China Q&A | From medical resources allocation to smart transportation, how will AI benefit China's high-quality development?

The resolution adopted by the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization at its third plenary session has said that China will further reform the medical and healthcare systems. It requires the country do more to increase the availability of quality medical resources and ensure that such resources are channeled toward the community level and more evenly distributed among regions. The resolution also emphasized the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), noting that China will improve the mechanisms for developing and managing generative artificial intelligence, as well as strengthening the institutional oversight systems to ensure the safety of AI.

As a professor at University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Fausto Giunchiglia pays close attentions to the session. Raising questions on China's high-quality development, he hopes to understand how will the country promotes the allocation of medical resources and advance urban planning.

In response to the questions, Yin Ximing, associate researcher at the School of Management in Beijing Institute of Technology, said that as an advanced technology, AI will substantially reduce cost of disease prediagnosis and medical treatment at many levels. AI will also enabled  one-stop service for medical treatment and reimbursement, thereby greatly improving the medical resources allocation and treatment efficiency at primary level. He also pointed out that AI will have many applications on the building smart cities and transportation planning. (Xue Lingqiao and Chen Tianhao)