BEIJING - Beijing issued an action plan on developing artificial intelligence (AI) and established an AI research institute Wednesday to promote the AI industry.

Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA) was selected as the only national-level green manufacturing park in Beijing, according to a list recently-released list by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Beijing will carry out a series of measures in fields including financing, tax reduction and increasing project opportunities to support the development of private companies, the city's mayor Chen Jining said on Monday.

Chinese e-commerce platforms including Alibaba, JD, Pinduoduo, Suning and Vipshop announced their sales and orders figures of Nov 11 Singles Day sales festival, with numbers reaching new highs.

The 2018 IC World Conference opened in the capital’s Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA), on Oct 22.

JD Daojia, a major Chinese online-to-offline platform that connects online demands with offline merchants, set a new record for daily peak orders, with total sales three times higher than last year's Singles Day online shopping gala.