China's State Council Calls for Expanding 'AI+' Initiative

On October 16, Chinese Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting to部署 expand the "AI+" initiative.

The meeting noted that artificial intelligence is a key variable affecting future development. It stressed leveraging China's complete industrial system, rich application scenarios, and strong engineering capabilities, focusing on application-driven technological innovation to further deepen and expand the "AI+" initiative. The meeting also called for strengthening the development foundation, enhancing technological research and algorithm innovation, promoting coordination between computing power and electricity, increasing the supply of high-quality data, and addressing weaknesses while reinforcing strengths. Emphasis was placed on empowerment through application, with the real economy as the focus, improving supply-demand coordination, encouraging joint research and development, advancing pilot validation, and increasing scenario cultivation so that AI technology can be better translated into real productivity. Meanwhile, the meeting underscored the need to balance development and security, implement category-based and tiered policies, strengthen risk assessment, and safeguard the bottom line of AI security.