Giant of the times - Chapter 501

c492 city ​​brain

Soon, Christmas came.

As the capital of a province and a first-tier city in China, Hangzhou still has a strong festive atmosphere. Snowflakes, evergreen rings (Christmas rings), bells, ribbons, etc. are hung in the streets and alleys.

Christmas in Hangzhou is a different kind of Christmas, at least for Xiao Yue’er, it’s very fun.

But Li Zetian told her, “The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival!”

Xiao Yue’er looked at Li Zetian curiously with her bright, big eyes, “Dad, what is the Spring Festival?”

When Li Zetian heard this, he was suddenly stunned. Chinese children don’t know about the Spring Festival? It’s ridiculous to say it, but it’s true.

“The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China, and its traditional name is New Year. Yue’er, did you know that the Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years…”

“More than 4,000 years of history?!” After hearing this, Xiao Yue’er’s face was filled with surprise. She twitched her little fingers and felt like she couldn’t count.

“Dad, Dad, tell me about the Spring Festival again!” Xiao Yue’er pestered Li Zetian and said. It can be seen that at this moment, she is full of curiosity about the Spring Festival.

Li Zetian smiled, held her in his arms, touched her little head, and began to tell the story of the Spring Festival vividly, “The Spring Festival has gone through more than 4,000 years, and has become increasingly prosperous, demonstrating the inherent charm and vitality of Chinese culture. It has The values ​​contained in it are an important guarantee for the Chinese civilization to become the only ancient civilization in the world that continues to this day, and are also a solid foundation for the rise of China today…”

A few minutes later, after listening to Li Zetian’s words, Xiao Yue’er couldn’t help but yearn for the Spring Festival, and couldn’t help but ask: “Dad, when will we celebrate the Spring Festival?”

Li Zetian touched her little head again and said with a smile: “Haha, it’s early, there are still two months!”

…

After coming to Hangzhou, Li Zetian was not idle. He had mentioned before that he would establish the Hangzhou branch of Cronos University in Hangzhou. Li Zetian decided to do this while he had time. He went to the Hangzhou government and explained his purpose. When the other party heard that it was to set up a university, and that it was to be run on the scale of a top university, he was immediately overjoyed. He expressed support at that time and designated a large area of ​​land as the school land. Li Zetian invested nearly 1 billion US dollars to build this school.

Running a school is actually very profitable. For example, Harvard University has a revenue budget of approximately US$3 billion in 2017, with a return rate of 8.5%, making it the richest university in the world. Even if other universities are not as rich as Harvard, they are certainly very profitable.

However, Li Zetian looked down upon the money. What he valued was talent.

China has a population of 1.3 billion. With such a huge population base, it stands to reason that China has many more talents than the United States. But the fact is that the United States has gathered the best talents in the world. In addition to the influx of global talents to the United States, the teaching level of American schools is also very important.

To put it bluntly, China’s education is a cram-feeding education, which blindly emphasizes laying a solid foundation, resulting in a lot of mechanical and repetitive homework. The result is that it creates batches of high-scoring and low-energy talents, which are difficult to train. produce world-class scientists. Foreign education, on the other hand, focuses on cultivating students’ practical and innovative abilities.

Li Zetian still prefers foreign education concepts.

Kronos University has already achieved success in Hong Kong and has become a world-class university. Now it is establishing a branch in Hangzhou. This is not starting from scratch. Li Zetian believes that there will be many outstanding students willing to enter this school.

After the matter was settled, Li Zetian also discussed something with the Hangzhou government.

After hearing this, the HZ city leaders were filled with astonishment.

“City Brain?!”

“Yes, that’s right, it’s the city brain. It actually uses artificial intelligence and big data to govern the city!” Li Zetian was afraid that HZ city leaders wouldn’t understand, so he explained in more detail, “The city brain is the link between government departments and enterprises. Information Gate is a large shared data platform built for urban governance. The core system of this platform uses the artificial intelligence technology of Cronos Industries, which can conduct global real-time analysis of the entire city, automatically allocate public resources, and will eventually evolve into a governance-enabled system. Super artificial intelligence for cities.”

“The first step of the Urban Brain project team is to digitize all infrastructure such as transportation, energy, and water supply, connect data resources scattered in various units of the city, and open up the ‘neural network’. Taking transportation as an example, through cameras, sensing equipment, The construction of outdoor sensing equipment such as monitoring and the application of algorithms for urban traffic big data will enable the first application of AI technology in the field of urban brain transportation. By then, tens of billions of urban traffic management data, public service data, and operators will Data and Internet data are centrally input into Hangzhou’s ‘City Brain’, and these data become the origin of the ‘City Brain”s wisdom!”

Li Zetian glanced at it and said confidently: “I believe that with the unfolding of the City Brain Project, the development of world cities will undergo a very big change. The City Brain will become a very important infrastructure for future cities and will provide Our future life will bring greater convenience and imagination! So…is Hangzhou willing to be the first city to make such an attempt?”

Political achievements!

Political achievements! !

Political achievements! ! !

At this time, this is what officials are thinking about.

“Mr. Li, Hangzhou is an enterprising city and a city that dares to innovate. Therefore, we are willing to give it a try!”

“The spirit of Hangzhou is to dare to be the first!!!”

“…”

All the officials expressed their support. Finally, the mayor said: “However, this project is quite difficult and I’m afraid it will cost a lot of money…” After saying that, his eyes turned to Li Zetian.

Damn it, I’m helping Hangzhou build a city brain, and you still want to ask for money from me? !

Li Zetian was a little speechless. Of course, he also wanted to build a city brain out of selfish motives. Not only would it speed up the development of artificial intelligence, but more importantly, using the artificial intelligence from Cronos Industries would, to a certain extent, be equivalent to Li Zetian gaining a part of it. management of the city. If the city brain monitors the entire city, doesn’t that mean it monitors the entire city?

If Hangzhou City Brain is successful and the effect is obvious, it will be much easier to promote it to other cities. At that time, these cities will take the initiative to cooperate with Li Zetian and ask for money!

But now we cannot just let the Hangzhou government take advantage. We can ask for money, but we must provide compensation. Li Zetian was shrewd. He said calmly: “Mayor, I am very optimistic about the City Brain project and hope it can succeed. I know it is difficult and requires a lot of money. However, I can ‘lend’ money to the government, but …”

GDP is the most important part of the assessment of local officials. For political performance and promotion, local officials boldly began to use “future money” to build current projects. They carried out large-scale construction projects and concentrated their efforts on major projects, such as building roads, developing real estate, If we don’t have enough money to run schools and transportation, of course we have to borrow. Therefore, it is normal for the government to borrow money. However, the country generally does not allow local governments to issue bonds, so local governments resort to a special “state-owned enterprise” for financing, thereby borrowing money in disguise.

At this time, when the mayor heard that Li Zetian wanted to borrow money from the government, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated and he quickly asked: “But what?!!”

“First of all, in business, I have to calculate the loan interest; secondly, I hope that most of the basic equipment for building the city brain will use my company’s products, such as cameras, cables, network equipment, etc.”

“No problem, no problem!” The mayor and others looked at each other and agreed. These two requests were not excessive.