One of the world's main priorities is to find new engines of growth.

Now China is cutting edge scientists are concentrating on artificial intelligence, one of the tech world's buzziest words. 

Dr. Liu has been studying artificial intelligence since graduate school, and has obtained a doctor's degree for two years. He works for Watrix, an A.I. company based in Beijing. 

“I chose A.I. because I think it is very interesting, ” he said..

Similar to face recognition, Watrix uses A.I. to recognize identities by analyzing a person's body shape and walking posture. 

“The development of A.I. technology is very fast. We have to adapt to the quick changes and keep learning. It's very interesting, but also challenging, ” Liu added. 

Recently, LinkedIn released a list of the fastest growing jobs. In this list, the artificial intelligence experts ranked first. 

LinkedIn said that with the development of the computer software, internet, and information technology industries, the artificial intelligence professional career has grown by 74 percent annually over the past five years. Moreover, the specialists in this field get an average annual salary of $136,000 in the U.S.. 

According to Alibaba, sometimes AI engineers are even more expensive to hire in China than in the Silicon Valley. 

Huang Yongzhen is the founder and CEO of Watrix. With many years experience in the academic area and commercialization, he shared with us what the industry really needs from A.I. professionals. 

“A.I. has a history of only about 60 years. But the changes have been very fast. When I was a PHD candidate, we were studying more about the theory and less about the engineering. Now the A.I. technology is heavily relying on data and computing power, ” Huang said.

China has been accelerating the development of A.I. makes it a new engine of economic development. Analysts say the development of A.I. will have a profound changes in the job market, leading to some job losses while creating new opportunities. How to ready the country's workforce for the upcoming changes is also a pressing issue.

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