Tianjin will make a big push to foster the high-end industrial chain, introduce more innovative high-tech companies, create a high-tech and high-end innovation platform and pursue the application of smart technologies, local government said.

Now, Tianjin has rolled out a series of supportive policies to develop the blossoming artificial intelligence sector as it aims to inject new impetus into the city's economic growth.

In the first half of this year, the city's GDP surged 4.6 percent year-on-year to about 1.04 trillion yuan ($150 billion), official data showed.

Last December, Tianjin unveiled a three-year plan to boost the innovative development of seven AI-related industrial chains, including the independent and controllable information system, smart security, big data, advanced communications, intelligent connected vehicles, industrial robots and intelligent terminals.

The new plan aims to complete the transformation of the city into an AI innovation center and a hub of AI industries and AI innovative applications in 2020.

Last May, Tianjin set up a 100 billion yuan fund to invest in AI technologies, focusing on emerging fields including robots, smart software and hardware as well as intelligent vehicles.

Buoyed by supportive government policies, Tianjin has attracted a wide range of companies to expand in the booming smart technologies market, including Sugon, Huawei, Lenovo and Inspur.

Sugon, a leading Chinese supercomputer manufacturer, is beefing up efforts to build a national-level advanced computing innovation center in Tianjin, considering the burgeoning demand for computing power. The center is set to be completed in 2021.