Baidu AI Cloud Public Sector China Translated from Chinese

Chongqing Meteorological Bureau (重庆市气象局)

Real-time Analytics

Chongqing needed more accurate weather forecasting and faster warning delivery across a large observation network, but conventional numerical forecasting and fragmented infrastructure were limiting the bureau's ability to process data and respond to severe weather quickly.

Hail and gale recognition reached 100% in major severe-weather events.
Monthly precipitation forecast accuracy improved 6 points.
Monthly temperature forecast accuracy improved 16 points.
Sending warnings to 1.6 million responsible recipients was reduced from more than 2 hours to about 9 minutes.

Reported impact

Business outcome

Chongqing improved forecast precision, accelerated warning delivery, and created a cloud-based weather-intelligence backbone that supports both emergency response and domain-specific public services.

  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Risk Reduction

Solution

Baidu AI Cloud helped the Chongqing Meteorological Bureau build a cloud-and-AI meteorological platform that links data ingestion, model training, alerting, and public-service delivery. At the data layer, the Tianzhu big-data platform and meteorological cloud-resource center aggregate observations from satellites, Doppler radars, and thousands of weather stations. On top of that base, PaddlePaddle-powered deep-learning workflows support the Tianzi intelligent forecasting system and related severe-weather models, while Yutian warning services connect hazard signals to responsibility networks and mass-message delivery. The same stack also supports domain services such as agriculture, tourism, and water conservancy through the Zhitian service layer. Instead of treating forecasting, warning, and sector services as separate systems, the bureau now uses one cloud foundation where data collection, AI prediction, emergency communication, and industry-facing meteorological services reinforce each other.

Data flow

Observation data from satellites, radars, and weather stations enters the Tianzhu platform and cloud resource center, where deep-learning models are trained through PaddlePaddle. Forecasting outputs feed Tianzi prediction services and Yutian warning workflows, which then distribute alerts or domain services to agricultural, tourism, water-management, and public-safety stakeholders.

Solution architecture

6 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • Meteorological Cloud Resource Center Supplies cloud compute and storage so Chongqing can process, analyze, and model weather data at scale.
    • PaddlePaddle Deep Learning Platform Supports model training and severe-weather forecasting on top of Chongqing's meteorological datasets.
  2. Storage
    • Tianzhu Big Data Platform Aggregates observation data and provides the data foundation for forecasting and alerting workflows.
  3. Serving
    • Tianzi Intelligent Forecasting System Generates AI-enhanced temperature, precipitation, and short-term severe-weather forecasts.
    • Yutian Intelligent Warning System Matches risk signals to recipients and distributes warning messages rapidly during severe events.
    • Zhitian Smart Service System Packages meteorological intelligence into services for domains such as agriculture, tourism, and water conservancy.

Architecture clues

  • Deep-learning forecasting and large-scale warning delivery are both first-class parts of the architecture.
  • Forecasting, warning, and domain-service applications all share the same underlying data and cloud-resource foundation.
  • The solution merges municipal observation infrastructure with shared provincial and neighboring data sources.

Evidence from the source

Deep learning improved monthly temperature forecasts by 16 points and precipitation forecasts by 6 points, while hail and gale recognition reached 100% in severe events (original: 月气温预测准确率提高了16分,月降水预测准确率提高了6分…冰雹、大风识别命中率达到100%).
The Tianzhu platform connects 8 satellites, 4 local Doppler radars, 2,000+ local stations, plus 10 shared radars and nearly 10,000 shared stations (original: 对接8颗观测卫星、自建4部多普勒雷达和2000多个地面气象观测站、与周边省份气象部门共享10部多普勒雷达和近万个地面观测站的数据).
The bureau built an internationally leading meteorological AI deep-learning platform with Baidu AI Cloud (original: 重庆市气象局联手百度智能云打造国际领先的气象AI深度学习平台).
Warning delivery speed increased from 160 messages per second to 3,000 per second, reducing 1.6 million-recipient notification time from over 2 hours to about 9 minutes (original: 可以将短信发布速率从每秒160条提升到每秒3000条…将预警信息发送给160万预警责任人,以前要2个多小时,现在只需要9分钟左右).
Transparency Evidence & methodology 100/100 reference value · 89% confidence · 1 source

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Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value100/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    5 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence89%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    4 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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    Chongqing Meteorological Bureau (重庆市气象局) customer story

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    May 14, 2025
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