Colorful events have been held across China ahead of the International Children's Day on Monday to celebrate childhood and spark young imaginations .
At Beijing's landmark Beihai Park, choirs from regions and provinces across the nations such as Xinjiang and Qinghai joined their peers in the capital city in lively performances, creating a joyful musical feast. Meanwhile, children also learned to appreciate the charm of Chinese traditional culture through interactive crafts and heritage performances at a culture experience area.
At a humanoid robot center in central China's Hubei Province, children explored robotics on this weekend as volunteers turned complex technology into child-friendly language, sparking their curiosity and imagination.
"I want to be a scientist in the future, and invent better robots to help my mom with housework and my dad with car repairs," said Huang Xiaoyin, a pupil.
In Siyang, a county in east China's Jiangsu Province, local children attended a mock trial class to enhance their legal knowledge on the special occasion.
Family fun challenges were held in Xiong'an New Area in north China's Hebei Province to celebrate the festival. The area also showcased achievements in building a child-friendly city.
Meanwhile, children brought their textbooks to life on stage, performing plays that added a creative twist to the celebrations.
Colorful activities held across China to celebrate Int'l Children's Day
China is vigorously pushing forward the integrated development of artificial intelligence (AI) and energy this year, with dozens of industry-specific large language models now in operation across the energy sector, including power grid, oil and gas, coal, and new energy.
An example is the Kunlun large model released by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer and supplier.
As the first officially-registered large model in China's energy and chemical industry, Kunlun has entered a stage of active intelligence, featuring six advanced AI capabilities, with an average daily token call volume of 48.5 billion.
It's also the first large model in China's energy and chemical industry to achieve systematic and large-scale deployment across the entire industrial chain, covering 152 application scenarios including oil and gas exploration and extraction, refining, technical services, and financing.
"The Kunlun large model is being applied to every key link of the industrial chain. We have set 27 AI standards in areas such as dataset models, embodied intelligence, and AI governance, transforming the model's practical experience into industry consensus," said Qiao Hui, assistant general manager of the CNPC.
In addition, China Energy Investment Group has launched Qingyuan, a large model for power generation, which has been applied in four major areas: safety and environmental protection, power trading, production coordination, and equipment maintenance.
In the power grid sector, China Southern Power Grid has developed Big Watt, which is now mainly applied in production. It provides professional power knowledge retrieval and specialized services for defect detection in power transmission and distribution, power dispatch, grid planning, and safety supervision.
"We are forming a virtuous cycle in which the energy industry creates scenarios, AI solves problems and raises requirements, and then the energy industry optimizes its supply," said Wang Hongzhi, head of the National Energy Administration (NEA).
Last month, the NEA announced 51 AI+ high-value scenarios in the energy sector, aiming to explore a new scalable and replicable paradigm for integrated development of AI and energy, and to promote the intelligent transformation of the energy sector.
China accelerates AI application in energy sector
