# Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau and Huawei Cloud launch Zhiji, a 3 km regional AI forecast built on Pangu-Weather

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/stories/shenzhen-meteorological-bureau-and-huawei-cloud-launch-zhiji-a-3-km-164adcc0
Date: 23 Mar 2024
About: [Huawei](https://technooptimist.io/companies/huawei.md) · [Pangu-Weather](https://technooptimist.io/ai/pangu-weather.md)
Original source: https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/news/20240325084358116.html

Shenzhen's weather bureau and Huawei Cloud put Zhiji into use, a regional model built on Pangu-Weather and fine-tuned on local data. It forecasts temperature, rain and wind five days ahead for Shenzhen and nearby areas at 3 km, against about 25 km for typical global models.

## Key facts

- In a trial from February 2024 it accurately predicted several cold spells.
- The team named precipitation forecasts as the area to improve next.
- Pangu-Weather forecasts had been public on the ECMWF website since August 2023.

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