That the power that dominates AI has many roles in dictating the rules of the game at a global level is an open secret. China knows this and has stepped on the accelerator by putting on the table an ambitious plan for 2027 that concerns absolutely all key sectors. Your goal? Being able to securely and reliably provide key AI technologies that are deeply and high-level integrated into a new era of industrialization.
Towards the global forefront. The plan is called “Opinions on the implementation of the special action Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing“, has 2027 as a deadline and a maximum aspiration: that both its artificial intelligence industry and its application at an industrial level are at the global forefront, promoting what they call “new quality productive forces.”
To get an idea of its relevance and transversality, it is signed by eight government departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the National Development and Reform Commission.
The seven essential pillars. If there is something that stands out about the program, it is how concrete and detailed it is when it comes to materializing it. Thus, the seven key tasks are: laying the foundation through innovation, AI-driven improvements, product advancements, development of key actors, strengthening the ecosystem, ensuring security and international cooperation. Breaking down how, these are some of the measures to apply:
- Software and hardware innovation: coordinate the development of AI chips with the necessary software.
- Integration into production: Introduce AI models into core manufacturing processes, not just administrative tasks.
- Robotics and machinery: Accelerate the use of AI in industrial robots and machine tools.
- Open Ecosystem: Build a world-leading open source community.
- Security: develop technologies to protect algorithms and training data of industrial models.
Some dizzying goals in less than two years. And if your measures are concrete, the objectives for the deep application of AI even more so:
- Large models: Deploy three to five general-purpose AI models for manufacturing, plus specific models for key industries.
- Data: Creation of 100 high-quality industrial data sets
- Real use cases: Promote 500 real case application scenarios in factories.
- Companies: promote two or three leading global companies in the AI ecosystem, seeking strategic concentration of resources and leadership, along OpenAI or DeepSeek. Likewise, it wants to select a thousand model companies among specialized SMEs to support them.
Sovereignty and leadership. In conclusion, what China has proposed is a comprehensive roadmap for the Asian giant not only to consume AI, but for its industrial sector to be the basis of technological development to ensure its technical independence in chips and algorithms before the end of the decade.
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