Britain's Prince William has opened the GREAT Festival of Creativity at the Long Museum in Shanghai.

The event is meant to try to showcase some of the best the UK has in creative talent.

Organizers say the event should help forge new partnerships between Britain and China, with more than 500 British companies in the entertainment, design, health care and fashion fields taking part.

"This is a driverless pod and the idea with this is that you don't have to have any driver and it has 23 different sensors of different kinds to guide it. And it uses GPS for map locations."

"It is a computer vision system that is able to recognize not only faces but facial details like age, gender and moods as well."

Before heading to Shanghai, Prince William first met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and toured the Forbidden City.

He also attended a ceremony to launch the 2015 China-UK Year of Cultural Exchange.

The Duke of Cambridge's trip to China is the first since Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip visited China in 1986.

Prince William is also due to visit Yunnan before wrapping up his four-day trip to China.