The digital yuan application covers more than 50,000 scenarios of the Winter Olympics

On February 9, the reporter visited the "Winter Olympic Sign Language Broadcast Digital People" project in Zhongguancun. Issued by China News Agency

The economic sector related to the Winter Olympics has risen against the trend as early as a few months ago, and the Nandu reporter combed and found that it includes ice and snow industries directly related to the Winter Olympics, such as ice and snow tourism, ice and snow sports, etc. In addition, under the background of the themes of "Winter Olympics of Science and Technology" and "Winter Olympics of Wisdom", technologies and applications such as digital yuan and artificial intelligence have also ushered in new opportunities for development.

Snow tourism

340 million people participated, and 670 billion yuan was in the bag

According to the Statistical Survey Report on "Driving 300 Million People to Participate in Ice and Snow Sports" commissioned by the State General Administration of Sport to the National Bureau of Statistics, from the successful bid for the Winter Olympic Games to October 2021, the number of residents in the country who have participated in ice and snow sports is 346 million, and the participation rate of ice and snow sports is 24.56%, achieving the goal of driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports.

The report of Tianfeng Securities shows that after the domestic epidemic has been effectively controlled, the mainland ice and snow industry has begun to recover, and on the whole, the ice and snow industry has not decreased. The 2022 Winter Olympics and other multiple favorable circumstances are expected to usher in a new round of development of the ice and snow industry. Snow tourism will become the core engine of winter tourism and the ice and snow economy. According to the latest achievements of the China Tourism Research Institute, it is expected that the number of mainland ice and snow tourists will reach 340 million in the ice and snow season from 2021 to 2022, and the revenue will reach 670 billion yuan.

Digital Yuan

The pilot areas present a "10+1" pattern

According to the data released by the central bank, by the end of 2021, the number of digital yuan pilot scenarios has exceeded 8.0851 million, compared with the data on June 30 of that year, and the number of scenes has increased by 6 times in half a year. The Beijing Winter Olympics, which opened on February 4, are also an important scene for the digital yuan pilot.

The digital yuan is a legal tender in digital form issued by the People's Bank of China, and the current pilot area presents a "10+1" pattern, which is piloted for Shenzhen, Suzhou, Xiong'an, Chengdu, Shanghai, Changsha, Hainan, Qingdao, Dalian, Xi'an and Beijing Winter Olympics scenarios.

It is reported that at present, the application of digital yuan has covered more than 50,000 scenes such as venues, hotels, restaurants, merchants, postal services, transportation, and medical care in the Zhangjiakou area of the Winter Olympics, and a total of 7 million public and private wallets have been opened.

In addition, the mobile payment application market in Zhangjiakou of the Winter Olympics has been expanding, and various mainstream mobile payment methods have fully covered various life scenarios such as "food, housing, travel, travel, entertainment, and shopping". Especially in the transportation field related to the Winter Olympic Games, mobile payment has covered various scenarios such as taxi, bus, high-speed rail station, airport, bus station, and high-speed toll collection.

A staff member at the scene of the Winter Olympics told Nandu Reporter that the use of digital yuan payment in the competition area is not much different from Alipay and WeChat payment, but it is relatively safer. The biggest convenience is that "sometimes the venue network maintenance, if there is no signal, you can also use the digital yuan as usual." ”

"Winter Olympics on the Clouds"

Technology applications such as AR allow audiences to be immersed

A month before the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics have completed the migration of core systems to the cloud. This is the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that cloud computing has replaced traditional IT, carrying the organization and operation of the Olympic Games. In the past, each Olympics required the construction of traditional IT machine rooms repeatedly and demolished after a brief use of the games. After moving to the cloud, the cost of IT infrastructure has dropped significantly, and the application development and deployment process has been shortened.

Going to the clouds is one of the important measures of the Green Winter Olympics. Compared with the traditional machine room, the Winter Olympic Cloud Data Center in Zhangbei achieves 100% mechanical refrigeration through natural air cooling, immersion liquid cooling, intelligent temperature regulation and other technologies, reducing thermal energy consumption to more than 70%.

In addition to energy conservation and environmental protection, the "comprehensive cloud" of the Beijing Winter Olympics has also brought a better viewing experience, according to reports, on the basis of the cloud, the application of visual intelligence, algorithms, AR and other technologies in the arena allows the audience to be immersed. For example, through multi-angle intelligent synthesis technology, multi-array video is combined into a panoramic dynamic picture, which brings more dimensions of viewing perspectives for races such as speed skating and curling.

"Winter Olympics of Science and Technology"

Digital human "sign language anchors" serve the hearing impaired

Under the concept of "Winter Olympics of Science and Technology", the application of intelligent technologies such as AI is rapidly breaking the boundary between the digital world and the real world.

During the Curling Competition of the Winter Olympic Games, SenseTime joined hands with China Mobile Migu, the official broadcaster of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, to present the trajectory curve of curling during the competition in the form of live broadcast and analysis commentary. For the average audience, this technology can help better understand the rules of curling and the current state of the game.

The application of artificial intelligence technology at the Beijing Winter Olympics also includes a digital human "sign language anchor", which can not only report the news, but also conduct live broadcast of the sign language of the event, which will bring good news to the hearing impaired.

AI anchors are sign language translation engines and natural action engines driven by technologies such as speech recognition and natural speech understanding, with the ability of sign language expression and sign language presentation effects, and can provide professional and accurate sign language interpretation. It is reported that the first AI sign language anchor has "real person-like" skin, hair, eyes, the image is kind and natural, created by CCTV News and Baidu Intelligent Cloud.

Written by: Nandu reporter Ma Ningning Wang Chenchen

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