On December 7, 2021, Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) issued Letter on supporting Harbin City in setting up national new-gen AI (Artificial Intelligence) innovation development experimental zone (hereinafter referred to as “the Letter”) in response to an application by the Heilongjiang provincial government. Letter specifies that Harbin city should

• Be guided by national strategies and by Harbin's needs, developing policies for comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast industrial base
• Use Harbin's science and education resources to
• develop a good foundation for international cooperation
• strengthen AI frontier theory
• strengthen R&D in key core technologies
• strengthen application research in intelligent agriculture, intelligent manufacturing and other strategic fields
• Deepen the reform of institutional mechanisms and build an efficient ecology for AI innovation
• carry out policy experiments on AI
• establish new mechanisms for cooperation between provinces, cities and universities
• establish new platforms for cooperation between industry, academia and research
• establish new models for inter-regional cooperation
• improve the system of ethical norms and regulations on AI

The Letter is in line with 

• ‘Plan for developing new-generation artificial intelligence’ 
• 'Guidelines for establishment of setting up next-gen AI experimental zone'

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