The seventh China International Import Expo (CIIE) 2024, scheduled for Nov 5 to 10 in Shanghai, will leverage technologies including AI models and big data analysis to optimize experience at service and management ends for all participants, said a leading municipal official on Wednesday.
Hua Yuan, vice mayor of Shanghai, told a press conference in Beijing that the upcoming CIIE has developed a specialized online application and geared up for all-process real-time monitoring to provide experience improvement services for exhibitors and visitors.
"This year, we have focused on data empowerment, information integration, and the creation of a people-oriented service experience for exhibitors and visitors to enhance agile and efficient management capabilities and a comprehensive level of intelligent service management mainly in two aspects," said Hua.
"First, we focused on the convenience of exhibitors and visitors to foster service optimization. For this year's CIIE, we focused on developing an application called 'Jinboshi', which is an AI digital service butler. We completed high-precision modeling of the entire exhibition hall, achieved seamless switching of navigation inside and outside the hall and route planning across floors. We also focused on the different needs before, during and after the exhibition, and created an exclusive service package for exhibitors and visitors in the application, which will provide services in catering and accommodation, transportation, certificate inquiry, and supply and demand docking. At the same time, we integrated instant messaging and multilingual capabilities to provide communication channels for face-to-face consultation services and improve consultation efficiency," he continued.
"Moreover, we focused on the orderly operation of the exhibition to achieve management optimization. In the exhibition hall, we use spatial computing perception equipment to achieve real-time monitoring of the flow of people and abnormal crowd gathering in the hall. In the CIIE comprehensive management platform, we have access to 17 categories of real-time dynamic heterogeneous data such as weather, engineering, fire protection, greening, and transportation, allowing us to realize intelligent analysis of 10 major application scenarios such as emergency, transportation, and meteorology, and therefore achieving same-screen synchronization of management and command inside and outside the exhibition hall," he said.
At present, more than 70 countries and international organizations have confirmed their participation in the seventh CIIE, and the event will see Norway, Slovakia, Benin, Burundi, Madagascar and UNICEF participating in the Country Exhibition for the first time.
China import expo leverages AI models, big data analysis to optimize service for exhibitors, visitors
A Brazilian national who was deported by the United States in January this year recounted the discriminatory and inhumane treatment he encountered during the repatriation in an interview with China Central Television (CCTV).
Jefferson Faustino was among the 88 deported Brazilians sent by a charter flight from the U.S. to Manaus, a city in northern Brazil, on Jan 24.
During dozens of hours of flight, they were handcuffed, shackled, and denied food and bathroom, and they almost lost their lives to an air conditioning fault, according to Faustino.
"They gave us water in very small bottles on the plane. And I couldn't drink it, because my hands were cuffed to the waist chain. So I had to bend down hard and squash the bottle to spray water into my mouth, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to reach the water at all. Even by doing so, I couldn't get water. When I squeeze the bottle, the water sprayed out and soaked me all over. In the 48 hours of repatriation, they distributed food only one time. It was a spoiled sandwich. The sandwich they gave turned purplish color. I was starving. What could I do? I had to eat," Faustino said.
"In the 48 hours of repatriation, they distributed food only one time. It was a spoiled sandwich. The sandwich they gave me was purple. I was starving. What could I do? I had to eat," he added.
Meanwhile, the American crew enjoyed fresh food and water, Faustino told CCTV.
"No, they had very good food. Every meal, they went over there to heat up box lunches and drink water. The cabin cabinets were full of lunch boxes, full of food, but they didn't give us that food," he said.
The Brazilian deportees protested the unfair treatment and asked for the food and water, but they were not given a response, because of the language barrier, Faustino recalled.
"Yes, we asked. We spoke loudly to them, but the crew didn't speak Portuguese or Spanish, only English. It's a humiliation to us the Brazilians, because we didn't have food and couldn't use the bathroom. The children were crying," he said.
After the plane arrived in Manaus, the air conditioning system broke down and the crew got off the plane, leaving the deportees suffocating in the enclosure.
"People couldn't breathe. The cabin was out of air. I managed to open an emergency exit door and shouted to the police: 'Help! Help! Help!' I yelled for help, asking them to come and save us, because I thought I was dying, I was dying," Faustino said.
The Brazilian government deemed this treatment "degrading" and "unacceptable", with the country's foreign ministry summoning the charge d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy to request an explanation over the issue on Jan 26.
"The U.S. government should be held accountable. Why didn't they train these people responsible for transporting deportees. Since the Trump administration came to power, it has created conflicts in American society and adopted policies that are completely against democracy and public opinion, disrupting relations between the U.S. and its economic and political partners," said Rinaldo Leal, a Brazilian lawyer.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed on his inauguration day an executive order that called for mass deportations of undocumented migrants. Since then, raids and deportations of undocumented migrants, especially those from Latin America, have continued to ramp up.
Brazilian deportee recounts inhumane treatment during flight from US
Brazilian deportee recounts inhumane treatment during flight from US
