Digital boom, AI growth bring Qingyang good fortune

LANZHOU — On a windswept plateau in northwestern China, 29-year-old Wang Ting sat in front of a computer, with her eyes darting across a cascade of images depicting bustling urban streets in the southern Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen in Guangdong province.

With meticulous precision, she marked vehicles, pedestrians and traffic signs on the screen. Outside her window, the landscape was a vast expanse of endless yellow hills, their raw beauty forming a striking contrast to the vibrant cityscapes that filled her digital world.

Once a migrant worker, Wang has now returned to her hometown. She is employed as an artificial intelligence trainer for autonomous driving projects, one of China's most cutting-edge emerging sectors. The data she annotated will become key "human knowledge" for training advanced self-driving systems.