Introduction

As satellites traverse Earth’s orbit, artificial intelligence (AI) crosses borders, profoundly reshaping global development and cooperation. By 2025, China’s open-source AI construction has achieved leapfrog development, placing it among the world’s leaders. China maintains an open and inclusive stance, providing solid 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 + drone” technology, and the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center building bridges of civilization, these practical cooperation scenarios collectively illustrate the grand vision of “AI +” empowering the world.

In September 2025, China proposed the “AI +” International Cooperation Initiative, an international public product grounded in 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, garnering widespread attention and positive responses from the international community.

Focus on Livelihoods

The initiative prioritizes people’s livelihoods, ensuring that AI technology benefits citizens of all countries, especially aiding developing nations in solving challenges. In Mozambique’s Gaza Province, the China-Mozambique agricultural cooperation project introduced Chinese “Beidou + drone” precision agriculture technology, with agricultural drones widely used for tasks such as field mapping, rice planting, and pest control. The total operational area exceeds 80,000 acres, transforming low-yield fields into high-yield ones, with rice yields increasing from about 150 kg to over 400 kg per acre, and some demonstration fields reaching 500 kg, with high-yield plots even exceeding 550 kg.

In healthcare, AI-assisted diagnosis 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 that technological benefits reach every corner.

Technological Support

Behind the technological warmth is solid scientific support. Technological progress is the core driving force of “AI +,” leading to innovative paradigm shifts and promoting cross-disciplinary R&D collaboration. 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 increasingly perfected, providing low-cost, inclusive model technology support to the world through open-source sharing.

By November 2025, the Guizhou green data center cluster, relying on hydropower, achieved low-carbon operation with a PUE value below 1.2, a total computing power scale exceeding 100,000 PFLOPS, and over 98% of intelligent computing power. The Hohhot computing hub utilizes wind and solar green electricity, reducing carbon emissions by 640,000 tons annually, exploring carbon sink mutual recognition in computing power. As of 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 nationwide, providing a replicable Chinese model for global green computing development.

In basic scientific research, AI large models deeply empower cutting-edge fields such as 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 AI-driven industrial upgrades and the cultivation of new business formats to stabilize global industrial and supply chains. China’s “computing power supply + R&D application” linkage has shown significant demonstration effects: Beijing Haidian focuses on AI R&D and results transformation, while Shanghai Lingang builds a cross-border computing power hub, with eight national computing hub nodes collaborating to construct a nationwide integrated computing power network supporting cross-border capacity collaboration.

On the Haizhi online platform, a European engineer’s 3D gear drawings are analyzed by AI in milliseconds, accurately connecting with small and medium-sized enterprises in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The platform, relying on over 200 factory tags and more than a hundred demand tags, bridges the information gap in non-standard parts trade, facilitating efficient circulation of over a million industrial drawings, helping various enterprises smoothly integrate into global industrial division.

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 drive industrial empowerment.

Cultural Exchange

Civilization flourishes through exchange, and “AI +” is becoming a digital bridge for cultural mutual learning. Cultural prosperity is an important dimension of the global civilization initiative, centered on promoting mutual understanding through AI. The collaboration between China and Malaysia serves as a model. Chinese tech companies partnered with local enterprises to establish the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center, supporting translation among over 130 languages and 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 competed in AI-enabled instructional design; concurrently, the “Global South AI Workshop” was launched to create 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, China’s effective domestic invention patents reached 5.32 million, with AI patents ranking among the top globally, accounting for 60% of the total worldwide, maintaining the first position.

Related technologies are shared with the world through open-source communities and joint R&D, significantly lowering the technological threshold for developing countries. Mechanism-wise, 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 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 capability-building training courses for ASEAN, Central Asian, and Arab countries, promoting relevant cooperation from global inclusivity 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 hubs to industrial collaboration, from empowering livelihoods to cultural mutual learning, from technological innovation to talent cultivation, “AI +” is breaking down barriers with an open and inclusive approach, becoming a powerful engine for consolidating international cooperation and promoting global common development, ensuring that the benefits of intelligence reach every country and its people, and composing a new chapter of shared destiny and mutual prosperity in the digital age.