Push to integrate AI and big data with real economy accelerated

China is accelerating its push to further integrate artificial intelligence and big data with the real economy to foster high-quality development, said an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

More efforts should be made to make breakthroughs in core AI technologies, promote the deep integration of AI and the manufacturing sector, build up AI industrial clusters and establish basic supporting platforms as well as service systems for the AI industry, according to Wang Xinzhe, chief economist at the ministry.

"Buoyed by the blossoming of big data and internet technology, China's AI sector has embarked on a development fast track. We will strive to bring the development of the AI industry to a new high," Wang said on Tuesday at a State Council Information Office news conference in Beijing.