On May 23, the 2026 Global Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (GAITC2026), hosted by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), opened at the Academic Exchange Center of Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City. Top scientists, industry experts, technology pioneers, corporate executives, and young talents from home and abroad gathered to discuss cutting-edge breakthroughs and industrial transformations in artificial intelligence, jointly charting a new blueprint for the development of the intelligent era.

Liu Fei, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee; Weng Qiwen, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the SME Development Promotion Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; and Dai Qionghai, President of CAAI, Dean and Professor of the School of Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, and Director of the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, delivered addresses at the conference. Liu Ying, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee and Secretary of the CPC Yuhang District Committee, presided over the opening ceremony.

On behalf of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee and the Hangzhou Municipal Government, Liu Fei, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, extended congratulations on the convening of the conference and expressed gratitude to all the guests. He stated that Hangzhou will strive to build a first-class innovation ecosystem, seize the opportunity to jointly develop the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Technology Innovation Center, and continuously refine policies on talent cultivation and attraction, enterprise incubation, integration and collaboration efficiency, and technology finance and intellectual property protection, in line with the goals of becoming the "best soil for talent growth," the "best cradle for enterprise development," the "highest quality and efficiency for integrated collaboration," and the "most tangible policy services," thereby creating a "slightly superior appeal" to both enterprises and talent.

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