China Maps Out Roadmap for High-Quality Development of Intelligent Economy
The Government Work Report, submitted for deliberation at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress on the 5th, outlined plans for "forging a new form of intelligent economy". Covering areas from deepening and expanding "AI +", promoting the commercial and large-scale application of artificial intelligence (AI) in key industries, fostering new intelligent-native formats and models, to improving the basic system for data elements and AI governance, it has drawn a clear roadmap for the high-quality development of China’s intelligent economy.
The new layout of forging a new form of intelligent economy carries profound implications for development. It is no longer the application of a single technology, but the in-depth integration of AI with the real economy, digital infrastructure and industrial ecology, marking a new step in intelligent technology reshaping the underlying logic of China’s economy.
In recent years, a series of achievements have laid a solid foundation for the development of the intelligent economy. China holds 60% of the world’s AI patents, with an intelligent computing power scale exceeding 1590 EFLOPS (EFLOPS refers to 100 quadrillion floating-point operations per second). The integrated application of the industrial internet covers all 41 major industrial categories, nurturing 504 outstanding intelligent factories and 1260 high-level 5G factories.
The in-depth implementation of AI applications is crucial to developing the new form of intelligent economy. The Government Work Report clearly specifies deepening and expanding "AI +", promoting the accelerated popularization of a new generation of intelligent terminals and agents, and advancing the commercial and large-scale application of AI in key industries, pointing out the direction for industrial development.
The new concept of forging a new form of intelligent economy brings more new possibilities for economic and social development. With the introduction and implementation of relevant policies, the development of industries such as AI, embodied artificial intelligence (EAI), brain-computer interfaces, quantum technology, low-altitude economy and 6G will accelerate further, showing greater economic potential.
This new form of intelligent economy will transform production and life in multiple dimensions. At the industrial level, projects such as intelligent computing clusters and satellite internet will consolidate the underlying support; at the production level, human-machine collaboration and digital-intelligent integration will empower traditional industries; at the consumption level, it will spawn new scenarios such as humanoid robots and intelligent vehicles; at the people’s livelihood level, digital technologies including big data and AI will help solve resource allocation problems, promote the inclusive sinking of high-quality medical and educational resources, and make people’s livelihood services more warm.
Regarding the next steps to forge the new form of intelligent economy, the draft Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan includes a special chapter on further advancing the construction of a Digital China and raising the level of digital-intelligent development. It also clarifies specific development plans, such as deepening and expanding "AI +", comprehensively promoting digital-intelligent technology empowerment, and strengthening the efficient supply of computing power, algorithms and data. It sets a target that the added value of the core digital economy industries will account for 12.5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, which will have a far-reaching impact on promoting the development of the intelligent economy.
Forging a new form of intelligent economy is a strategic choice to seize the opportunity in technological competition and promote high-quality economic development. As the new form of intelligent economy accelerates, it will empower all industries in an all-round way in the future, injecting strong momentum into China’s high-quality economic development.
