The Chinese State Council released a ten-year AI development plan aiming to integrate AI deeply across society. The plan targets six pillars by 2027: science and technology, citizen wellbeing, industrial development, consumer goods, governance, and international relations. AI is expected to enhance research in the humanities and environmental monitoring. By 2030 the plan sets a 90 percent AI usage rate, positioning AI as new infrastructure and a major economic growth driver. By 2035 AI should become a key growth engine and rework economic and social production. The State Council frames AI as an international public good that benefits humanity.
Yesterday, the Chinese State Council - the government body responsible for carrying out Chinese Government policy, sort of like the executive branch of the US - released its ten-year plan for AI development. By 2035, it declares, AI will become a "key growth engine for the country's economic development," enabling the People's Republic to "fully enter a new stage of development in the intelligent economy and intelligent society, providing strong support for the basic realization of socialist modernization."
The extensive document highlights six main pillars of society expected to be deeply integrated with AI by 2027. These include science and technology, citizen wellbeing, industrial development, consumer goods, governance, and international relations. Specifically, China expects to use AI to improve all manner of national development, from the way humanities scholars conduct research to the way ecologists monitor changes in the environment.
By 2030, the plan says that AI should have a usage rate of 90 percent, essentially becoming a new type of infrastructure. By this point, the government asserts that AI will become a "major growth driver of China's economy." China pursued similar state-led tech development with its " internet plus" plan, which successfully transformed the internet into a major component of its economy.
Collection
[
|
...
]