Massive eSports park in the works
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Minhang is jumping into the burgeoning eSports industry, unveiling plans for the establishment of a massive new industrial park dedicated to digital entertainment.
The park will be called the Shanghai International New Cultural and Creative ESports Center. It will be built by Super Generation, a Guangdong-based eSports group, and will be located in the southern Hongqiao area.
The all-in-one professional park is part of a citywide plan to make Shanghai a global hub for eSports, nurturing professional players, coaches, game research and development and competitions. The park will also cater to film, animation and television industries.
The park, which is expected to attract more than 10,000 visitors a day after completion, will contain facilities for more than 100 companies.
ESports has grown from underground gaming to an unstoppable trend. Shanghai’s profile in the industry will be further lifted by its hosting of the International DOTA 2 Championships this month.
In the first six months of this year, e-Sports revenue in China rose 11 percent from a year earlier to 46.5 billion yuan (US$6.59 billion). The industry draws in some 500 million people.
By 2020, Minhang is expected to have eight city-level cultural and creative parks and 15 district-level ones. It is expected to be home to more than 500 companies engaged in the cultural and creative arts.
In keeping with the focus on digital technology, the district has released a long-term plan for the development and use of artificial intelligence.
Minhang’s Qiangwei Primary School Afflicted to the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been chosen as a trial site for the application of artificial intelligence to education.
The E-Learning Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University is helping bring the technology to the classroom. By monitoring the environment of classrooms and evaluating teaching methods, artificial intelligence can devise tailor-made solutions to improve teaching quality.
“In traditional classrooms, teachers have limited time to focus on every student,” said Chen Xiaomiao, the primary school’s headmaster. “If we want to manage class quality by ourselves, it’s a monument task.”
The school is now equipped with monitoring cameras and three AI systems. They can discern students’ learning habits and even their health conditions in real time.
Based on collected data and images, algorithms can produce an assessment after class. By comparing the same content taught by different teachers, the system can evaluate the best content and thereby help improve teaching capabilities.
In the next 10 years, artificial intelligent technology will also be extended to Maqiao Town, according to the government plan.
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