Introduction

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

AI Initiatives in China

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

Focus on People’s Livelihoods

The initiative prioritizes people’s livelihoods, ensuring that AI technology benefits citizens worldwide, especially aiding developing countries in solving challenges. In Mozambique’s Gaza Province, the China-Mozambique agricultural cooperation project introduced China’s “Beidou + Drone” precision agriculture technology. Agricultural drones are widely used for tasks such as farmland mapping, rice planting, and pest control, covering over 80,000 acres. This has transformed low-yield fields into high-yield ones, increasing rice yields from about 150 kg to over 400 kg per acre, with some demonstration fields reaching 500 kg and even exceeding 550 kg in high-yield areas.

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 global quality resources, ensuring that technological benefits reach every corner.

Technological Support

The backbone of this technological warmth is solid scientific support. Technological advancement is the core driving force behind “AI+”. The initiative leads to innovative paradigm shifts and promotes cross-disciplinary R&D collaboration. Currently, China ranks among the top tier globally in large model research and open-source development. The general large model and industry-specific model systems are becoming increasingly refined, providing low-cost, inclusive model technology support to the world through open-source sharing.

By November 2025, the Gui’an 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, with over 98% being intelligent computing power. The Hohhot computing hub uses wind and solar green electricity, reducing carbon emissions by 640,000 tons annually, pioneering carbon sink mutual recognition in computing power in the country. By the end of 2025, China’s intelligent computing capacity is expected to reach 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 basic scientific research, AI large models deeply empower frontier areas such as biomanufacturing and quantum technology, assisting global researchers in sharing innovative achievements.

Reshaping Supply Chains

AI’s empowerment of global development profoundly reshapes industrial and supply chains. The initiative advocates for AI-driven industrial upgrades and the cultivation of new business formats to stabilize global industrial supply chains. China’s “computing power supply + R&D application” linkage demonstration has shown remarkable results: Beijing Haidian focuses on AI R&D and results transformation, while Shanghai Lingang builds a cross-border computing power hub. Eight national computing hub nodes collaborate to create a nationwide integrated computing network supporting cross-border capacity collaboration.

On the Haizhi online platform, a European engineer’s 3D gear drawing is parsed by AI in milliseconds, accurately connecting with SMEs in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The platform bridges the information gap in non-standard component trade, facilitating the efficient circulation of over a million industrial drawings, 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, effectively demonstrating that multilateral cooperation is an effective path to drive industrial empowerment.

Cultural Exchange

Civilization flourishes through communication, and “AI+” is becoming a digital bridge for cultural exchange. Cultural prosperity is a vital dimension of global civilization initiatives, centered on promoting mutual understanding through AI. The cooperation between China and Malaysia serves as a model. Chinese tech companies collaborate with local enterprises to establish the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center, supporting over 130 languages for translation, enabling rapid translation of film and television content within 30 minutes.

Additionally, in the 2025 Belt and Road and BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition, over a hundred teams from multiple countries compete in AI-enabled instructional design. The concurrently launched “Global South AI Workshop” provides a new platform for deepening cooperation in “AI + vocational education” among countries. The application of AI in digital cultural tourism and cultural heritage protection 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, the number of effective domestic invention patents in China reached 5.32 million, with AI patents ranking among the top globally, accounting for 60% of the world’s total, maintaining the world’s leading position. Related technologies are shared with the world through open-source communities and joint R&D, significantly lowering the technological threshold for developing countries.

In terms of mechanism guarantees, the resolution proposed by China to strengthen international cooperation in AI capability building was unanimously adopted at the 78th United Nations General Assembly. China has led multiple AI capability-building seminars, inviting representatives from various countries to engage in in-depth discussions on AI development, governance, and applications, effectively implementing the UN General Assembly resolution. Through local training and joint schooling, 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 capability-building training courses 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 way forward. China’s “AI+” International Cooperation Initiative encompasses a complete framework of concepts, mechanisms, and practices. From computing power hubs to industrial collaboration, from empowering livelihoods to cultural exchange, from technological innovation to talent cultivation, “AI+” is breaking barriers with an open and inclusive attitude, destined to become a powerful engine for international cooperation, promoting global common development, and ensuring that the benefits of intelligence reach every country and citizen, composing a new chapter of shared destiny and prosperity in the digital age.