return to the motherland. The exhibition will run for four days until July 2.

Through exhibitions, interactive experiences of intangible cultural heritage, and cultural promotions, the event showcased the profound cultural heritage of Huangdi and the splendid image of Shaanxi, aiming to enhance cultural exchanges and tourism partnership between Hong Kong and Shaanxi, and further expand the scope of cooperation and communication between the two places.

Source: The Administrative Committee of Huangdi Mausoleum Cultural Park

BEIJING, July 2, 2024 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/– On June 29, the AI Town Innovation Conference of Beijing E-Town was held at the National Industrial Park for Information Technology Application and Innovation, releasing Beijing E-Town’s development plan of building itself into an AI-based town.

At the conference, which was held by Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee, E-Town’s top ten AI applied scenarios and results were released in series, the Yizhi government affair large-model service platform was launched, and Beijing AI Application Scenario Institute (BAIASI) and Beijing AI Native Industry Acceleration Platform (BAINIAP) were unveiled.

Beijing E-Town has focused on building itself into an AI town, advancing the deep integration of AI technology with the development of E-Town New Town as well as industrial upgrading and transformation. It has made efforts to introduce technological innovation through scenario applications, establish city-level AI engineering test platforms, and better balance development with safety. It has explored the path mechanism of AI empowering production and lifestyle, pioneered the trial in special industries, high-risk positions, and repetitive labor segments, and boosted the incubation, application and empowerment of AI technology across the district.

Serving as a pioneer in the capital’s high-quality development, a ballast of the capital’s real economy and a leading site for high-end, sophisticated and cutting-edge technology sectors, Beijing E-Town has nearly 100,000 business entities and attracted 157 projects invested by 102 global 500 enterprises, covering a wide variety of industrial scenarios like biomedicine, automobile manufacturing, commercial space and intelligent manufacturing. By amassing a wide range of high-quality data in vertical fields, the area has enjoyed exceptional AI application advantages, functioning as the best test ground for large AI models and industry vertical models.

E-Town has selected the first batch of AI benchmarking application scenarios, involving ten fields such as medical and health care, transport & travel, car cockpit, humanoid robots, new retail, governmental services, industrial design, drug R&D, energy conservation and carbon reduction, and news & media. In particular, AI plus medical and health care scenarios are applied to support developing AI training centers for medical and health care. E-Town has partnered with authoritative institutions to build high-quality health data zones to promote disease diagnosis & treatment application. Across the district, public health institutions have been accessible as smart medical pilot sites to support large-model enterprises in screening quality solutions around the smart triage, auxiliary diagnosis & treatment and digital doctors.

“We welcome innovation entities specializing in AI chips, large basic models, industry applications and data governance to participate in developing Beijing E-Town’s AI demonstration application scenarios.” The person in charge of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area management committee issued a recruitment announcement and offered an olive branch to global enterprises in the release session, hoping that through the ten benchmarking application scenarios, a number of pioneering, replicable and promotional E-Town solutions would be offered to drive the development of the AI town.

The unveiling of BAIASI and BAINIAP has provided an underpinning for expediting the AI industry aggregation and the application of key industry scenarios. The development area would also offer all-round support to AI enterprises and talents, establish venture capital funds, industry funds and 10-billion-yuan special funds, and build a full-chain investment platform for businesses throughout the entire growth cycle.

Yizhi, the city’s first large-model service platform for government affairs, was officially launched. This new-generation data infrastructure of Beijing E-Town adopts the new architecture of one portal, three centers and three engines, featuring multi-model management, knowledge base operation, agent convergence, one-stop supervision, plug-in call, and localized adaptation. Yizhi has supported E-Town’s departments applying the large-model technology in digital transformation, which has been implemented in eight sub-scenarios.

Source: Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee