Tianjin eyeing AI, improved business climate

Tianjin is boosting the use of artificial intelligence and slashing the cost of doing business amid efforts to transform itself from a heavy industrial center into an entrepreneurial city, senior municipal officials said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a panel discussion of the Government Work Report during the ongoing session of the 13th National People's Congress, Li Hongzhong, Tianjin's Party chief, said the central leadership's flagship development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster has brought about huge opportunities for his city.

The plan - disclosed in 2015 to relieve Beijing of nongovernmental functions and to address the capital's woes including traffic jams and pollution - is accelerating the flow of production across the entire region, said Li, who is also a member of the Party's political bureau.