State Council Deploys Six Key “AI Plus” Initiatives

On August 21, 2025, the State Council issued the Opinions on Deeply Implementing the “AI Plus” Initiative (the “Opinions”), with immediate effect, introducing a series of policy measures focused on both industry application needs and foundational capability supply.

The Opinions propose six key initiatives and call for the strengthening of foundational support across eight areas, and outlining focal points for “AI Plus” work in six major fields: science and technology, industrial development, consumption quality improvement, people’s well-being, governance capacity, and global cooperation. The policy systematically builds an artificial intelligence foundational support system around eight dimensions: models, data, computing power, applications, open source, talent, policy and regulations, and security. To address issues such as a hardware-centric approach, fragmented AI applications, and low open-source community engagement in real-world AI deployment, the Opinions propose a range of targeted measures, including establishing and improving AI open-source contribution evaluation and incentive mechanisms.