en.Wedoany.com Reported - Following the State Council's issuance of the "Opinions on Deeply Implementing the 'AI+' Action" (Guo Fa [2025] No. 11), eight departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on the 'AI + Manufacturing' Special Action". Subsequently, the National Data Administration and other departments have also rolled out AI empowerment policies across various sectors, promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence with manufacturing. This aims to help enterprises reduce costs, increase efficiency, enhance innovation capabilities and core competitiveness, and steer the manufacturing industry towards higher quality, greater efficiency, and safer development. Guided by the national top-level design, multiple provinces and cities have intensively released local "AI + Manufacturing" action plans.

The Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, along with 11 other departments, issued the "Shandong Province 'AI + Manufacturing' Action Plan (2026-2028)". The plan proposes that by 2028, the province's AI industry revenue will exceed 250 billion yuan, accounting for over 10% of the national total; breakthroughs will be made in developing industrial general-purpose large models with international recognition, essentially forming a distinctive, fully-covered industry large model system; approximately 200 high-level, collaborative industrial AI agents will be created; around 10 pioneering "AI + Manufacturing" applications will be established; over 50 innovation carriers will be cultivated, forming a development pattern with dual-core leadership, multi-point support, and full-region synergy. The plan also proposes building a batch of industry-level AI capability centers around 41 industrial sectors, promoting approximately 100 high-value application scenarios; striving to create over 100 national pilot-level and excellence-level smart factories; and cultivating a group of ecosystem-dominant benchmark enterprises with national influence, building a team of enabling application service providers who "understand AI and are familiar with the industry".

The Department of Industry and Information Technology of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region issued the "Guangxi 'AI + Manufacturing' Action Plan (2025-2027)". The plan aims to drive the output value of AI-related industries to exceed 100 billion yuan by 2027, initially establishing a highland for the AI industry oriented towards ASEAN. The plan outlines six major tasks: First, implementing breakthroughs in AI products, developing vertical domain models, industrial software, and hardware such as intelligent sensors and embodied robots, resulting in 100 signature products; Second, launching the "AI Empowering Ten Thousand Enterprises" initiative, creating 100 typical application scenarios, building smart factories and digital workshops, and empowering the upgrade of traditional industries; Third, tackling key technologies, building innovation platforms, and achieving breakthroughs in common technologies like deep learning and natural language processing; Fourth, cultivating and strengthening enterprises, fostering 10 chain-leader or leading enterprises, and attracting leading companies from the Greater Bay Area, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, etc.; Fifth, optimizing industrial layout, forming a pattern with Nanning as the main engine and coordinated development across other cities, and deepening cross-border industrial cooperation oriented towards ASEAN; Sixth, strengthening the guarantee of resource elements, consolidating the data foundation, increasing fiscal and financial support, and cultivating composite talent.

The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Jiangsu Province 'AI + Manufacturing' Implementation Plan". The plan proposes that by 2027, all industrial enterprises above a designated size in the province will basically achieve full coverage of "AI + Manufacturing" diagnostics, promoting the deep application of over 10 industrial large models and selecting over 100 application benchmarks. Simultaneously, it will guide over 10,000 basic-level and above smart factories to conduct scenario self-assessments, with scenario coverage rates exceeding 20% for 5,000 advanced-level smart factories and exceeding 50% for 100 excellence-level factories. The plan outlines four key tasks: First, promoting the in-depth application of AI in all aspects of manufacturing, systematically conducting diagnostic work, focusing on empowering R&D design, production management, operations management, product services, and supply chain management, and deepening applications in industrial chains such as steel, chemicals, biomedicine, semiconductors, and new energy; Second, accelerating the supply of industrial models and software, tackling industry-specific large and small models, building a high-quality dataset system ("Four Databases, One Platform"), and strengthening independent innovation in key industrial software; Third, enhancing hardware equipment capabilities, achieving breakthroughs in basic hardware like computing chips, developing intelligent terminals and embodied intelligent robots, and optimizing computing infrastructure construction; Fourth, optimizing the development ecosystem, strengthening innovation carriers, promoting the integration of industrial internet platforms with AI, and enhancing talent attraction and cultivation.

The Chongqing Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission issued the "Chongqing Implementation Plan for Promoting the Deep Integration of Real and Digital Economies to Drive 'AI + Manufacturing'". The plan proposes promoting the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy, driving AI to empower the "33618" modern manufacturing cluster system. The main goals by 2027 are: achieving a penetration rate of 90% for digital R&D design tools and 75% for CNC rate in key processes among enterprises above a designated size; creating a batch of typical AI application scenarios; building 30 sub-sector industrial brains, 40 future factories, and 40 national pilot-level and excellence-level smart factories. The plan outlines five key tasks: First, strengthening foundational support capabilities, enhancing intelligent computing supply, aggregating high-quality data resources, and developing industry large models; Second, focusing on the "33618" modern manufacturing cluster to expand new empowerment scenarios, accelerating the empowerment of key industries, promoting the full-process digital and intelligent upgrade of R&D design, pilot testing, production manufacturing, marketing services, and operations management, promoting the new "Industrial Brain + Future Factory" model, and using AI to promote industrial technological transformation and upgrading; Third, accelerating the iterative innovation of intelligent product equipment, developing high-performance AI agents, promoting the iteration of industrial products and equipment, accelerating the upgrade of intelligent terminal products, and developing embodied intelligence; Fourth, creating a favorable empowerment ecosystem, cultivating advantageous AI enterprises, building an innovation platform system, strengthening the attraction and cultivation of professional talent, and deepening industry-finance matchmaking services; Fifth, strengthening organization, implementation, and guarantees, establishing a collaborative promotion mechanism, improving the policy system, establishing a scenario list release mechanism, and promoting exchange and cooperation through exhibition platforms.

