NANJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — China’s eastern Jiangsu province plans to make the smart economy a key driver of economic growth, according to a press conference held by the provincial government on Tuesday.
The Jiangsu provincial government announced the “Jiangsu Artificial Intelligence (AI) Plus Action Plan” at the conference, outlining its goals for the next few years. Jiangsu Province is expected to achieve a 90% adoption rate of new generation smart terminals and intelligent devices by 2030, and the scale of the AI industry will exceed 1 trillion yuan (approximately US$142.6 billion).
Based on the six key actions outlined in the national “AI+” initiative, which focuses on scientific and technological progress, industrial development, high-quality consumer goods, public welfare, governance capacity, and global cooperation, Jiangsu’s action plan introduces a new direction for emerging industries. This includes fostering new intelligent business models, supporting the “AI+OPC” (one person, one company) innovation and entrepreneurship model, and proactively addressing strategic emerging industries such as humanoid robots, low-altitude economy, intelligent driving, biomedicine, and new energy.
In addition to empowering industries with AI and accelerating the intelligent transformation of sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, and services, Jiangsu also plans to incorporate artificial intelligence across public services such as education, employment, healthcare, elderly care, transportation, and community services. Applications such as AI-assisted precision medicine and L4 autonomous driving are already partially implemented, providing citizens with tangible improvements in quality of life and convenience enabled by digitalization and intelligence.
According to the action plan, by 2035, Jiangsu province is expected to become a major hub for AI innovation, industrial development and integrated applications, ushering in a new stage of the province’s development into an intelligent economic society. ■
