Photo taken on June 24, 2022 shows the online opening ceremony of the 6th World Intelligence Congress and Summit on Innovation and Development in north China's Tianjin. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)

TIANJIN, June 25  -- The sixth World Intelligence Congress (WIC), a major artificial intelligence (AI) event in China, kicked off in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Friday.

The two-day event, with the theme of "New Era of Intelligence: Digitalization Drives Growth, Intelligence Wins Future," will display the latest achievements in the intelligence industry at an exhibition area of 3,000 square meters.

A total of 30 parallel forums will be held online, focusing on cutting-edge technologies such as XR, AI, 3D and motion capture.

Since its inauguration in 2017, the event has offered a platform for scientists, entrepreneurs and economists from home and abroad to discuss the frontier trends of intelligence technologies.

At the event this year, entrepreneurs and economists said that the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation represented by artificial intelligence will reconstruct the global innovation map and reshape the global economic structure.