{"id":57626,"date":"2017-05-23T03:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/chinas-belt-and-road-infrastructure-plan-also-includes-science"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:14","slug":"chinas-belt-and-road-infrastructure-plan-also-includes-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/chinas-belt-and-road-infrastructure-plan-also-includes-science","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s belt and road infrastructure plan also includes science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-belt-and-road-infrastructure-plan-also-includes-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is also planning to use the initiative to flex its scientific and engineering muscles, officials made clear at a 2-day Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation that ended yesterday in Beijing. \u201cInnovation is an important force powering development,\u201d Xi said in a speech to the opening session of the forum. And so the initiative will include technical cooperation in fields including artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, and smart cities. He also mentioned the need to pursue economic growth that is in line with sustainable development goals, and that rests on environmentally friendly approaches.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/china-s-belt-and-road-infrastructure-plan-also-includes-science\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/china-s-belt-and-road...es-science<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is also planning to use the initiative to flex its scientific and engineering muscles, officials made clear at a 2-day Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation that ended yesterday in Beijing. \u201cInnovation is an important force powering development,\u201d Xi said in a speech to the opening session of the forum. And so the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38,4,1617,6,224,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-science","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57649,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57626\/revisions\/57649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}