AI City Industry Map: Leading the way in the north, Shanghai and Shenzhen, followed by Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui

Source: Modern Express

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Since the beginning of this year, the generative artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT, with its excellent understanding and logical ability, has set off a wave of technological waves in the field of artificial intelligence and has become the hottest track in the current industrial economy. In fact, the domestic artificial intelligence industry has already entered the fast lane, and many cities have taken the lead in the field of AI segmentation.

On July 24, Qichacha Big Data Research Institute released the “China AI Innovation City Competitiveness Panoramic Report”, and on June 25 not long ago, “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Annual Report (2022-2023)” " China Urban Artificial Intelligence Development Index Report (2022-2023)" was released at the 2023 Global Artificial Intelligence Product Application Expo; at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference that opened on July 6, the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information of China also released “2022 Global Artificial Intelligence Smart Innovation Index Report”.

Analysis reports have been released one after another, providing a basis for us to see the development of AI in various cities. By sorting out these reports, the reporter of Modern Express outlined the current industrial map of AI cities. Which Chinese AI city is stronger? Where is the most dynamic?

AI city competition: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen lead, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui catch up

Who is the leader on the road to AI’s hurricane?

Among the TOP20 comprehensive strength cities in my country’s artificial intelligence industry released by Qichacha, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are firmly in the top three. The top ten are Hangzhou, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hefei, Chengdu, and Wuhan. In addition, Qingdao, Tianjin, Xiamen, Jinan, Ningbo, Xi’an, Changsha, Zhuhai, Wuxi, and Dongguan ranked eleventh to twentieth respectively.

In the “China Urban Artificial Intelligence Development Index Report (2022-2023)”, the top ten cities are Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Hefei, Tianjin, and Qingdao.

**Comprehensive of these two reports, it can be seen that the current AI industry structure is “leading in the north, Shanghai and Shenzhen, followed by Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui”. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, represented by Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Hefei, Ningbo, and Wuxi, are catching up. In addition, Guangzhou also has its own characteristics in the development of the artificial intelligence industry. **

To evaluate the development of the artificial intelligence industry, it is necessary to refer to multiple dimensions.

Take the statistical data of the “China Urban Artificial Intelligence Development Index Report (2022-2023)” as an example: From the perspective of industrial distribution, Beijing ranks first with 3,500 artificial intelligence companies, Shanghai and Shenzhen rank second and third respectively , Artificial intelligence companies are basically distributed in coastal cities; from the perspective of innovation vitality, there are 591 listed companies in the field of artificial intelligence, and 609 specialized and new companies. Among them, Beijing has the largest number of authorized invention patents, exceeding 100,000; followed by Shenzhen, with 62,794; and Shanghai third, with 25,037.

**From the perspective of urban AI development vitality, it is the Yangtze River Delta, of which Nanjing is the most “hot”. **

According to the statistics of China Business News’ new first-line industry database, a total of about 80,000 enterprises have been screened out among key enterprises such as listed enterprises, high-tech enterprises, and small and medium-sized technology enterprises in the country, and their increment and growth rate are among the top in the country. The top 10 cities are Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai, Wuxi and Hefei, all of which are from the Yangtze River Delta.

Bu Anxun, president of the Nanjing Enterprise Digital Transformation Research Association, said in an interview with a reporter from Modern Express that the outstanding performance of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other regions is not surprising. “Digitalization has roughly gone through three stages: informatization stage, digitization stage, and intelligentization stage. What we are currently experiencing is the intelligentization stage, and Beijing has laid out very early in this stage, and its development level has actually far surpassed the second place. , the third place.”

“The elements of a city’s development of the artificial intelligence industry, we now generally summarize it as the ‘old three’ and the ‘new three’.” The “old three” are people, money, and things, and the “new three” are data and algorithms , computing power. Bu Anxun believes that these top-ranked cities basically have these major elements.

On the whole, artificial intelligence-related enterprises are mainly concentrated in first-tier and new first-tier high-energy cities. The talent density and diversified production and living ecological models of high-energy cities provide important R&D resources and applications for the development of innovative industries such as artificial intelligence. Scenes.

The performance of the three cities in Jiangsu is remarkable Expert: AI+ industrial clusters should be formed as soon as possible

Jiangsu is one of the early provinces to lay out the artificial intelligence industry. As of 2022, the province has nearly 1,000 artificial intelligence-related enterprises, driving the output value of related industries to exceed 100 billion yuan, covering intelligent software, intelligent robots, intelligent sensors, and intelligent manufacturing. and many other fields.

In the research report selected by the reporter this time, Suzhou, Nanjing, and Wuxi are all on the list, especially Suzhou and Nanjing have been ranked among the first echelons, showing great growth potential.

The “China Urban Artificial Intelligence Development Index Report (2022-2023)” pointed out that since Suzhou was approved to build a new generation of artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone in 2021, the construction of artificial intelligence industry innovation clusters and application empowerment have achieved remarkable results. The scale of artificial intelligence-related industries has reached 125 billion yuan, and the average growth rate of output value in the past three years has reached 22.7%.

As the only city in the province that has been approved as a “National Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Application Pioneering Zone”, Nanjing’s development level ranks first in the country, and its comprehensive development level ranks among the top 10 in the country. The latest data shows that in 2023, there will be 540 enterprises above designated size in the Nanjing artificial intelligence industry cluster, an increase of 62 from 2022. In the first quarter, the operating income will be 44.708 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.7%.

Zhu Qiaoming, a professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology at Soochow University, told the Modern Express reporter that **Suzhou, Nanjing and Wuxi are all important cities for the development of Jiangsu’s artificial intelligence industry, and they each have different characteristics and advantages. ** “Wuxi is the birthplace and one of the main production bases of China’s integrated circuit industry. It is also the only national sensor network innovation demonstration zone in the country. The artificial intelligence industry has a certain foundation in Wuxi.” Zhu Qiaoming believes that although Wuxi’s artificial intelligence industry is still In the initial stage, there is still a certain gap compared with Suzhou and Nanjing, but according to the research data, its comprehensive growth potential is huge.

Bu Anxun pointed out that although the three cities in Jiangsu are not small in terms of total quantity and rank high, we still need to clearly recognize Jiangsu’s shortcomings in the artificial intelligence industry. ** “Being the benchmark of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and developing the artificial intelligence industry, Jiangsu needs to make efforts in terms of core technology, leading talents, and leading enterprises.”**

**Bu Anxun believes that if it wants to have differentiated competition with “North, Shanghai and Shenzhen”, Jiangsu can also make efforts from three aspects. ** “The first is to create individual champions, such as seizing advantages in smart grids and smart IoT. The second is to let artificial intelligence empower industrial clusters.” Bu Anxun further explained that Jiangsu has 10 national advanced manufacturing clusters, which are Very prominent advantages, so Jiangsu should form an “AI + industrial cluster” model. In addition, Jiangsu has perfect social governance and high public quality. Bu Anxun believes that in terms of application scenarios, Jiangsu should expand to public utilities and government services to build a modern smart city.

Source: Modern Express+

Reporter: Long Qiuli

Edit: Mu Mu