Hefei Holds Entrepreneur Spring Festival Symposium and Robots Can Get Bachelor Degree in the Future

　　At the end of last year, the robot-themed restaurant opened in Hefei enabled people to experience an intelligent and interesting style of dinning; more similar “western style” lifestyles will show up this year. Yesterday, the Entrepreneur Spring Festival Symposium was held, during which leaders from different industries covering automobile, general merchandise, catering, household appliances, voice, etc. revealed many new products for people’s livelihood at the same time when they were introducing their development plans. They are so amazing!

[Shopping] Pay the bill with mobile phones when going shopping in supermarkets
　　According to Zheng Xiaoyan, Chairman of Hefei Department Store Group, people will be able to find convenience stores only tem minutes away from home.
　　Convenience stores will have more services that are favorable to and convenient for citizens and will be turned into pick-up points of E-business logistics enterprises.
　　According to plan, fresh products will be available for sale on the 6th day this month. Even in physical stores, one can buy things without paying cash or using bank card payment. “Mobile payment and WeChat payment will be popularized in full scale” said Zheng. Since February, AliPay can be used in some Hejiafu Supermarkets and will be popularized in all supermarkets within the year.
　　Moreover, according to Zheng, Hefei Zhougudui Agricultural Trade Market and other trading zones for dry goods, grains & oils, seafood, meats, etc. that are now under construction will be completed soon. Business relocations of vegetable markets will be realized in the first half of this year.

[Entertainment] Construction of Animation Industrial Park Will Start in May
　　The “Robot-themed Restaurant” opened at the end of last year is really popular among people. It is owned by Goocoo Investment Group. Yesterday, Yuan Qihong, Chairman of the group said in the meeting that robot application will have new breakthroughs this year and industrialization of the “Kejia” robots served as shopping guides in supermarkets that are exhibited in Goocoo Plaza last year will be accelerated. It is learned that Goocoo Investment Group will build a robot industrial park together with the High-tech Zone and service robots and education robots will also be brought into production in the days to come.
　　Two amusing places will also face the world: construction of the Animation Industrial Park in Shushan District will start in May. According to Yuan, it is similar to the Lotteworld Theme Park in Korea and will be the first large-scale comprehensive indoor animation entertainment city in Hefei that can enable people to interact with or experience high technologies. It will be put into operation in 2017 in the plan. Besides, the “Angry Birds” Theme Park with the total investment of RMB 10 billion will be built at northwestern bank of Shaoquan Lake, Xinzhan District and is expected to enter substantial promotion stage this year.

[Intelligence] Robots Can Get Bachelor Degree in the Future
　　Voicecloud already applied to mobile phone input method will render enormous support to us, i.e. traveling abroad. “Currently, our oral translation between Chinese and English has already ranked first in the world and we are planning to launch dedicated Chinese-English oral translation software in the third quarter of this year” said Wu Xiaoru, Incumbent President of iFLYTEK. This good news will relieve us from the worries for language barriers when we are travelling abroad. The ability to listen and speak is not the cap for robots. “They will be able to understand and think in the future” said Wu. In the plan of “Xunfei Super Brain”, robots will be able to reach undergraduate level when taking the college entrance examination three or five years later. “These robots can be used in different sectors including education, automobile device, i-Government, customer service, etc.”
　　Bank passwords are expected to be safer and more reliable. “Biometric identification technology will be released recently and the voice print, for example, will be used as password that will never be lost with its reliability exceeding 99.99%.”

[Link] Wu Cunrong Likes Tiny Robots
　　Wu Cunrong also likes the robot-themed park that brings new dining experience to citizens. “The restaurant is fairly popular when some colleagues and I come to eat in it. It"s in fact really simple and the ordering & dish delivery are finished by 1.2 m tiny robots. These pre-programmed robots can greatly reduce labor costs.”
　　Wu also reminded that there still remains great potential for enterprises to pursue development by relying on innovation at the moment instead of fighting for essential elements and resources in the past. He revealed that there are over 10,000 registered enterprises in High-tech Zone and many have pleasing benefits. “Despite of concerns about new technologies and new types of operation, talents should also be emphasized so as to keep those who can create the most productivity.”