What changed
More than 100 Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese university students visited Chengdu’s Science and Technology Innovation Island on 31 October to explore AI, industrial internet, intelligent manufacturing and robotics. Students tested a local large-model terminal, generated digital humans, explored AR and digital-twin systems, and completed a humanoid-robot teleoperation data-collection challenge.
Why it matters
The event showed technology as something students could handle, tune and test, rather than simply watch on a screen. Chengdu is using the island to connect research, industry, talent and capital around real application scenarios, giving visiting students a direct look at how technical ideas move toward practical use.
That hands-on emphasis matters. Participants worked in groups to adjust equipment and organise collected data, while demonstrations linked AI to digital-content creation and detailed city management. One student from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is also developing an AI learning tool for traditional Chinese-medicine education, arguing that the technology could make a long course of study more efficient.
The activity may help students understand where their own skills fit into Chengdu’s innovation system. Whether it leads to formal partnerships, investment or jobs remains unclear, but the message was concrete: the city wants emerging technology experienced in working environments, not kept behind laboratory doors.
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