Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining met Turing Award winner and Openmind
Institute chief scientist Richard Sutton at the 2026 World Artificial
Intelligence Conference. Chen said AI is one of Shanghai’s three priority
industries and pledged to strengthen basic research, cultivate and optimize the
innovation ecosystem, accelerate construction of an AI development and
governance innovation hub, and provide efficient, open services to support
global scientists and talent. Sutton welcomed deeper cooperation on basic
research and talent exchange with Shanghai.