Shanghai includes metaverse in its development plan

Shanghai includes metaverse in its development plan

Shanghai’s five-year plan calls for the use of a metaverse in public services, businesses, entertainment and industrial manufacturing. Shanghai, China’s most crowded city, is looking for ways to use a metaverse in public services over the next five years.Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology’s five-year development plan for the electronic information industry listed four frontiers for exploration, and one of them is the metaverse.According to a CNBC report, the paper called for promoting the metaverse’s use in public services, business offices, social leisure,....


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