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Du Yifei BEIJING, Oct 21: The city of Hangzhou's traffic efficiency has seen substantial improvements a year after it introduced its "City Brain" project, with an artificial intelligence (AI) hub that uses big data to help it "think" and make decisions better. The programme started in October 2016 with a vision of building Hangzhou into a smart city with the ability to regulate itself and interact better with its human occupants. Hangzhou is the capital of east China's Zhejiang province and the first city in the world to manage its public affairs with AI technology assistance. Some of the latest beneficiaries of the programme are the local traffic police, since the "City Brain" has started helping them maintain traffic and respond quicker to traffic accidents. "The City Brain can detect accidents within a second, and we can arrive at the site in five minutes," said ZhengYijiong, a traffic police officer and the first police officer in China to control the traffic with an AI partner.