Original title: Many places have introduced industrial support policies to compete for the “Artificial Intelligence +” track
Our reporter Zhang Xiangyi
Recently, the “Implementation Plan for Building a Highland for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry in Hangzhou (2025 Edition) (Draft for Comments)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Implementation Plan”) was publicly solicited for opinions from the public. The “Implementation Plan” proposes that by the end of 2025, Hangzhou will cultivate and form two basic large models with international first-class level and more than 25 industry application large models with significant industry influence.
With the implementation of phenomenal artificial intelligence applications such as DeepSeek, the development of the artificial intelligence industry has attracted attention from many parties. Since the beginning of this year, various places have competed for the “Artificial Intelligence +” track, intensively issued relevant support policies, and made efforts to cultivate the artificial intelligence industry.
Zhu Keli, executive director of the China Information Association and founding director of the China Research Institute of New Economic Research, said in an interview with a reporter from Securities Daily that local governments have intensively introduced policies to further guide capital and resources to accelerate the concentration of the artificial intelligence track, which will help the cultivation and rapid growth of the artificial intelligence industry.
Form a national artificial intelligence map
The 2025 “Government Work Report” proposes to continue to promote the “Artificial Intelligence +” action. At present, key cities including Hangzhou, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, etc. have issued or planned to introduce action plans or plans to promote the development of the artificial intelligence industry, striving to build a highland for the development of artificial intelligence.
For example, the “Tianjin Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Innovation and Development of Artificial Intelligence (2025-2027) (Draft for Comments)” will be solicited publicly from April 15, and it is proposed that by 2027, 50 key core technologies will be overcome in the fields of GPU (graphics processor), AI (artificial intelligence) operating systems, industrial software, intelligent equipment, etc., and 20 key new products will be formed.
In March, Shenzhen released four action plans, including “Shenzhen’s Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Artificial Intelligence Pioneer City (2025-2026)” and “Shenzhen’s Action Plan for Accelerating the Development of Artificial Intelligence Terminal Industry (2025-2026)”, covering multiple aspects such as building an artificial intelligence pioneer city, supporting the artificial intelligence terminal industry, developing embodied intelligent robots, cultivating gazelle enterprises and unicorn enterprises.
Beijing released the “Beijing Embodied Intelligent Technology Innovation and Industry Cultivation Action Plan (2025-2027)” in February, aiming at embodied intelligence, a cutting-edge field of artificial intelligence technology, and strives to create an internationally influential embodied intelligent technology innovation source and industrial development growth pole.
“The policies of various regions are characterized by strong targetedness, good coordination and large resource investment. These strategies adapted to local conditions will help form an industrial ecology with complementary advantages.” Zheng Yangyang, a researcher at the artificial intelligence industry of Samoy Cloud Technology Group, analyzed that all-round policy support in various regions provides a favorable environment for the promotion of the “Artificial Intelligence +” action, help cultivate future industries and seize new industrial tracks.
In Zhu Keli’s view, the central government sets the tone to promote the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and local governments have introduced a combination of policy support, and dismantle tasks according to local conditions, which is equivalent to implementing the top-level design into an actionable action list. At the same time, different policies in various places are also reconstructing the division of labor in the regional industrial chain. Hangzhou focuses on the underlying computing power and data ecosystem, Beijing focuses on breakthroughs in embodied intelligent cutting-edge technologies, and Shenzhen has strongly attacked terminal applications. This differentiated layout can not only avoid repeated “involvement”, but also complement the national artificial intelligence map.
Some “jack points” need to be opened urgently
my country’s artificial intelligence industry is booming, policy support is emerging one after another, start-ups are emerging, and new products and new applications are being implemented at an accelerated pace. Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that as of the end of September last year, the scale of my country’s core artificial intelligence industry has reached nearly 600 billion yuan, and there are more than 4,500 related companies.
A report released by the CIDI Consulting Center for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data predicts that China’s artificial intelligence industry will show a significant growth trend in the next 10 years and occupy an important position in the global market. From 2025 to 2035, the scale of China’s artificial intelligence industry is expected to grow from 398.5 billion yuan to 172.95 billion yuan, with a compound annual growth rate of 15.6%.
In order to continue to promote the “Artificial Intelligence +” action to go deeper and more practical, some “locks” in the process of industrial development need to be opened up, and policy-level support is indispensable.
Zhu Keli believes that the biggest “block” in the development of the artificial intelligence industry is the fault between technology implementation and commercial closed loop. Some companies hold algorithm patents, but cannot find large-scale application scenarios. In addition, the high cost of computing power has discouraged small and medium-sized enterprises, and the lack of cross-industry collaboration rules has also restricted innovation.
“What the policy needs to do is to twist the three parallel lines of technology, data, and scenarios into a rope.” Zhukeli said that establishing a public computing power pool, using “data sandboxes” to balance privacy, security and innovation, and cultivating an industrial ecosystem to retain skilled talents will help open up the path of technology from laboratories to market.
At present, some regions are trying to open up “jackpoints”. As proposed in the “Implementation Plan” proposed in Hangzhou, share the cost of innovation. Implement computing power coupons and smart coupon policies. 250 million yuan of municipal-level computing power coupons will be established every year, and subsidies will be given to user enterprises that purchase intelligent computing power services and model services at no more than 30% of the actual amount incurred in the contract.
“Optimizing the financial support system can support the development of artificial intelligence start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises.” Zheng Yangyang said that in addition, strengthening data security and privacy protection, further improving laws and regulations, and establishing a data security supervision mechanism can also provide legal guarantees for the development of artificial intelligence enterprises.
[Editor in charge: Cao Jing]
