17th Plenary Session of China AI Industry Alliance Held in Wuhan to Boost Industry Development

The 17th Plenary Session of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance was held in Wuhan, Hubei Province on April 9, according to China Information News. As a strategic technology leading the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence has maintained a sound development momentum in China, injecting strong impetus into the country’s new industrialization drive.

It is estimated that the scale of China’s core artificial intelligence industry exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025, with more than 6,200 enterprises in the sector, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Du Guangda, Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the Ministry will take the manufacturing industry as the main battlefield and application-driven development as the main line to further promote the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing.

Du outlined five key focus areas: deepening industry applications, consolidating the development foundation, optimizing the industrial ecology, strengthening safety governance, and deepening international cooperation. “We will release a number of high-value ‘AI +’ scenarios, explore typical applications, build characteristic intelligent agents, provide new types of intelligent terminals, develop new standards, cultivate industrial application talents, and foster high-quality enterprises,” he added.

Yu Xiaohui, President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, pointed out that artificial intelligence is accelerating its entry into the intelligent native era, with four key trends worthy of attention. First, the capabilities of basic large models are constantly breaking through, with programming capabilities rapidly evolving from “code completion” to “full-stack development intelligent agents”.

Second, intelligent agent frameworks represented by OpenClaw are rising rapidly, leading to explosive growth in the intelligent agent application ecosystem. Third, the large-scale application of intelligent agents continues to activate the intelligent economy, with the surge in Token consumption driving the rapid growth of cloud services. Fourth, the rapid popularization of intelligent agents has brought security risks such as data privacy and permission abuse, which cannot be ignored, and safety governance must advance in step with application promotion.

Yu noted that the alliance will continue to make efforts in five aspects: technological innovation, application-driven development, ecological construction, international cooperation and safety governance, to jointly create a new pattern for the development of the artificial intelligence industry. According to China Daily, the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance has long played a bridge role, promoting the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry.

With the convening of the 17th Plenary Session, the alliance will further integrate resources from all sectors, accelerate technological innovation and industrial application, and help China’s artificial intelligence industry achieve higher-level development, laying a solid foundation for the country’s technological progress and industrial upgrading.