A pair of wild giant pandas, believed to be a panda mother and her cub, were captured on infrared camera on Monday strolling through forests in the Beichuan zone of China's Giant Panda National Park in Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The footage shows a plump panda sniffing the grass with its head down, occasionally pausing to look around. Moments later, another panda, slightly larger, appears from surrounding foliage, following calmly and steadily behind the first. Judged from their size and behavior, local conservation staff preliminarily determined the two as a mother and her cub.
This is not the first time pandas in pairs have been recorded in this zone. The sign indicates the region's improving ecosystem and the achievements of the conservation efforts.
The Beichuan zone will continue its work to restore the panda habitat, including planting bamboo and minimizing human disturbance, so as to provide a safer, better environment for giant pandas and other rare wildlife species within the region.
Wild giant panda mother, cub captured strolling in Sichuan’s forest
China aims to achieve secure and reliable supply of key core artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by 2027, with its industrial scale and empowerment level remaining among the world's forefront, according to a recent government action plan.
The plan, jointly issued by eight departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China, and the National Development and Reform Commission, outlines an ambitious push to deeply integrate AI with the manufacturing sector, foster new quality productive forces and comprehensively empower new industrialization. By 2027, the plan targets the deep application of three to five general-purpose large AI models in manufacturing, the development of specialized, full-coverage industry-specific large models, the creation of 100 high-quality industrial datasets, and the promotion of 500 typical application scenarios.
It also aims to cultivate two to three globally influential ecosystem-leading enterprises, a batch of specialized and sophisticated small and medium-sized enterprises, and a group of enabling service providers proficient in both AI technology and industry know-how.
Furthermore, China plans to build a world-leading open-source ecosystem, enhance security governance capabilities, and contribute Chinese solutions to global AI development.
The document outlines measures including promoting the coordinated development of AI chips' hardware and software, supporting innovations in model training and inference methods, fostering key industry-specific large models, and deeply embedding large model technology into core production processes.
The plan also emphasizes making breakthroughs in key technologies such as security protection for industrial model algorithms and training data protection.
China aims for secure, reliable supply of AI core tech by 2027
