At the beginning of 2025, a major event has added momentum to the "Future Theatre Studies" initiative which is being promoted by the Shanghai Theatre Academy.
On 3 January, the Shanghai Conference on Artificial Intelligence+" Promotion Launch Ceremony of the Operation Base for China-BRICS Artificial Intelligence Development and Cooperation Centre were held in Shanghai. The event was attended by Chen Jie, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, Wei Wei, Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Zhuang Mudi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government, Yu Xiaohui, President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Zhang Ying, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Economy and Information Technology Commission, Cao Liqiang, Secretary of the CPC Xuhui District Committee, Wang Hua, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Xuhui District Committee and District Mayor, along with leaders from various municipal departments.
Guo Kai, Standing Committee member of the CPC Committee and Vice President of Shanghai Theatre Academy, attended the meeting on behalf of the academy and accepted two honors related to the academy.
This conference aimed to thoroughly implement the national strategic deployment to accelerate the development of "AI+", promote the in-depth and practical advancement of the AI industry, build a "Shanghai Highland" for artificial intelligence, and create a world-class AI industry cluster. The highlights of the event included the release of the first batch of "Modeling Shapes Shanghai" industry application demonstration bases in Shanghai. These bases are designed to develop productivity tools in key areas such as intelligent terminals, scientific intelligence, the new online economy, autonomous driving, and embodied intelligence by constructing foundational infrastructures like intelligent computing power clusters, corpus supply systems, virtual and real integrated training fields, and large industry base models. The focus is on accelerating the application empowerment in key industries such as finance, manufacturing, education, healthcare, culture and tourism, and urban governance.
Shanghai Theatre Academy's "Entertainment Design Vertical Large Model Integrated Application Scenario" was awarded the title of "AI+ Entertainment Design" Application Demonstration Base.
Shanghai Theatre Academy has long been deeply involved in the cultural and tourism sector. This application base actively develops scenarios such as AI stage design and scriptwriting, aiming to solve the full-process intelligent problems of performance design through technological innovation, providing new application scenarios for AI development and promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of the performance industry.
Based on the establishment of the "Operation Base for China-BRICS Artificial Intelligence Development and Cooperation Centre" in Xuhui, Xuhui District released ten AI+ action plans at the conference. As one of the important participants in Shanghai's intelligent corpus development, Shanghai Theatre Academy was awarded the title of "Excellent Corpus Partner" in Xuhui District.
With the promotion of this conference, Shanghai Theatre Academy will further implement the national strategic deployment to accelerate the development of "AI+", deeply integrate into Shanghai's "AI+" strategic action, use technological breakthroughs as an engine, and empower the implementation of application practice of AI scenarios in an accelerated manner, thus contributing "STA Strength" to the creation of a world-class artificial intelligence industry ecosystem.
