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the overall quality of 500 county hospitals and as demonstration zones for regional cooperation.
500 traditional Chinese medicine county hospitals Since then, the two cities have carried out a series
will be improved, and development of traditional of cooperation ventures in the fields of science
Chinese medicine will be supported. More funds and technology, medical and healthcare, tourism
and preferential policies will be delivered to and cultural exchanges (Zhao).
residents in deeply poor regions, and medical
students will be encouraged to work in village and China’s eastern metropolis of Shanghai started
county hospitals, the circular said (State Council). to build the country’s first pilot zone for the
innovation and application of artificial intelligence
Medical Pilot Zones (AI) in 2019. Approved by the Ministry of Industry
and Information Technology, the pilot zone in the
A research institute that focuses on the Pudong New Area has set three main tasks, to
development of pilot medical free trade zones was establish an AI core industrial cluster, to promote
founded in Jinan, capital of East China’s Shandong AI application and to build a supporting system
province in 2019 in a bid to provide intellectual for AI innovation, said the Shanghai Bureau of
support for the province’s campaign on building a Economy and Information Technology. A batch
pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Backed by the School of test fields will be established in the pilot zone
of International Trade and Economics at Shandong for AI innovation and application in several path
University of Finance and Economics, the institute finding fields, including manufacturing, medical
will emphasize sectors such as big data in FTZs, care, transportation and finance, according to
financial reform and innovation at FTZs, policy the Bureau. The pilot area will also explore the
assessment and talent training. Shandong has layout, infrastructure, standard architecture
been actively exploring the building of a pilot free and intellectual property transactions of the AI
trade zone and has submitted plans to higher industry, removing barriers on qualification, data
authorities. Six new pilot free trade zones are to and security. With rich application scenarios,
be established, President Xi said in his speech at Shanghai has been vigorously promoting the
the G20 summit in the Japanese city of Osaka. Xi development of AI industry with its AI@SH action
also said the negotiation process of the trilateral in recent years, attracting industrial leaders like
free trade agreement between China, Japan and Microsoft and IBM. The city is eyeing a global AI
South Korea would be promoted. hub with plans to expand the scale of its industry
to more than US$14.5 billion by 2020 (Xinhua,
This offers opportunities to Shandong Shanghai building).
which possesses unique regional advantages
to participate in international cooperation, Hospitals
especially in cooperation with Japan and South
Korea. Shandong is home to most of the South Increased rates of chronic illness and the aging
Korean-funded enterprises in China. The area population are putting pressure on the Chinese
also released measures in building a China-South health system, though China differs from the U.S.
Korea industrial park in Yantai, a coastal city of the with a higher rate of death and illness due to chronic
province, in November last year. Covering over respiratory diseases. In the midst of this, China suffers
80 square kilometers, the park aims to attract a shortage of physicians with only 1.49 doctors per
more than 100 new South Korean projects by 1,000 people. Healthcare providers are not as well
2025. Statistics from the Shandong Commerce paid nor well respected in China as in the U.S., and
Department showed that more than 4,380 South China faces real difficulties of mistrust and suspicion
Korean enterprises have been operating to develop of health providers. Beyond these healthcare
in Shandong by the end of 2018. The province has dynamics, China has a highly rural population, a
benefited from the free trade agreement between lack of existing infrastructure, and near universal
China and South Korea which was signed in 2015. consumer mobile adoption. Chinese innovators also
In the agreement, Shandong’s coastal city of have access to low cost labor, a large population, and
Weihai and Incheon in South Korea were selected more relaxed privacy regulations (Moran).
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the overall quality of 500 county hospitals and as demonstration zones for regional cooperation.
500 traditional Chinese medicine county hospitals Since then, the two cities have carried out a series
will be improved, and development of traditional of cooperation ventures in the fields of science
Chinese medicine will be supported. More funds and technology, medical and healthcare, tourism
and preferential policies will be delivered to and cultural exchanges (Zhao).
residents in deeply poor regions, and medical
students will be encouraged to work in village and China’s eastern metropolis of Shanghai started
county hospitals, the circular said (State Council). to build the country’s first pilot zone for the
innovation and application of artificial intelligence
Medical Pilot Zones (AI) in 2019. Approved by the Ministry of Industry
and Information Technology, the pilot zone in the
A research institute that focuses on the Pudong New Area has set three main tasks, to
development of pilot medical free trade zones was establish an AI core industrial cluster, to promote
founded in Jinan, capital of East China’s Shandong AI application and to build a supporting system
province in 2019 in a bid to provide intellectual for AI innovation, said the Shanghai Bureau of
support for the province’s campaign on building a Economy and Information Technology. A batch
pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Backed by the School of test fields will be established in the pilot zone
of International Trade and Economics at Shandong for AI innovation and application in several path
University of Finance and Economics, the institute finding fields, including manufacturing, medical
will emphasize sectors such as big data in FTZs, care, transportation and finance, according to
financial reform and innovation at FTZs, policy the Bureau. The pilot area will also explore the
assessment and talent training. Shandong has layout, infrastructure, standard architecture
been actively exploring the building of a pilot free and intellectual property transactions of the AI
trade zone and has submitted plans to higher industry, removing barriers on qualification, data
authorities. Six new pilot free trade zones are to and security. With rich application scenarios,
be established, President Xi said in his speech at Shanghai has been vigorously promoting the
the G20 summit in the Japanese city of Osaka. Xi development of AI industry with its AI@SH action
also said the negotiation process of the trilateral in recent years, attracting industrial leaders like
free trade agreement between China, Japan and Microsoft and IBM. The city is eyeing a global AI
South Korea would be promoted. hub with plans to expand the scale of its industry
to more than US$14.5 billion by 2020 (Xinhua,
This offers opportunities to Shandong Shanghai building).
which possesses unique regional advantages
to participate in international cooperation, Hospitals
especially in cooperation with Japan and South
Korea. Shandong is home to most of the South Increased rates of chronic illness and the aging
Korean-funded enterprises in China. The area population are putting pressure on the Chinese
also released measures in building a China-South health system, though China differs from the U.S.
Korea industrial park in Yantai, a coastal city of the with a higher rate of death and illness due to chronic
province, in November last year. Covering over respiratory diseases. In the midst of this, China suffers
80 square kilometers, the park aims to attract a shortage of physicians with only 1.49 doctors per
more than 100 new South Korean projects by 1,000 people. Healthcare providers are not as well
2025. Statistics from the Shandong Commerce paid nor well respected in China as in the U.S., and
Department showed that more than 4,380 South China faces real difficulties of mistrust and suspicion
Korean enterprises have been operating to develop of health providers. Beyond these healthcare
in Shandong by the end of 2018. The province has dynamics, China has a highly rural population, a
benefited from the free trade agreement between lack of existing infrastructure, and near universal
China and South Korea which was signed in 2015. consumer mobile adoption. Chinese innovators also
In the agreement, Shandong’s coastal city of have access to low cost labor, a large population, and
Weihai and Incheon in South Korea were selected more relaxed privacy regulations (Moran).
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