AI Research in the People's Republic of China: A Review

Since the 1970’s AI research has become very active in China and certain results have been achieved. This paper is intended to review briefly what was and is going on in the M field in China IN CHINA AI RESEARCH was begun early in the 1960’s, but it was confined to a small circle until the end of the decade. After that, many university departments awarding majors in computer science were organized. They tried to expand the applications of the computer and to develop theories. Meanwhile, the computer was also expected to improve process control. Considerable efforts were made for this purpose, but these brought few notable results, as a practical process is too complex to identify. However a veteran worker or a technician often manages somewhat better than a computer in process control. This fact suggested to scientists that AI might be a more successful approach. To tackle some obviously fascinating problems linguists and