AI to usher in brand new age By CHENG YU | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-21 09:30 Share CLOSE The fifth World Intelligent Congress began on Thursday in Tianjin. The event features a new era of intelligence that facilitates new developments. [Photo by Jia Lei/For China Daily] China will enter a new era with the further development of artificial intelligence technologies and blossoming industrial applications, said an industry insider on Thursday. "AI will first play a key role in helping industries to achieve intelligent production and enable green and low-carbon development to occur faster," said Wang Yu, research fellow at the College of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University.