China News Service, Xuzhou, October 30 (Liu Lin, Gu Hua, Zhu Zi) On October 30, the closing ceremony of the 15th China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition "AI + Construction Machinery" Professional Competition was held in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. As the first national-level "AI+Construction Machinery" industry mass entrepreneurship event, the "AI+Construction Machinery" initiative was released at the event, inviting global innovators, industries and ecological partners to advocate the use of artificial intelligence to empower the transformation and upgrading of the construction machinery industry, and jointly draw a new industrial picture of "Green Intelligence for a Better World".
Li Wenlei, deputy chief engineer of the Torch Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the "AI+ Engineering Machinery" professional competition is a special event focusing on the new generation of information technology. The event landed in Xuzhou, relying on the local complete construction machinery industry ecology, promoting the deep integration of the Torch innovation and entrepreneurship concept with the profound industrial heritage of Xuzhou Manufacturing, and injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of artificial intelligence-empowered construction machinery.
Song Zhiming, vice president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, believes that this competition is a vivid practice of the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. The industry is currently in a critical window period for transformation and upgrading. Only by clearing up the "AI + equipment" integration blocking points can we seize the opportunity for industrial change. The competition builds a competitive docking platform for high-quality scientific and technological innovation projects, and also reserves innovative resources for the construction machinery industry chain.
On October 29, the competition completed the finals and decided the awards. The award ceremony was held on the morning of the 30th. Academician Ren Luquan, director of the competition review committee, made professional comments on the results of the competition and pointed out the direction for the long-term development of the competition. Five award-winning teams displayed their scientific and technological achievements on site, six unveiling teams reached industrial cooperation, and four high-quality projects were implemented and transformed, transforming innovative solutions on the field into industrial solutions.
Yu Haibin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Zuo Mingjian, academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, delivered keynote speeches. Yu Haibin shared cutting-edge results with the title "World Model Driven and Industrial Embodied Intelligence"; Zuo Mingjian interpreted the development direction of industrial intelligence around "Intelligent Operation and Maintenance: The Future of AI-Driven Industrial Equipment Health Management".
This professional competition was launched on August 13. It is soliciting projects from universities, scientific research institutions, global customers, supply chain partners, and scientific and technological enterprises at home and abroad. It has attracted the participation of more than 760 universities and enterprises from more than 20 countries and regions, including Germany, the United Kingdom, and Australia. A total of more than 2,750 teams have registered, and more than 1,600 entries have been collected.
