❯ The CPC Central Committee and State Council issue the Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces, calling for full implementation of the “AI Plus” initiative

Article 10 is devoted to AIThe CPC Central Committee and the State Council have issued the Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces, and People’s Daily Online published the full text on October 9. Article 10, titled “fully implement the ‘AI Plus’ initiative,” calls for advancing AI’s transformation of traditional industries and accelerating applications for next-generation smart devices such as intelligent connected new energy vehicles, AI phones and PCs, and humanoid robots.

Technology, supply and applicationThe same article calls for faster innovation in AI and other digital-intelligent technologies, breakthroughs in basic theory and core technologies, and stronger, more efficient supply of computing power, algorithms and data. It also calls for national pilot-scale bases for AI industry applications and high-value application scenarios, laid out according to local conditions and by sector, and for technology monitoring, risk warning and emergency response systems so that AI is safe, reliable and controllable.

Computing networks and future industriesTwo neighboring articles also bear on AI. Article 9 calls for projects including “East Data, West Computing,” smart manufacturing and the industrial internet, and for building a nationally integrated computing network. Article 8 calls for forward-looking planning of future industries, including quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence and sixth-generation mobile communications, with mechanisms for growing investment and sharing risk.

The guiding principle is local fitThe general requirements call for adhering to innovation as the driver, reform as the key, adapting to local conditions and establishing the new before abolishing the old, while coordinating development and security and advancing innovation in science and technology, industry, development models, institutions and talent mechanisms. For companies building AI applications, the device categories named in the text, along with the pilot-scale bases and high-value scenarios, are concrete items to check their own business against.

▮ SIGNALA single article covers device scenarios and industry pilot bases, the supply of computing power, algorithms and data, and the requirement that AI be safe, reliable and controllable: application, supply and safety are laid out together.