Baidu and Chongqing Sign Strategic Partnership to Accelerate the Municipality’s Intelligent Transformation Using AI
August 27 2019 - 6:59AM
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) announced a strategic partnership with
the Chongqing municipal government on Sunday to collaborate in
areas including autonomous driving, smart cities, smart government
and blockchain solutions. The partnership will help the most
populous municipality in China become a benchmark in the
"Chengdu-Chongqing city cluster" in driving the intelligent
transformation of industries.
"Chongqing is a city with an innovative spirit,
and a national front-runner when it comes to promoting the
comprehensive integration of AI and big data into the economy, as
well as intelligent transformation and industrial upgrading,” Robin
Li, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, said.
“As an AI company, Baidu has been committed to
empowering all walks of life through AI. We believe that deepening
cooperation between Baidu and Chongqing will accelerate
technological innovation and applications in areas closely linked
to people's everyday lives and Chongqing will become an intelligent
and innovative mountain city attracting more worldwide attention,”
he added.
Under the strategic collaboration, Chongqing and
Baidu will work together in the following areas to accelerate the
intelligent development of the municipality:
Autonomous Driving Chongqing
will support Baidu to build an autonomous driving innovation center
for Western China. Leveraging the technological strengths of
Baidu’s Apollo autonomous driving platform and its ecosystem, the
two sides will support research and development, as well as the
implementation of related technologies, in order to accelerate the
technological advancement and industrial upgrading of Chongqing’s
automotive industry and urban traffic management.
With support from both the Yongchuan district government of
Chongqing and the Chongqing Academy of Metrology and Quality
Inspection, Baidu will help Chongqing build a test base for an
autonomous driving project for Western China. Making use of the
transportation network in the district and various trial ride
scenarios, the project aims to build a demonstration environment
for autonomous driving and intelligent vehicle infrastructure
systems. Passenger trial rides for Baidu’s Apollo robotaxi will be
carried out on open roads under the project, which will also
introduce information technology products and intelligent
transportation services.
In the future, the Chongqing municipal government will also
launch policies to help businesses and projects open up a sizable
road network and offer license plates for autonomous vehicles
testing.
Baidu will also set up an Apollo autonomous
driving test and operation center in Yongchuan district, aiming to
accelerate the implementation and operation of robotaxis, as well
as bring the autonomous driving experience to Chongqing’s
citizens.
At the Smart China Expo, which kicked off in
Chongqing on Monday, Baidu’s autonomous driving shuttle bus Apolong
2.0 made its debut transporting visitors. Compared with the
previous version, Apolong 2.0 has improved performance and a more
powerful configuration, enabling Chongqing citizens and visitors to
experience cutting-edge autonomous driving services.
Smart City Leveraging its
advantages in AI, blockchain and big data, Baidu will develop a
comprehensive smart AI city demonstration project in Chongqing with
offerings including autonomous valet parking, smart court systems
and intelligent meteorology by using its technologies to power an
urban brain, the use of maps and the energy sector.
Intelligent Government Services
Through the use of Baidu’s Smart Mini Program platform, Baijiahao
and AI customer services, Chongqing will promote the opening of
government data resources and improvements to the efficiency of
online government services. The open source technology of Smart
Mini Program will support Chongqing’s government app to become the
first government service app in the country capable of running a
smart mini program.
Blockchain In terms of
blockchain applications, Baidu will work with local providers to
offer healthcare blockchain solutions in Yuzhong district,
Chongqing.
In addition, the municipality will encourage
collaboration between local companies and Baidu in areas including
smart manufacturing, supporting a more extensive use of Baidu’s
deep learning platform PaddlePaddle. Baidu will also develop its AI
technology ecosystem and help foster talent in Chongqing.
About Baidu Baidu, Inc. is the
leading Chinese language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to
make the complicated world simpler for users and enterprises
through technology. Baidu’s ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select
Market under the symbol “BIDU.” Currently, ten ADSs represent one
Class A ordinary share.
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