- President Xi Jinping highlighted China’s achievements in artificial intelligence and the chip industry in a New Year’s Eve speech, calling for more confidence in the country’s development path.
- Xi underscored the role of innovation in his government’s aim for high-quality economic development, citing advancements in areas such as humanoid robots, drones, aerospace, and defense.
- Xi said China has “overcome numerous difficulties and challenges” to meet its targets, and that its economic, technological, and national defense capabilities have “risen to new heights”.
President Xi Jinping highlighted China’s achievements in artificial intelligence and the chip industry in a triumphant New Year’s Eve speech as he called for more confidence in the country’s development path in the year ahead.
“China has become one of the world’s fastest-rising economies in terms of innovative capacity,” he declared in a televised address on Wednesday beamed to the nation’s 1.4 billion people, in which he touted China’s achievements in large AI models and breakthroughs in chip research and development.