China Sets AI Strategic Goal: Core Industry Scale to Reach 1 Trillion Yuan by 2030
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Artificial intelligence is an emerging strategic technology that leads the future and serves as a crucial force driving the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. President Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the need to deeply understand the characteristics of new-generation AI development and strengthen its integration with industrial development to provide new momentum for high-quality growth.
This year, with the "explosion" of large models and AIGC (AI-generated content) technologies, artificial intelligence has become even more "hot"!
Comprehensive Survey of the AI Industry
China's AI industry continues to expand in scale, with development accelerating significantly. It is poised to become the world's largest AI market in the future. In the post-pandemic era, the AI industry is expected to enter a period of rapid growth during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
Currently, the integration of AI with supporting technologies such as cloud computing and big data is deepening. The toolchain surrounding data processing, model training, deployment, operations, and security monitoring is becoming increasingly rich. The AI R&D management system is improving, with automated operations technologies like MLOps gaining more attention.
AI has become a vital technological force in enterprise digital transformation. As a branch of computer science, AI research includes robotics, speech recognition, image recognition, natural language processing, and expert systems.
Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that China's AI industry is thriving, with the core industry scale reaching 500 billion yuan and over 4,300 enterprises. Innovations such as AI chips, development frameworks, and general large models continue to emerge. High-performance computing, intelligent computing, and cloud computing are working together, with China ranking second globally in computing power. The deep integration of AI and manufacturing has led to the establishment of more than 2,500 digital workshops and smart factories, driving the digital, intelligent, and green transformation of the real economy.
Tech companies are the main force in AI industry development. Tian Feng, Dean of the SenseTime Intelligent Industry Research Institute, told the Economic Reference News that Chinese tech companies' AI strategies revolve around "Five New Areas": 1) "New Infrastructure" (AI chips, intelligent computing centers, foundational large models), 2) "New Terminals" (AR glasses, autonomous vehicles, robots), 3) "New Interactions" (AR metaverse), 4) "New Services" (AIGC, ChatGPT-like products), and 5) "New Ethics" (large model ethics, generative AI governance).
Artificial intelligence is a crucial driving force in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. As a core AI technology, deep learning demonstrates strong versatility along with standardized, automated, and modular characteristics of industrial mass production. The emergence of large models has further expanded the depth and breadth of AI applications, marking AI's entry into the industrial mass production phase.
Relevant authorities will leverage major scientific innovation projects to drive breakthroughs in foundational and original technologies such as large model algorithms and frameworks. This includes strengthening research on fundamental AI "root" technologies, promoting pilot demonstrations of AI applications, expanding specialized use cases, and accelerating "intelligent transformation and digital upgrading" to enhance AI's practical productivity.
China has successively issued multiple policy documents including the "Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of the New Generation AI Industry" and the "Guidance on Accelerating Scenario Innovation to Drive High-Quality Economic Development Through Advanced AI Applications." These provide crucial support for core AI technology breakthroughs, product commercialization, and exploration of new development models and pathways.
The Party Central Committee and State Council attach great importance to applying next-generation information technologies like AI in epidemic prevention and control. During pandemic response efforts, AI has played an extremely significant role. Due to the pandemic's impact, AI adoption in healthcare will accelerate, maintaining rapid growth over the next three years.
China's National AI Strategic Goals
The "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" represents the first national-level strategy explicitly elevating AI development, emphasizing AI's major impacts on international competition, economic growth, and social governance.
China's national AI strategy has three key objectives:
- By 2020: Master leading AI technologies and applications, creating an AI industry worth over 150 billion yuan.
- By 2025: Achieve major breakthroughs in fundamental AI theories and develop world-class technologies and applications, expanding core AI industries to 400 billion yuan.
- By 2030: Establish world-leading AI theories, technologies and applications, becoming a global AI innovation hub with core AI industries reaching 1 trillion yuan.
In the fiercely competitive market, making timely and effective decisions is crucial for enterprises and investors. The AI industry report compiled by China Research Network conducts a detailed analysis of China's artificial intelligence industry's development status, competitive landscape, and market supply-demand situation. It examines the industry's opportunities and challenges through the lens of policy environment, economic conditions, social factors, and technological advancements. The report also uncovers latent market demands and potential opportunities, offering accurate market intelligence and scientific decision-making references for strategic investors to choose optimal investment timing and for corporate leadership to formulate strategic plans. Additionally, it holds significant reference value for government departments.