Artificial intelligence will be integrated into six key areas: science and technology, industrial development, consumption quality improvement, public welfare, governance capacity, and global cooperation.
On August 26, the “Opinions on Deepening the Implementation of the ‘AI+’ Initiative” (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”) was officially released. The document focuses on the aforementioned six key areas, deeply analyzes the transformative impact of AI on various industries and sectors, and strategically plans the focal points for the “AI+” initiative. Notably, the Opinions for the first time outline the development of intelligent-native new technologies, new business models, and new formats, and also propose for the first time a comprehensive intelligent transformation path for the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries.
Simultaneously, the Opinions set three-phase targets for 2027, 2030, and 2035. By 2027, AI is expected to achieve extensive and deep integration with the six key areas, with the adoption rate of new-generation smart terminals and intelligent agents exceeding 70%. The core AI industry is projected to grow rapidly, AI’s role in public governance will significantly strengthen, and the open cooperation system for AI will continue to improve. By 2030, AI will comprehensively empower high-quality development, with the adoption rate of new-generation smart terminals and intelligent agents surpassing 90%. The intelligent economy will become a major growth driver for China’s economic development, promoting technological inclusivity and shared benefits. By 2035, China will fully enter a new stage of intelligent economy and society, providing strong support for the basic realization of socialist modernization.
Deploying “AI+” Initiatives in Six Key Areas
“After initial market validation, AI has demonstrated the capability to solve complex problems in real-world scenarios, increasingly highlighting its role in reducing costs, improving efficiency, and enhancing total factor productivity. There is unprecedented strong demand for AI applications across society, marking a critical window for implementation.”
Driven by industry application needs and considering both domestic and international contexts, the Opinions propose six major “AI+” initiatives: “AI+” Science and Technology, “AI+” Industrial Development, “AI+” Consumption Quality Improvement, “AI+” Public Welfare, “AI+” Governance Capacity, and “AI+” Global Cooperation.
In “AI+” Science and Technology, the Opinions suggest accelerating the scientific discovery process by exploring new AI-driven research paradigms and speeding up major scientific breakthroughs from “0 to 1”. In “AI+” Public Welfare, the document proposes creating smarter work methods by leveraging AI to generate new jobs and enhance traditional roles, exploring human-machine collaborative organizational structures and management models, and fostering innovative work forms like intelligent agents, especially in labor-scarce and high-risk environments.
For “AI+” Governance Capacity, the Opinions aim to create a new landscape of human-machine coexistence in social governance by promoting the intelligent upgrade of municipal infrastructure, exploring urban planning, construction, and management for new-generation smart terminals, and enhancing the intelligence of urban operations. In “AI+” Global Cooperation, the document advocates for promoting AI as a global public good for the benefit of humanity, building an open ecosystem for AI capacity development that is equitable, mutually trusting, diverse, and win-win.
The deep implementation of the six “AI+” initiatives revolves around different participants—scientific researchers, industry enterprises, consumers, the general public, government departments, and countries worldwide—with a core focus on “newness”. From the perspective of scientific researchers, AI is used to开拓 new research paradigms and accelerate discovery. For industry enterprises, AI fosters new industrial formats and transforms development models to create more value. Consumers benefit from expanded new consumption scenarios and higher-quality products and services. The public experiences new ways of working, learning, and living, making AI better serve people. Government departments utilize AI to open new governance patterns, accelerating共建共治共享. For countries globally, AI opens new cooperation spaces, promoting common prosperity.
“The ‘AI+’ initiative represents a historic opportunity for China to participate in the restructuring of global productivity as a leader in technological innovation and application practice. We are promoting a良性循环 development model where innovation drives application and application fosters innovation, providing more possibilities for超大-scale economies to complete modernization转型.” Major historical reforms have always been mass-driven; the “AI+” action requires重构 paradigms in scientific discovery,居民生活, enterprise production, social governance, and open cooperation,打通 a synergistic闭环 among technological innovation, industrial development, consumption quality improvement,民生改善, governance capacity, and global cooperation. “Its essence is to推动 every social主体共同参与到这场社会变革.”
The document systematically lays out key actions for “AI+” in six areas: technology, industry, consumption, public welfare, governance, and global cooperation, progressively advancing the large-scale commercial application of AI. This indicates that China’s AI technology industry has entered a “critical period
