Shanghai is looking to become China's hot spot for AI and wants to expand the scale of the industry in the city to more than 100 billion yuan （$20.5 billion） by 2020, according to a new municipal plan. The fast-growing AI industry is regarded as a new growth engine for Shanghai, a city with special advantages in big database, industrial foundation and sufficient talents from universities and institutions. （Shanghai aiming to be China's AI hub, by The Straits Times）
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Shanghai tops the cities in the world in terms of innovative capabilities, due to the importance attached by the government to IPR protection. In future, the international status for Shanghai would be further elevated by vigorously developing AI area.
（Editor Che Xingming）
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