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China to train 500 teachers in AI - Xinhua
Visitors watch a robot dance at the World Robot Conference 2017 in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 25, 2017. Over 300 artificial intelligent (AI) specialists and representatives of over 150 robot enterprises attended the conference. BEIJING, April 7 (Xinhua) -- A government program is training 500 university teachers and 5,000 students in artificial intelligence (AI). The program organized by the Ministry of Education, Peking University and Innovation Works (a Beijing incubator) will continue for five years. Last year, China's cabinet issued an AI development outline, stressing the need to train AI talent and attract the world's leading professionals to China.