Zhao Yiwei and Li Xinran

Jiading is using professional elderly care institutions to pro-vide local seniors with nursing services at their homes from next month, particularly for those with mental health or mobility issues.

Such institutions are expect-ed to offer more transparent, professional and tailored el-derly care service to fulfill the special needs and requirements of senior citizens.

a test run of the new service will be launched at some local communities, such as Jiading Town Community, where local senior citizens will receive nurs-ing, medical care, rehabilitation and spiritual comfort services.

Local residents aged 60 and above are eligible to apply after an assessment of their physical condition.

at present, Jiading Town Com-munity has five daycare centers and it has been promoting the elderly care services there.

Three of the centers are oper-ated by third-party institutions. Most elderly people are happy with the service as they enjoy dining, reading and traditional operas. They may also take a nap anytime they would like to.

Each senior citizen included in the scheme can book more than 40 homecare services and pays no more than 20 yuan (US$3.11) a day.

From next January, the home-care service will be linked to long-term care insurance. insur-ers pay 10 percent of the service charge and the rest is covered by the insurance fund.

For disabled seniors, Jiading will provide a comprehensive solution that combines hospital treatment, nursing home reha-bilitation and long-term home care.

The district also encourages social organizations and en-terprises to provide home care services and operate nursing homes in communities.

Gu Xianhui and Li Xinran

Horizon robotics has released China’s first two world-leading embedded ai computer vision chips — the Journey 1.0 pro-cessor for smart driving and Sunrise 1.0 processor for smart cameras.

The Jading-based company is also the developer of China’s first automated valet parking project which has passed the road tests.

as a leading technology pow-erhouse of embedded artificial intelligence, the company is dedicated to providing inte-grated and open embedded ai solutions of high performance,

low power and low cost. it equips smart cameras and

cars with “brains,” turning them into intelligent entities that have the abilities of perception and understanding to decision-making for convenience, safety and fun.

after two years of research and development, Horizon ro-botics unveiled China’s first brain processing unit based, proprietary gauss-architecture embedded ai computer vision processors — Journey and Sun-rise, to power smart vehicles and cameras.

The company designs com-puter chips good at running

neural networks, which are widely used by search giants and driverless cars alike. it also makes software and computing clouds tailored for the chips that can be installed in all sorts of smart gadgets.

it has also completed a US$100 million funding round led by intel Capital to build a proto-type driverless car.

The funds will go toward hir-ing more engineers as well as research and development, co-founder Kai Yu said.

other investors include Har-vest investments, Hillhouse Capital, Wu Capital, Morning-side Venture Capital.

New museum celebrates art of animation

Better services for our senior citizens

Smart chips are world leaders

Blossom at its best •Residents capture the yellow plum blossom flowers, which are at their best at the moment, at Jiading’s Guyi Garden. Around the garden’s Plum Blossom Hall are planted hundreds of plum blossom trees of a dozen varieties. Cobblestones, porcelain and tiles are shaped into various plum blossom patterns on the paths. Inside the hall there are more than 20 stone tablets with inscriptions of poems and calligraphies about the flowers by renowned scholars. — Qin Yichao

Clipping the vines •Farmers are busy clipping grape vines in the Wenxing Grapes Garden in Jiading’s Huating Town before grapes go dormant in the cold weather. The reason to clip the vines is to balance the growth of vines and fruit, aiming to keep the vines fruitful in the future. — Qin Yichao

“The animation roles on the wall let me remember the moment that I hid comic books in my desk and watched animation shows after dinner during my school days.”

as part of the effort to promote tradi-tional Chinese graphic novels.

Teachers from Shanghai University School of arts and the city’s comic cen-ter were invited to teach students how to draw comic strips. Students produce ani-mation films based on their own work. They will take part in animation shoot-ing, dubbing, post-production, video games, making virtual reality effects and 3d printing in the next phase.

Li Huacheng and Li Xinran

an animation film museum has been established at Jiading’s Huajiang Primary School, the first of its kind in the country.

The museum offers visitors an oppor-tunity to access original works, learn the history of domestic animation film development and even take part in ani-mation production.

an animation film innovation cen-ter was also launched recently at the school.

a graffiti wall outside the museum is full of figures in well-known animation films.

“The animation roles on the wall let me remember the moment that i hid comic books in my desk and watched

animation shows after dinner during my school days,” said ding dan, an art teacher at the school.

The animation film innovation center occupies an area of 200 square meters and consists of four parts for exhibi-tions, entertaining, experiencing and practice respectively.

The history and development of car-toon and animation film as well as works by famous artists, such as Feng zikai and zhang Leping, are on display at the center.

The center’s collection also includes traditional Chinese graphic novels. Such books, typically bound with string and printed on paper a quarter the size of standard a4 sheets, were once a major form of popular culture in China. For adults and children alike, they offered

an easy and vivid window into a world of knowledge and literature.

Because of their popularity, many of China’s most skilled writers and artists turned their hands toward producing graphic novels in decades gone by.

Stamps and postcards featuring ani-mation are also part of the collection. all 300 pieces are from publishing houses and collectors. The school even imported an animation film projector from Japan

2 News Tuesday 30 January 2018