China New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Report (2019) - China Innovation Funding

The 2019 China New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Report was officially released on 24 May 2019 during the Pujiang Innovation Forum. According to analysts, the biggest challenge that China's AI development is facing relates to very weak links between universities and universities/research institutes. For instance, although China ranks first in the world for number of papers published, these mainly originate from universities and research institutes. There still are no strong and effective mechanisms to the supply and demand of AI results, which largely remain not market-oriented. The number of industry actors participating in government-funded AI research is still very low.