国际学术交流英语 welcome speech

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Welcome Speech by Mr. Wang Dekun Ladies and Gentlemen:

It is a great honor for us to have the Sixth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (CAIA) held here in Nanjing, the capital of our Province. I am Wang Dekun, mayor of Nanjing City. Please allow me on behalf of the Jiangsu Provincial Government and myself to extend my warmest congratulations on the convening1of this conference. I would also like to warmly welcome you—all the conference participants home and abroad to the conference.

Jiangsu is one of the most developed provinces in China. It is known for its strength and potential for further development in industry, agriculture, science and technology, culture, education, etc. Jiangsu is such a congenial place that it attracts talented people from everywhere. Since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening, Jiangsu Province has made great and rapid advancement in various aspect of its economic and cultural life. It has also made remarkable achievements in the past few years in its exchange and cooperation with foreign countries.

CAIA will no doubt be a new impetus2 to the development of Jiangsu, which sits in the middle between conferences that are almost purely theoretical and those that are almost purely applications oriented. The purpose of this conference is to educate the professional software engineer in how to apply AI techniques to real problems. We are honored to invite some distinguished experts to give keynote speeches, focusing on the boundary between theory and practice; in particular, on representations and problem solving techniques and their demonstrated application to real problems. Consequently, there is a conjoint emphasis on “what” (the application) and “how” (the method). Thus, CAIA will provide the opportunity for researchers and engineers who are interested in “real world” applications to share their ideas and experiences.

I sincerely applaud the opening of this conference, which is indeed a platform of technological exchange for guest experts and scholars home and abroad. I believe, by way of this conference, the relationship between us will be strengthened and we will innovate more beneficial solutions through the use of artificial intelligence technologies.

I would like all of you to feel at home here in China and wish the conference a great success.

Thank you. self-introduction

welcoming the participants

introducing the host province

information about the conference: purpose, characteristics, etc.

significance of the conference

expressing good wishes