China-Japan collaboration bearing fruit
Both countries should leverage each other's unique advantages, experts say
China and Japan should achieve an extraordinary level of technological and industrial cooperation by leveraging each other's unique advantages, experts from the two countries said.
They made the remarks at a dialogue with the theme "China in Springtime — Sharing Opportunities with the World" in Tokyo on Monday.
They particularly named China's impressive advancements in artificial intelligence innovation.
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, from 2014 to 2023, China produced more than 38,000 generative AI-related inventions — six times more than the second-ranking United States. Additionally, five of the world's top 10 GenAI patent applicants were Chinese companies.
"As AI advances, China's manufacturing capabilities will reach an unprecedented level in human history, fundamentally reshaping the global economy," said Hidetoshi Tashiro, chief economist at Infinity LLC, a Japanese consulting firm advising on stock trading and real estate management.
Japan-China collaboration in AI is already underway. Speaking at the dialogue in Tokyo, which was hosted by the Chinese embassy in Japan and China Media Group on Monday, Tashiro highlighted an autonomous vehicle test in Beijing, where a Toyota Lexus was equipped with China's Pony.ai self-driving system.
