giants of the era

Chapter 492 City Brain
Soon, Christmas will come.

Hangzhou, as the capital of a province and a first-tier city in China, has a very festive atmosphere. Snowflakes, evergreen rings (Christmas rings), bells, ribbons and so on are hung on the streets and alleys.

Christmas in Hangzhou is a different kind of Christmas, at least for Xiaoyueer, it is very fun.

But Li Zetian told her, "The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival!"

Xiao Yueer looked at Li Zetian curiously with bright, big eyes, "Dad, what is Spring Festival?"

Li Zetian was stunned when he heard the words. Chinese children don't know about the Spring Festival?It's ridiculous to say it, but it's true.

"The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the traditional name is New Year. Yueer, do you know that Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4000 years..."

"More than 4000 years of history?!" After hearing this, Xiao Yue'er was so surprised that she wrung her little fingers, feeling a little overwhelmed.

"Dad, Dad, tell me about this Spring Festival again!" Xiao Yueer pestered Li Zetian and said, it could be seen that at this moment, she was full of curiosity about the Spring Festival.

Li Zetian smiled, held her in his arms, touched her little head, and began to tell the story of the Spring Festival vividly, "The Spring Festival has gone through more than 4000 years, and it has flourished day by day, demonstrating the inherent charm and vitality of Chinese culture. The values ​​contained in it are an important guarantee for the Chinese civilization to become the only ancient civilization in the world that continues to this day, and it is also a solid foundation for the rise of China today..."

A few minutes later, after listening to Li Zetian's words, Xiao Yueer couldn't help but yearn for the Spring Festival, and couldn't help but ask, "Dad, when will we celebrate the Spring Festival?"

Li Zetian touched her little head again, and said with a smile, "Hehe, it's early, there are still two months left!"

……

After coming to Hangzhou, Li Zetian was not idle. He mentioned before that he wanted to establish the Hangzhou branch of Kronos University in Hangzhou. Taking advantage of the time, Li Zetian decided to do this matter.He approached the Hangzhou government and explained his intentions. He was overjoyed when he heard that he wanted to run a university, and it was run on the scale of a top university. Li Zetian invested nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars to run this school.

Running a school is actually very profitable. For example, Harvard University has a revenue budget of about US$2017 billion in 30 and a yield of 8.5%. It is the richest university in the world.Other universities are certainly lucrative, if not as rich as Harvard.

However, Li Zetian didn't like the money, he valued talents.

China has a population of 13 billion. With such a huge population base, it stands to reason that China has a lot more talents than the United States.But the fact is that the United States has gathered the world's top talents.In addition to global talents flocking to the United States, the teaching level of American schools is also very important.

To put it bluntly, China's education is a cramming-style education, which blindly emphasizes laying a solid foundation, resulting in a lot of mechanical and repetitive tasks. world-class scientists.However, foreign education focuses on cultivating students' hands-on ability and innovation ability.

Li Zetian is still more inclined to foreign education concepts.

Kronos University has already achieved success in Hong Kong and has become a world-class university. Now it has established a branch in Hangzhou, which is not starting from scratch.Li Zetian believes that there will be many outstanding students willing to enter this school.

After the matter was settled, Li Zetian also consulted with the Hangzhou government about another matter.

After hearing this, the leaders of HZ City were stunned.

"City Brain?!"

"Yes, that's right, it's the city brain. In fact, it uses artificial intelligence and big data to govern the city!" Li Zetian was afraid that the leaders of HZ City would not understand, so he explained in more detail, "The city brain is the link between government departments and enterprises. Information checkpoint, a large platform for sharing data built for urban governance. The core system of the platform is the use of Kronos industrial artificial intelligence technology, which can conduct global real-time analysis of the entire city, automatically allocate public resources, and eventually evolve into a governance Super AI for cities."

"The first step of the urban brain project team is to digitize all infrastructure such as transportation, energy, and water supply, connect the data resources scattered in various units of the city, and open up the 'neural network'. Taking transportation as an example, through cameras, sensing devices, The construction of outfield sensing equipment such as monitoring and the application of algorithms for urban traffic big data will enable the first application of AI technology in the field of urban brain traffic. By then, tens of billions of urban traffic management data, public service data, and operator Data and Internet data are centrally input into Hangzhou's "urban brain", and these data become the origin of the wisdom of the "urban brain"!"

Li Zetian swept his eyes and said confidently: "I believe that with the development of the city brain project, the development of the world's cities will undergo a very big change, and the city brain will become a very important infrastructure for future cities. Our future life will bring greater convenience and imagination! So...is Hangzhou willing to be the first city to make such an attempt?"

Achievement!

Achievements! !
Achievements! ! !

At this moment, this is what the officials had in mind.

"Mr. Li, Hangzhou is a city that forges ahead and dares to innovate. So, we are willing to give it a try!"

"The spirit of Hangzhou is to dare to be the first!!!"

"..."

All the officials expressed their support, and finally, the mayor said, "However, this project is quite difficult, and I'm afraid it will cost a lot..." After speaking, his eyes turned to Li Zetian.

Damn, I help Hangzhou build a city brain, and you still ask me for money? !

Li Zetian was a little speechless.Of course, he also created a city brain out of selfishness, which not only can speed up the development of artificial intelligence, but more importantly, using the artificial intelligence of Chronos Industry, to a certain extent, is equivalent to Li Zetian's acquisition of part of the management of the city.Doesn't the city brain monitor the entire city mean that he monitors the entire city?
If Hangzhou City Brain is successful and the effect is obvious, it will be much easier to promote it to other cities.At that time, these cities will take the initiative to cooperate with Li Zetian and ask for money!

But at the moment, the Hangzhou government can't just let the Hangzhou government take advantage of it. It's okay to ask for money, but it must provide compensation.Li Zetian is shrewd. He said lightly: "Mayor, I am very optimistic about the city brain project, and I hope it will succeed. I know it will be difficult and it will cost a lot of money, but I can 'borrow money' to the government, but ..."

GDP is the most important part of the evaluation of local officials. For the sake of political achievements and promotion, local officials boldly began to use "future money" to start the current projects. Schools, transportation...the money is not enough, so of course we have to borrow it.Therefore, it is normal for the government to borrow money.However, the state generally does not allow local governments to issue bonds, so local governments resort to a special "state-owned enterprise" for financing, thereby realizing borrowing in disguise.

At this time, when the mayor heard that Li Zetian wanted to borrow money from the government, his heart beat faster and he hurriedly asked, "But what?!!"

"First of all, in terms of business, I have to calculate the loan interest; secondly, I hope that most of the basic equipment for building the city brain will use my company's products, such as cameras, cables, and network equipment."

"No problem, no problem!" The mayor and the others looked at each other and agreed, these two requests were not too much.

(End of this chapter)