BEIJING -- China will release a national rural vitalization strategic program (2018-2022) to implement policies under the No 1 central document this year.The first draft of the program has been completed and submitted for approval, Wu Hongyao, deputy director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, told a press briefing on Monday.The program is dedicated to guiding local governments and related departments to promote rural vitalization in a practical and orderly manner, said Wu.The No 1 central document is the name traditionally given to the first policy statement of the year released by the central authorities, and is seen as an indicator of policy priorities.This year, the No 1 central document released on Sunday had rural vitalization as its theme.By vitalizing its vast rural regions, China expects to see a strong agricultural sector, a beautiful countryside and well-off farmers, said the No 1 central document. cheap silicone wristbands canadafundraising rubber wristbandsrelationship braceletsdesign your own silicone wristband onlinerheumatoid arthritis silicone bracelets
BEIJING - Building a space station, probing Mars, setting up a lunar base and going deeper into the universe - artificial intelligence will be at the cutting edge of China's space odyssey.China is stepping up development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to support its space programs, Zhang Duzhou, a member of the Chinese Association of Automation and the Chinese Society of Astronautics, told a space conference in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.Back in 1995, Yang Jiachi, a leading contributor to the development of China's first satellite about half a century ago, proposed developing technology for the intelligent autonomous control of spacecraft.Experts are now developing AI technologies in visual image recognition, visual tracking, rendezvous and docking, navigation and positioning, mission planning and spacecraft fault diagnosis, said Zhang.Some Chinese spacecraft have been endowed with the preliminary ability of autonomous task-planning.For instance, Tianzhou-1, China's first cargo spacecraft launched in April 2017, accomplished autonomous fast rendezvous and docking with the Tiangong-2 space lab. The rendezvous and docking time was shortened from three days to six and a half hours thanks to AI.AI technology also aided the Chang'e-3 lunar probe, launched in 2013, to touch down softly on the Moon. The probe's lander was capable of hovering and choosing a suitable landing site on its own.However, Zhang said, China's space AI is still "weak". If AI technologies are divided into six levels, China is at level two or level three. The technology at level six, the highest level, can enable spacecraft to perform automatic reasoning and independent thinking in orbit."Our aim is to reach level six," Zhang said.AI technology is especially useful for spacecraft that are expensive, hard to repair, doing complicated tasks, deployed in a rigorous space environment, or so far from Earth that they respond to directions very slowly, said Zhang.With AI, spacecraft could acquire the abilities of self-learning, autonomous perception and planning and self-decision, thus lowering the cost of operation and increasing the quality, safety, reliability and flexibility of space missions.The development of AI will bring breakthroughs to China's space industry, he added. logo braceletspersonalized sports braceletspersonalized rubber braceletsid wristbands for eventscustom wrist sweatbands<%2fcenter>
