The Yangtze River Delta AI+ Joint Innovation Center began operations in Qingpu district on July 27, serving as a comprehensive platform for technology testing, startup incubation, application demonstrations, and collaboration across the innovation ecosystem.

Located in Qingpu new town, the 5,400-square-meter facility was jointly developed by Qingpu district, Huawei, and its ecosystem partners. It is designed to work in tandem with the Huawei Lianqiu Lake R&D Center, linking basic research with application development and commercialization.

The center operates through six functional platforms, include the OpenHarmony Application Innovation Center, the Kunpeng and Ascend Innovation Center, the Embodied Intelligence Innovation Center, and the NearLink Open Lab, and a computing services base.

One of the six platforms, the NearLink Open Lab, was established through a partnership between home appliance manufacturer Midea and Huawei's chip-design subsidiary HiSilicon, facilitated by Qingpu district. NearLink is a next-generation short-range communication technology independently developed in China. It offers improved transmission performance and device compatibility compared with conventional short-range communication technologies.

Another platform, the Embodied Intelligence Innovation Center, is collaborating with a research team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University to develop intelligent robotic operating systems and cultivate engineering talent.

The center aims to accelerate the commercialization of research outcomes and support industrial upgrading across the Yangtze River Delta region.

Source: Qingpu district government