Introduction

As satellites traverse Earth’s orbit, artificial intelligence (AI) is crossing borders, profoundly reshaping global development and cooperation patterns. By 2025, China’s open-source AI development has achieved significant progress, positioning itself among the world’s leaders. China maintains an open and inclusive stance, providing robust support for global AI collaborative development.

AI Initiatives and Projects

From the green data centers operating day and night in the Guizhou mountains to the precision agriculture project in Mozambique’s Gaza Province utilizing “Beidou + drones” technology, and the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center bridging civilizations, these practical cooperation scenes collectively illustrate the grand vision of “AI +” empowering the world.

In September 2025, China proposed the “AI +” International Cooperation Initiative, an international public good that embodies the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. It focuses on five key areas: improving people’s livelihoods, technological advancement, industrial application, cultural prosperity, and talent cultivation, establishing an action framework for global AI collaborative development, which has garnered widespread attention and positive response from the international community.

Focus on Livelihoods

The initiative prioritizes people’s livelihoods, ensuring that AI technology benefits citizens worldwide, particularly aiding developing countries in solving challenges. In Mozambique’s Gaza Province, the China-Mozambique agricultural cooperation project introduced China’s “Beidou + drones” precision agriculture technology. The widespread use of agricultural drones in tasks such as field mapping, rice planting, and pest control has transformed low-yield fields into high-yield ones, with rice yields increasing from about 150 kg per mu to over 400 kg, and some demonstration fields reaching 500 kg, with high-yield plots even exceeding 550 kg.

In healthcare, AI-assisted diagnostic systems extend quality resources to remote areas, improving diagnostic accuracy through image recognition. In education, intelligent learning platforms break geographical barriers, allowing students in developing countries to share high-quality global resources, ensuring technology reaches every corner.

Technological Support

Behind the warmth of technology lies solid scientific support. Technological advancement is the core driving force of “AI +,” with related initiatives leading innovation paradigm shifts and promoting cross-domain collaborative research. Currently, China ranks among the top tier globally in large model research and open-source development, with a comprehensive system of general large models and industry-specific vertical models, providing low-cost, inclusive model technology support to the world through open-source sharing.

By November 2025, the Guizhou green data center cluster achieved low-carbon operation relying on hydropower, with a PUE value below 1.2 and a total computing power exceeding 100,000 PFLOPS, of which over 98% is intelligent computing power. The Hohhot computing hub utilizes wind and solar green electricity, reducing carbon emissions by 640,000 tons annually, pioneering carbon sink mutual recognition in computing power in China. By the end of 2025, China’s intelligent computing power scale reached 1.59 million PFLOPS, with eight planned national computing hubs accelerating construction, and a total of 306 national green computing facilities established, providing a replicable Chinese model for global green computing development. In fundamental research, AI large models deeply empower cutting-edge fields like biomanufacturing and quantum technology, assisting global researchers in sharing innovative results.

Reshaping Supply Chains

AI’s empowerment of global development profoundly reshapes industrial and supply chains. The initiative advocates for using AI to empower industrial upgrades and cultivate new business formats, stabilizing global industrial supply chains. China’s “computing power supply + research and application” linkage has shown significant results: Beijing Haidian focuses on AI research and results transformation, while Shanghai Lingang builds a cross-border computing power hub, with eight national computing hub nodes collaborating to construct a national integrated computing network supporting cross-border capacity collaboration.

On the Haizhi Online platform, a European engineer’s 3D gear blueprint is parsed by AI in milliseconds, accurately connecting with small and medium-sized enterprises in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The platform bridges the information gap in non-standard parts trade with over 200 factory tags and more than 100 demand tags, facilitating the efficient circulation of over a million industrial blueprints, helping various enterprises smoothly integrate into the global industrial division of labor. In Russia’s Far East, AI smart agricultural machinery significantly enhances agricultural productivity; in Uzbekistan, AI photovoltaic cleaning robots ensure stable green electricity output; in Tajikistan’s smart mining areas and Pakistan’s urban intelligent security systems, China’s digital and intelligent solutions deeply integrate with local needs, confirming that multilateral cooperation is an effective path to promoting industrial empowerment.

Cultural Exchange

Civilizations become colorful through communication, and “AI +” is becoming a digital bridge for cultural exchange. Cultural prosperity is an important dimension of global civilization initiatives, centered on promoting mutual understanding through AI. The cooperation between China and Malaysia stands as a model. Chinese tech companies partnered with local enterprises to establish the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center, supporting translation in over 130 languages, enabling film content to be translated in just 30 minutes. Additionally, in the 2025 Belt and Road and BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition, over a hundred teams from various countries competed in AI-enabled instructional design; concurrently launched was the “Global South AI Workshop,” providing a new platform for deepening “AI + vocational education” cooperation among countries. The application of AI in digital cultural tourism and cultural heritage preservation revitalizes cultural heritage, showcasing the humanistic warmth of “AI +” and allowing different civilizations to blend and shine in the digital age.

Talent Development

Talent is fundamental to development, and talent cultivation is essential for the sustained empowerment of “AI +.” The initiative emphasizes building independent innovation capabilities in partner countries through technology open-source and joint training. China adheres to an open and inclusive philosophy, not only exporting technology but also sharing experiences. By the end of 2025, China had 5.32 million valid domestic invention patents, with AI patents ranking among the world’s top, accounting for 60% of the global total, maintaining the world’s leading position. Relevant technologies are shared with the world through open-source communities and joint research and development, significantly lowering the technological threshold for developing countries. In terms of mechanisms, the resolution proposed by China to strengthen international cooperation in AI capacity building was unanimously adopted at the 78th United Nations General Assembly. China has led multiple AI capacity-building seminars, inviting representatives from various countries to engage in in-depth exchanges on AI development, governance, and application, effectively implementing the UN General Assembly resolution. Through local training and joint education, China assists partner countries in cultivating AI talent, bridging the “last mile” of technology application, and supporting countries in transitioning from technology input to independent innovation. Since 2026, China has further opened specialized AI capacity-building training classes for ASEAN, Central Asian, and Arab countries, promoting relevant cooperation from global inclusiveness to regional deepening.

Conclusion

Intelligence knows no boundaries, and win-win cooperation is the path forward. China’s “AI +” International Cooperation Initiative encompasses a complete framework of concepts, mechanisms, and practices. From computing power hubs to industrial collaboration, from livelihood empowerment to cultural exchange, from technological innovation to talent cultivation, “AI +” is breaking barriers with an open and inclusive approach, destined to become a powerful engine for consolidating international cooperation and promoting global common development, allowing the benefits of intelligence to reach every country and its people, and composing a new chapter of shared destiny and prosperous coexistence in the digital age.