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Updated: Dec 18, 2019 China Daily Global Print
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Shenzhen launched the China Hi-Tech Fair, or CHTF, in 1999. Since then, the fair has become one of the most influential technological expos in China.

It has been working as an efficient platform to bring in the latest technological achievements from around the world, contributing to nurturing a large number of new high-tech companies and facilitating booming technological transfers for foreign and domestic companies.

A robot is displayed at this year's China Hi-Tech Fair. CHINA DAILY

This year's fair, which ran from Nov 13 to 17, attracted 576,000 visitors from 108 countries and regions. Each booth received an average of 246 professional visitors per day.

The total exhibition area reached 142,000 sq m. A total of 3,315 exhibitors participated in this year's CHTF, showcasing 10,216 high-tech projects. They covered various fields including AI, smart manufacturing, big data, cloud computing and commercial applications of 5G.

Cambricon, an industrial leader in AI chips based in Beijing, released its latest chips for intelligent edge computing during the 21st CHTF.

The new products can help a variety of industries to realize the application of edge intelligence. These industries include electronics, manufacturing, finance, transportation, education, logistics, medical services and wholesale.

"We will continue to invest in the research of AI processors to facilitate edge computing, autopilot vehicle computing and training in different fields, so that computing products and services can be more flexible, efficient, highly functioning and faster," said Liu Daofu, vice-president of Cambricon."In the end, the machines can better understand and serve humans."

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology holds a groundbreaking ceremony for a panel display project in India in December 2018. CHINA DAILY

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology, a subsidiary of TCL Group, which is one of the country's leading home appliance makers, has focused on innovation in semiconductor displays. The company exhibited at the high-tech fair seven times.

"TCL CSOT has grown fast since its establishment in 2009, and is among the top five in the world panel sector," said Li Dongsheng, board chairman of TCL. "It breaks the long-term monopoly of foreigner panel manufacturers."

The company has four manufacturing centers in Shenzhen and neighboring Huizhou city in Guangdong province, Wuhan in Hubei province and India, with six panel production lines currently commissioned in China providing panels and modules for televisions as well as mobile products.

At the fair, the company launched a smart blackboard, which has a size of 105 inches, as well as an 86-inch dual-screen smart blackboard.

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