The just-concluded 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai witnessed groundbreaking transformation of traditional industries driven by artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
The event, held from Wednesday to Friday, showcased China's progress in applying large AI models to critical sectors including natural resource management and industrial safety systems.
An AI safety monitoring system for mines, combining large AI models with 5G technology, now protects operations 1,000 meters underground.
The system detects safety violations in real-time, such as workers crossing moving conveyor belts, triggering immediate alerts and automatic shutdown commands while providing emergency protocols.
"This system reduces inspection costs by 30 percent. By automatically generating emergency procedures and steps, we've improved response efficiency, cutting reaction time from 10 minutes to just 3 minutes, achieving 70 percent time savings," said Xu Xiaowei, solutions manager at China Mobile's Shanghai Industrial Research Institute.
Meanwhile, more than 230,000 communication towers across China have been upgraded into "digital towers" equipped with HD cameras and sensors. These structures now provide environmental monitoring, forest fire prevention and earthquake early warnings.
"Digital technology has enhanced our monitoring efficiency for natural resources and ecological environments. Our 18-billion-parameter visual AI model has improved target detection accuracy by at least 16 percent compared to single-algorithm small models," said Zhang Shuo, product manager at China Tower's Hebei branch. The system currently monitors 500,000 square kilometers of forests and 17,000 water management sites.
MWC Shanghai 2025 witnesses accelerated industrial transformation driven by AI big models
International guests who have dedicated their lives to historical truth joined China's 12th national memorial event honoring the hundreds of thousands of victims killed by Japanese troops in the Nanjing Massacre during World War II.
The memorial was held on Saturday at the public square of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. China's national flag was flown at half-mast in the presence the crowd that included survivors of the massacre, local students, and international guests.
In one of the most barbaric episodes during WWII, the Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the then-Chinese capital Nanjing on Dec 13, 1937. Over the course of six weeks, they proceeded to kill approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers.
Joining the crowd was Christoph Reinhardt, the great-grandson of John Rabe (1882-1950) who was then a representative of German conglomerate Siemens in the war-ravaged Nanjing. During the Nanjing Massacre, Rabe set up an international safety zone with other foreigners, and they together saved the lives of around 250,000 Chinese people between 1937 and 1938 from the Japanese invaders.
Throughout the massacre, Rabe continued to keep a diary. To this day, all his pages remain one of the most comprehensive historical records of the atrocities committed by the Japanese aggressors.
Sayoko Yamauchi, who was also in the crowd of mourners, arrived in Nanjing on Friday from Japan's Osaka to attend Saturday's ceremony, just as she has done almost every year since China designated Dec 13 as the National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre in 2014.
Yamauchi's grandfather was one of the Japanese soldiers who invaded Nanjing in January 1938. However, since first setting foot in Nanjing in 1987, she has dedicated herself to uncovering and spreading the truth about Japan's history of aggression and enlightening the Japanese public about their country's wartime atrocities.
In 2014, ahead of China's first National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, Yamauchi, along with 10 other individuals, received an award for her special contribution to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
By attending the grand memorial event, Reinhardt and Yamauchi both said they hope to convey a message of remembering history and cherishing peace.
"This is my fifth visit to China, and Nanjing, and the third times I visited the ceremony. I have a wish that these survivors survive again and again and again. But my other wish is that the families of the survivors, that they transport the information, the right intention like their ancestors, because anyone must hold a hand (during) this remembering," Reinhardt told China Central Television (CCTV) in an interview before the event began on Saturday.
"Our delegation is on its 20th visit to China, coming to Nanjing to express our heartfelt condolences to those who perished 88 years ago, to remember this history, and to reflect on what we can do for a new future. That's why we are here," Yamauchi told CCTV on board the bus that took her to a local hotel in Nanjing on Friday evening.
Int'l guests call for remembering history at China's national event honoring Nanjing Massacre victims
