China's "AI Plus" plan aims to elevate artificial intelligence from just a technical tool to a core engine for restructuring industry, boosting productivity, reshaping production paradigms, and reorganizing value chains to drive economic growth. The initiative is a strategic priority to use AI as a key driver for high-quality development amid challenges like a shrinking workforce and geopolitical pressures.
Key goals include:
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By 2027, deep integration of AI across six critical sectors—science and technology, industry, consumption upgrades, people's well-being, governance, and global cooperation—with more than 70% penetration of next-generation intelligent terminals and AI agents. The intelligent economy's core industries are expected to expand rapidly during this time.
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By 2030, the penetration rate of smart terminals and AI agents should exceed 90%, making AI a significant driver of China’s economic growth.
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By 2035, China aims to reach a mature phase of intelligent economy and society, comprehensively supported by AI, providing strong support for socialist modernization.
The directive calls for accelerating AI-driven scientific discovery by developing large-scale scientific models and interdisciplinary datasets, and improving AI innovation capacity and infrastructure. Industrial transformation is a major focus, promoting AI-native business models and widespread AI application in agriculture, manufacturing, services, and public governance.
The plan includes investments in intelligent computing infrastructure, chip development, open-source AI ecosystems, and talent cultivation. It also prioritizes autonomous chip production to reduce reliance on foreign technology.
Moreover, the plan promotes ethical AI development, public privacy protections, and improving AI governance frameworks. China sees AI not only as a technological breakthrough but as a comprehensive societal transformation tool.
In practice, this entails AI-powered smarter factories, healthcare diagnostics, precision agriculture, AI-enabled finance, personalized education, and smart public services. The plan also embraces international cooperation to promote shared AI advancement globally.
An associated new AI content labeling law, effective September 2025, mandates explicit and implicit labeling of AI-generated content across major digital platforms to increase transparency and curb misinformation.
This "AI Plus" initiative represents China’s strategic shift from simply connecting information (Internet Plus) toward empowering knowledge creation and application through AI, aiming to become a global leader in AI-driven economic and social development.triviumchina+4
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