{"id":73376,"date":"2017-10-19T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/china-aims-to-outspend-the-world-in-artificial-intelligence-and-xi-jinping-just-green-lit-the-plan"},"modified":"2017-10-19T02:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:42:33","slug":"china-aims-to-outspend-the-world-in-artificial-intelligence-and-xi-jinping-just-green-lit-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/china-aims-to-outspend-the-world-in-artificial-intelligence-and-xi-jinping-just-green-lit-the-plan","title":{"rendered":"China aims to outspend the world in artificial intelligence, and Xi Jinping just green lit the plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-aims-to-outspend-the-world-in-artificial-intelligence-and-xi-jinping-just-green-lit-the-plan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of technology in the leader\u2019s most important address in an official imprimatur that underscores the continued push by China\u2019s top leaders to identify new pillars for an economy struggling to maintain its rapid growth amid overcapacity and rising debt.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>China\u2019s State Council laid out goals in July to build a domestic artificial intelligence industry worth nearly US$150 billion in the next few years, and to make the country a \u201cinnovation centre for AI\u201d by 2030. Xi\u2019s speech gave the official imprimatur to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 18 October, 2017, 6:56pm.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED : Wednesday, 18 October, 2017, 11:42pm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/2115935\/chinas-xi-jinping-highlights-ai-big-data-and-shared-economy\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/2115935\/...ed-economy<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inclusion of technology in the leader\u2019s most important address in an official imprimatur that underscores the continued push by China\u2019s top leaders to identify new pillars for an economy struggling to maintain its rapid growth amid overcapacity and rising debt. China\u2019s State Council laid out goals in July to build a domestic artificial intelligence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73376","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=73376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}