With next-generation artificial intelligence booming around the world, the technology will play a bigger role in fueling industrial upgrade, carbon reduction and high-quality development in China, speakers said at the 19th Vision China event.

Jointly organized by China Daily and the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Tianjin Municipal Committee, the event, titled "New Era of Intelligence: Empowering New Development, Fostering New Pattern", was broadcast online to a global audience on Thursday night. It coincided with the ongoing 5th World Intelligence Congress, an event that started on the same day and runs until Sunday in Tianjin.