"001" and "One Chess Game" Artificial Intelligence | Shanghai | One Week

After the Third Plenary Session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee, Shanghai immediately held the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the Quarterly Work Conference of the Municipal Party Committee - several heavyweight events and meetings last week, reaffirming the direction of the city's leap forward.

On July 7th, a major focus of the quarterly work meeting of the Municipal Party Committee was to further deploy and emphasize the implementation of the spirit of the Municipal Party Committee Plenary Session. At the meeting, it was requested that cadres at all levels in Shanghai should use practical energy and a pioneering spirit to promote the transformation of the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee into specific measures and practical actions to complete various work tasks in the second half of the year with high quality.

Cadres at all levels are also required to further strengthen their confidence, set goals, gather the power of reform, and demonstrate the effectiveness of development.

The Opinions of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China on Deepening the Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Deepening High-level Reform and Opening-up and Promoting High-quality Development, which was reviewed and approved by the Plenary Session of the Municipal Party Committee, is a concrete action to answer the fundamental question of "what kind of Shanghai to build and how to build Shanghai". The most important development logic is outlined.

At the quarterly work meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Chen Jining, the Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, deeply explained that the "four focuses" have clarified the political and ideological stance of Shanghai's development. The "Five Centers" and the socialist modernization international metropolis with global influence are the overall positioning of Shanghai city;

"We must deeply understand and, with a high sense of mission and responsibility, strive to be the vanguard of reform and opening up and the pioneer of innovative development on the new journey of modernization.".

This sense of mission and responsibility should be reflected not only in macro perspective and strategic thinking, but also in the effectiveness of implementation. The opinions of the plenary session have made strategic arrangements for Shanghai to deepen high-level reform and opening up and promote high-quality development, and have also put forward clear requirements for implementation. At the quarterly work meeting, it was repeatedly reiterated that there was a systematic and pragmatic approach. "This time, the emphasis is placed on the systematic, holistic, and collaborative nature of reform and opening up. In implementation, it is necessary to strengthen collaborative cooperation, move forward, and work together to amplify and deepen the effects of reform."

At the plenary session of the Municipal Party Committee, it was emphasized that the whole city should establish a sense of "one game of chess". This awareness needs to be reflected at various levels such as between departments, departments, regions, government and enterprises, policies, etc. In summary, it is necessary to form the greatest possible synergy.

One agenda item of the quarterly work meeting of the Municipal Party Committee is to comment on the phased work reports of relevant districts and departments. After commenting one by one, Chen Jining talked about the "block by block relationship" - regions and departments are one and two sides of the overall work. Departments should introduce good policies, strengthen overall coordination, and focus on major projects; The region should focus on implementation and timely feedback of needs.

The blocks should be closely integrated and cooperate with each other, strengthen communication and seamless connection, and actively break down some barriers and concerns. The meeting emphasized that municipal functional departments should not only supervise and assess, but also provide proactive services and think from different perspectives, actively helping each district solve complex problems.

At the same time, the policies and resources issued by various departments should also be effectively coordinated to enhance overall efficiency and improve utilization efficiency. Financial investment in science and technology is required to deepen the coordination and linkage mechanism, and improve the effectiveness of investment. At the meeting, it was explicitly requested that investment funds scattered across multiple departments should strengthen coordination and collaboration to effectively improve performance.

Another key issue is the effectiveness of the implementation process - after policy formulation, it is important to implement it. Whether it can be implemented and produce practical results not only tests the level of execution, but also tests the design ability of the decision-making and design ends, to see if it is "supply and demand compatible". This is also the essence of emphasizing system collaboration.

At the meeting, it was specifically pointed out that in the second half of the year, we should focus on releasing the dividends of reform and opening up, and vigorously implement them. This process should strengthen tracking and evaluation, timely respond to the needs of enterprises in the implementation of policies, and timely eliminate bottlenecks.

"Many policies have been introduced now, and the key is to take effect, so that enterprises can understand, understand, and use them, and enjoy the policy effects."

When discussing the implementation of the Opinion, Chen Jining emphasized the need to highlight the "practical" orientation. In the process of policy implementation, it is necessary to form rich enterprise cases and larger scale effects. Not only should there be typical and innovative cases from 0 to 1, but also amplification and promotion from 1 to 100.

After the formation of the pioneering and leading "001" case, not only can it not be satisfied with "001", but there should also be sufficient vigilance and reflection to see if the policy design truly responds to actual needs. To achieve replicability and promotion, "we must always face the enterprise, go deep into the front line, discover real needs, solve real problems, and truly reflect the reform effect on the enterprise's sense of gain."

For Shanghai, whether it is the current stable economic growth, promoting the transformation and upgrading of industrial and spatial structures, or focusing on long-term grasping of new opportunities and new tracks, it is necessary to make sufficient efforts in this "real" word, reflecting strong action, execution, and penetration. At the same time, we must also prove our determination and foresight through pragmatic breakthroughs.

At the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategy Consulting Expert Meeting before the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Chen Jining stated that Shanghai must maintain strategic composure, focus on long-term development, strengthen forward thinking and judgment, deepen basic research, improve basic capabilities, do a good job in algorithm innovation, computing power construction, and data collection, accelerate the construction of an autonomous intelligent computing ecosystem, and concentrate on developing large models of artificial intelligence.

At present, the development of artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. For Shanghai, whether it can grasp the "wind" ultimately depends on whether it understands the technical logic, market logic, and governance logic behind it, promotes it with practical thinking, planning, and measures, and accepts the test of the market and society.

At the opening ceremony of the conference on the second day, Chen Jining outlined the vision of building an artificial intelligence "Shanghai highland" in this city, and stated that Shanghai should adhere to the combination of long-term and agile development, establish a long-term vision, maintain strategic composure, focus on laying a foundation and promoting long-term strategic tasks, continuously improve the agility of action, establish a decision-making mechanism that adapts to technological and industrial changes, and timely optimize the focus and development direction of tackling challenges.

At the same time, we must adhere to the unity of breakthroughs in key technologies and building an open ecosystem, mobilize the strength of the whole city, gather resources from all parties, increase support, encourage various forms of algorithm innovation, chip research and development, computing power improvement, and corpus construction. Through more effective policy guidance, open up more application scenarios, promote collaborative interaction among innovation entities, strengthen the cultivation of enterprise innovation ecology, and build competitive industrial clusters.

The above ideas are not only applicable to the field of artificial intelligence. For the entire city, at the new starting point of high-level reform and opening up and high-quality development, aiming for direction, maintaining composure, and seeking practical results are the fundamental principles to follow.