Jiangsu Province's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline clearly states the goal of building a globally influential hub for artificial intelligence innovation, factor supply, industrial agglomeration, and demonstration application. On the morning of July 30, the 23rd session of the 14th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee held its second plenary meeting to hear a report on comprehensively promoting the innovative development of AI. The report shows that from January to June this year, the revenue of Jiangsu's AI industry reached 243.113 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.32%. With the entire industry chain gathering momentum, AI is rapidly becoming a powerful engine driving Jiangsu's high-quality development.

Jiangsu ranks second in the national comprehensive computing power index, and the entire industry chain is gathering momentum. After years of development, Jiangsu has initially established an AI industry chain system covering the basic layer, technology layer, and application layer. In 2025, the province's AI industry scale is approximately 450 billion yuan, gathering over 1,500 AI enterprises. From January to June this year, the AI industry's revenue reached 243.113 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.32%, with the industry's growth trend continuing to solidify. Jiangsu continues to strengthen the key infrastructure of AI, with core indicators accelerating upward. Jiangsu's comprehensive computing power index ranks second in the country. As of the end of June, there were 308 computing centers in use, with a total computing power scale of 263 EFLOPS, an increase of 49% compared to the end of last year. The province has a total of 92 large models and 402 algorithms registered with the National Internet Information Office, an increase of 26 models and 119 algorithms respectively compared to the end of last year. The total number of registered users for these large models reaches 160 million, with an average daily API call count exceeding 65 million times. The reform of data factor market allocation has achieved significant results. As of the end of June, a total of 1,257 high-value data items and 190 billion pieces of data have been collected. In key areas such as healthcare, transportation, and industry, 675 high-quality datasets have been built, with a total of 284 transactions listed. The province's spatial layout continues to be optimized, forming a "one belt, two cores, multiple points" development pattern, with the Yanhu-Ning Industrial Innovation Belt as the pilot area, Nanjing and Suzhou as the core, and central and northern Jiangsu as the collaborative area.

Empowering industrial, healthcare, and education scenarios, the "AI+" action is accelerating to achieve tangible results. Behind the industry scale leap is a series of precise and powerful policy measures. Focusing on the goal of building "four highlands" 鈥?a globally influential hub for AI innovation, factor supply, industrial agglomeration, and demonstration application 鈥?Jiangsu is precisely targeting five major directions: technological innovation breakthroughs, industrial capacity enhancement, application-wide empowerment, factor foundation consolidation, and development environment optimization. In terms of key technology research, a special "AI for Science" program has been established within the provincial basic research plan, focusing on 14 key frontier areas, coordinating the development of scientific large models and research intelligent agents. Relying on frontier technology R&D plans and major science and technology projects, and focusing on key directions such as world models, general intelligent agents, and embodied intelligent robots, the province has deployed and implemented over 40 major scientific and technological research tasks over the past two years, with financial arrangements exceeding 250 million yuan. The world model developed by the Institute of Industrial AI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has topped the international authoritative rankings, achieving a landmark breakthrough in the original capability of underlying algorithms. In terms of industry quality improvement, the province is seizing the new track of embodied intelligence, laying out the construction of 3 innovation centers and 4 data collection and training centers, achieving an annual production capacity of 5 million high-quality data entries. A batch of phased innovation results have been formed in the "brain," "cerebellum," complete machines, and components of embodied intelligence. The "Jiangsu AI Terminal Product Cultivation Ten Measures" has been issued, promoting over 110 intelligent terminals to be included in the "Su Pin Su Huo" (Jiangsu Products, Jiangsu Goods) catalog, launching a "trade-in" subsidy policy, with related product sales exceeding 2 billion yuan. In terms of empowerment applications, the "Jiangsu Province 'AI+' Action Plan" has been issued and implemented. In the manufacturing sector, the number of enterprises reaching the leading and excellent levels of intelligent factories is 230 and 1,700 respectively. In the healthcare sector, the AI application coverage rate in tertiary public hospitals exceeds 90%, and all 13 prefecture-level cities have been connected to the medical insurance vertical large model. In the education sector, over 300 primary and secondary schools are piloting AI general education textbooks, and all undergraduate universities have opened AI general education courses. A total of 27 projects in the province were selected as 2025 national AI typical cases, ranking first in the country in terms of quantity. In terms of factor guarantee, a provincial-level integrated computing power monitoring and dispatching platform has been built and put into operation, achieving "one account" management of the province's computing power. The Jiangsu Provincial Data Exchange has been established and listed, with a cumulative total of 3,660 data merchants入驻. The province has taken the lead in creating 15 provincial-level AI colleges nationwide, with 53 undergraduate and 53 vocational colleges offering related majors.

In the next step, Jiangsu will unswervingly strengthen innovation, expand the industry, optimize scenarios, solidify factors, and improve governance. With the mission of taking the lead and setting an example, the province will promote AI to empower the development of new quality productive forces, making new and greater contributions to the comprehensive advancement of Chinese-style modernization in Jiangsu and writing a new chapter in the construction of a "strong, prosperous, and beautiful" new Jiangsu.