Jointly organized by China Daily and the Information Office of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, the 14th Vision China event, titled "Intelligence New Era: Innovation, Energization and Ecology", was broadcast to a global audience on Tuesday night. It coincided with the ongoing Fourth World Intelligence Congress, an online event that started the same day and runs through Wednesday in Tianjin.

The city's future development relies on intelligent technology, said Chen Zhemin, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Tianjin Municipal Committee and head of the committee's Publicity Department, who also underlined "Tianjin has given great importance to intelligent manufacturing and AI, which play a leading role in socioeconomic development."

According to Chen, the city has transformed and upgraded all factors in the whole process in the industrial chain and the life cycle of the manufacturing industry. It has completed 911 intelligent transformation projects and cooperated with enterprises to sign 200 cooperation agreements, with a total investment of 261 billion yuan ($36.9 billion).