The chatbot's combination of AI and speech-recognition technology has already paid dividends in efficiency and lower costs compared with human-based customer service — and may ultimately replace call-center staff altogether.
The city's commerce bureau said a total of 42 purchasers from more than 20 countries and regions had direct online talks and consultations with suppliers based in Ningbo through the online exhibition.
The city also aims to build itself into an international sports trade center and to enhance its research and development and equipment manufacturing.
The city has issued seven license plates to five companies - SAIC, Nio, BMW, TuSimple and Momenta - to conduct self-driving road tests. The last two firms will use their plates to test autonomous trucks.
The central bank warned in the notice that acute problems such as excessive lending and borrowing, extremely high interest rates, improper debt collection and privacy infringement have emerged in the industry and they could lead to financial and social risks.
The city's meteorological office has issued 15 orange alerts and three red alerts about high temperatures in recent weeks. The extreme heat has resulted in at least four deaths and countless reports of heatstroke and other illnesses.
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The city's continuous efforts in urban planning has made it a good incubator for businesses in both traditional and emerging sectors, he said. "More importantly, businesses from both sectors are creating a synergistic effect, which makes the city special for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and an integral part of the region's overall development," Zhou added.
The center will handle tens of millions of parcels every year to meet the surging cross-border e-commerce needs of global small and medium-sized enterprises, bringing an incremental cargo volume of approximately 1.7 million tons per year to one of the world's business cargo airports, once the center operates in full capacity.
The city released a public notice on Feb 14 that required all residential communities to be locked down to reduce population movement and curb transmissions of the contagion.
The charging network is expected to help Volkswagen meet its ambitious goal of selling 400,000 new energy vehicles a year in China by 2020 and 1.5 million by 2025.