The Weihai Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, along with 11 other departments, jointly issued the "Weihai City Action Plan for AI Empowering Manufacturing Innovation and Development (2026-2028)". The plan focuses on the deep integration of AI and manufacturing, with smart manufacturing as the main direction. The overall goals by 2028 are: cultivating 4 signature AI products, creating 5 national-level industrial internet platforms and smart factories, establishing over 6 provincial-level or above "AI Capability Centers" and other platform carriers, and achieving over 30 typical application scenarios in the manufacturing sector. The plan outlines five major actions: First, the AI Supply Enhancement Action, orderly promoting the layout of computing facilities, accumulating over 11,000 5G base stations, and newly cultivating 20 growth-level and above industrial internet platforms; Second, the AI Product Breakthrough Action, leveraging the local industrial base to develop intelligent terminal products and researching new intelligent equipment like unmanned ships and underwater robots for marine and low-altitude fields; Third, the AI Scenario Empowerment Action, continuously promoting the construction of "Industrial Brains" and "Morning Star Factories", cultivating over 30 provincial-level or above demonstration benchmarks, and building characteristic parks and high-standard digital parks; Fourth, the AI Enterprise Cultivation Action, supporting SMEs in "cloud adoption, data utilization, and intelligence empowerment", forming replicable and scalable experiences and practices; Fifth, the AI Innovation Development Action, building platforms such as innovation consortia and enterprise technology centers, integrating them into the city's "1+4+N" innovation platform system.

The Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Shenzhen 'AI+' Advanced Manufacturing Action Plan (2026-2027)". The action plan proposes forming a pattern of "One Base, One Center, One Alliance, One Hundred Scenarios, Multiple Applications" by 2027, prominently positioning the "Construction of a National AI Application Pilot Testing Base", focusing on the mobile terminal direction in the consumer field, building a full-chain pilot testing and verification system, and promoting the implementation of "AI + Production Process" and "AI + Terminal Products". Using typical cases of embodied intelligence entering factories, the action plan aims to cultivate 20 industrial vertical large models, 30 specialized and new AI service providers, 30 high-quality datasets, build 100 landmark scenario application projects, establish the national AI application pilot testing base, and maintain the number of excellence-level and pilot-level smart factories among the top in the country. The main tasks cover six major actions: Core Element Breakthroughs (data, models, computing power, embodied intelligence); Product Supply Quality Improvement (intelligent equipment, industrial software, factory operating systems, intelligent terminals); Service Entity Cultivation (service providers, pilot testing bases, open-source ecosystem); Typical Application Expansion (R&D pilot testing, production processes, production manufacturing, operations management, supply chain); Transformation Model Deepening (industry solutions, platform empowerment, chain-driven, cluster synergy, digital-green synergy); Support System Upgrade (talent, standards, security). By 2030, the goal is to build an "One County, One Feature" industrial AI cluster and become a national benchmark city.

The Ningbo Municipal Government released the "Action Plan for Building a Full-Scenario Open Innovation Highland for 'AI + Manufacturing' (2026-2028)". Based on Ningbo's comprehensive industrial system, solid digital transformation foundation, and early AI exploration, the plan aims to cultivate 20 industrial vertical large models, build 100 landmark projects, and establish a national AI application pilot testing base within three years. The plan focuses on implementing six major actions: consolidating the foundation through breakthroughs in data, models, computing power, and embodied intelligence; improving the supply of intelligent equipment, software, and terminals; cultivating professional service providers and the open-source ecosystem; promoting AI empowerment across the entire process of R&D, production, management, and supply chain; deepening transformation models such as industry solutions, platforms, chains, parks, and digital-green synergy; and strengthening talent, standards, and security guarantees. Ningbo will periodically release "two lists" for application scenarios and service capabilities, optimize computing voucher policies, establish a special AI talent program, and rely on pilot projects in Yinzhou District and others to conduct trials, striving to become a national benchmark demonstration for "AI + Manufacturing".

With Shandong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Weihai, and Ningbo successively releasing action plans, "AI + Manufacturing" has formed a pattern of multi-point blossoming and differentiated advancement nationwide. Driven by continuous breakthroughs in core elements such as computing power, data, and models, along with the deep implementation of local plans, AI will further empower the entire manufacturing chain, helping Chinese manufacturing achieve a new leap from "following" to "leading" in the global value chain.

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