The achievements of Artificial Intelligence Industry Promotion Association was released on July 18, when the CEC Digital Technology Co., Ltd. was also officially put into operation in Ningxiang Economic & Technological Development Zone (NETDZ).
With an investment of 250 million yuan, the CEC digital technology project (phase I) has the largest smart retail service terminal production line in China, and can produce 200,000 smart vending machines a year.

Customers can scan a QR code to buy any goods from the smart cabinet, such as food and beverage, masks and fresh agricultural products. Every product sold on the vending machine produced by CEC Digital Technology can be traced back to the whole process.

Vending machine was born in the 1960s and 1970s, and the China's vending machine market started late, with a vending machine for more than 2,000 people on average at present. Since 2012, China's vending machine market has been developing rapidly, with an average annual growth rate of nearly 30%. 

The intelligent cabinet produced by CEC Digital Technology adopts the full-automatic ecological mode of Phytium chips plus Kirin operating system. It's an independent and reliable digital retail service terminal product, which has obvious advantages in communication chain, positioning and independent security.

"The completion of CEC Digital Technology project is another achievement in promoting the Three Hubs and Four New Missions Strategy, and also a grand event for high-quality development of the industry. Built by CEC Internet Company, this project can realize an annual output of 200,000 agricultural product counters. It provides an innovative one-stop solution of 'assistance counter plus platform operation', helps hundreds of millions of farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich, and contributes its strength to the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and a better-off society," said Zhang Yi, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of NETDZ.