User:JianiW/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Artificial intelligence industry in China

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)


 * The reason why I chose this article is because I have spent lots of my undergraduate researching on the Chinese laws and regulations that relate to its artificial intelligence development. I personally found the intersection of technology and its public role of private business is extremely fascinating to me. Most my research works have related to organize and profile the broad picture of Beijing's vision of AI development, as well as other high domains. My understanding of this wiki page should be an 'introduction' to provide a broader but detailed information about the current status quo of AI industry in China.


 * This subject fits the current ongoing discussion about the global technological competition. The latest 14th Five-Year Plans again emphasized the strategic role that artificial intelligence plays in China's national development. AI in China has been a hot topic catching news headline and attention from both private and public sectors, yet this page is very vague and brief about AI industry development.


 * My preliminary impression of this page is that it's very hard for me to navigate the page and to find key messages. Lots of paragraphs and formats made reader very hard to concentrate and read through. Also, it only has a brief timeline with pointing out 2006 as the year that China firstly mentioned AI in its national policy. But it lacks of more detailed information about how Beijing's vision of AI and China in the context of global technology competition evolved over time.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)


 * The lead section well addressed the page topic in a very concise manner with clear demonstration of the significance of AI industry in China with specific net-worth estimation value. However, the lead section did not explain the major sections that are included in this wiki page. While there is no redundancy between the lead section and the following sections, the lead section is over simplified and failed to provide a brief description of the major sections in this article.
 * In terms of content, the current page did good job explaining the history of AI industry in China and provided multiple key government documents that set up AI as the key development area for China. The 'history' and 'industry development' sections included majority of important governmental goal and events during the Xi's period, but China's development on AI has been long-existing before that. There are lots of statistical data about total amount of government and public investment on artificial intelligence development. But it did not discussed about where these investment has been put into. Another noticeable issue with the 'industry development' section is that it lacks a clear logic line for the audience to follow and there are 'jump-around' with chronological orders. This might be hard for the audience to follow, especially the ones that might not have lots of background knowledge on the subject. For the 'notable companies' section, it's mainly name-dropping and failed to explain what these companies do, as well as these companies' market dominance and domestica and global market share distribution. It would also be nice to include a comparison of these companies with foreign firms in the same fields. For the 'reception' section, it's very military focused, which did not present a whole picture of AI industry in China. Without doubt, military is one important aspect of AI for any nation, but the way how it was presented currently almost made impression that developing AI industry is mainly military motivated, which left lots of other aspect out.
 * In terms of tone, the page mostly started in a neutral tone since lots of information is missing and oversimplified in the page. Editors mainly structured sentences in the format of stating 'China/the government did ( _ )', which are factual statements. At the same time, the viewpoint need to be rebalanced by adding information and viewpoints from non-government statement. In the current page, lots of paragraphs are fact or quotes from China's government statement. The private sector activities and intranational/international AI development are both not represented in this page.
 * In terms of sources and reference, the page lacks of secondary references. This is also mentioned in 'talk' page. From personal research, I know 2020 is a benchmark for lots of China's national AI development blueprint. Lots of sources are from 2017-2019. Given China's unprecedented developing speed on AI and technological innovation in general, the page could lack of latest and updated information about China's AI industry development from both macro and micro levels. But I do need to do more research in order to confirm about this.
 * The writing quality is pretty good and editors did good job paraphrasing all the documents. Paragraphs are mostly written in a concise and professional manner with clear and accurate citations. Personally, orders of some contents could be rearranged in order to let the logic flow more smoothly, but it did not impact reading.
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