BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has established four state key laboratories, covering traditional Chinese medicine, microelectronics, smart-city Internet of Things, and lunar and planetary sciences, a national political advisor said on Wednesday. Relying on universities and state key laboratories, and through participation in major national projects, Macao has nurtured a legion of young scientists and attracted an increasing number of world-leading researchers to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, said Chen Ji Min, vice chairperson of the council of Macao University of Science and Technology, who is in Beijing to attend the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Students should be guided to use artificial intelligence (AI) rationally and avoid "intellectual laziness" as AI reshapes education and the role of teachers, a Chinese political advisor said on Wednesday. Xu Kun, president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, said AI is a double-edged sword that requires a commitment to "technology for good.
On March 7, the media open day for the delegation from southwest China's Yunnan Province was held in Beijing during the annual "two sessions," the annual meetings of China's top legislature and political advisory body. The remarks made on the development of Yunnan's agriculture by the delegation members sparked lively discussions.
File photo shows Shen Yanfen, a deputy to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, displaying potatoes at a potato farm. (Photo courtesy of the interviewee) "I was sort of tricked into studying potatoes," Shen Yanfen said with a laugh.
