The People’s Bank of China’s FinTech Development Plan 2019–2021, dated August 2019, states in its preface that it was compiled to set out the guiding ideas, principles, goals, key tasks and safeguards of China’s fintech development for 2019 to 2021; among its tasks is the steady application of artificial intelligence (任务（六）稳步应用人工智能).

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