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 leapfrog progress, placing it among the world’s leaders. China has consistently adopted an open and inclusive approach, 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 over 80,000 acres of precision agriculture projects in Mozambique utilizing “Beidou + drone” technology, and the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center bridging civilizations, these pragmatic cooperation scenarios illustrate the grand vision of “AI +” empowering the world.

In September 2025, China proposed the “AI +” International Cooperation Initiative, an international public product rooted in 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 application, cultural prosperity, and talent cultivation, establishing an action framework for global AI collaborative development, which has garnered widespread attention and positive responses from the international community.

Enhancing Livelihoods through AI

The initiative prioritizes improving people’s livelihoods, ensuring that AI technology benefits citizens worldwide, particularly aiding developing countries in overcoming challenges. In Mozambique’s Gaza Province, the China-Mozambique agricultural cooperation project introduced China’s “Beidou + drone” precision agriculture technology. Agricultural drones are extensively used for field mapping, rice planting, and pest control, covering over 80,000 acres, transforming low-yield fields into high-yield ones. Rice yields increased from about 150 kg per mu to over 400 kg, with some demonstration fields reaching 500 kg and high-yield plots exceeding 550 kg.

In the medical field, 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 for AI Development

Behind the warmth of technology lies robust scientific support. Technological advancement is the core driving force of “AI +”. The related initiatives lead innovation paradigm shifts and promote cross-disciplinary R&D collaboration. Currently, China ranks among the world’s top tier in large model research and open-source development, with a comprehensive system of general and industry-specific models increasingly refined, providing low-cost, inclusive model technology support to the world.

By November 2025, the Guizhou green data center cluster operates with low carbon emissions, achieving a PUE value below 1.2, with a total computing power exceeding 100,000 PFLOPS and over 98% of that being 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. Nationwide, by the end of 2025, China’s intelligent computing power is expected to reach 1.59 million PFLOPS, with eight planned national computing hubs accelerating construction, totaling 306 national green computing facilities, providing a replicable Chinese model for global green computing development.

In basic research, AI large models deeply empower cutting-edge fields like biomanufacturing and quantum technology, assisting global researchers in sharing innovative results.

Reshaping Global 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 + R&D application” linkage demonstrates significant results: Beijing Haidian focuses on AI R&D and results transformation, while Shanghai Lingang builds a cross-border computing hub. Eight national computing hub nodes collaborate to construct a nationwide integrated computing network supporting cross-national capacity collaboration.

On the Haizhi Online platform, a European engineer’s 3D gear drawing is analyzed by AI in milliseconds, precisely connecting with small and medium-sized enterprises in Jiangsu’s Kunshan. The platform 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 output of green electricity. In Tajikistan’s smart mining areas and Pakistan’s urban intelligent security systems, China’s digital and intelligent solutions deeply integrate with local needs, demonstrating that multilateral cooperation is an effective path for industrial empowerment.

Cultural Exchange through AI

Civilization becomes 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 serves as a model. Chinese tech companies collaborate with local enterprises to establish the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center, supporting translation among over 130 languages, enabling rapid translation of film content in just 30 minutes.

Moreover, 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 teaching design. The concurrently launched “Global South AI Workshop” provides a new platform for deepening cooperation on “AI + vocational education” among countries. The application of AI in digital cultural tourism and cultural heritage protection breathes new life into cultural heritage, showcasing the humanistic warmth of “AI +” and allowing different civilizations to blend and shine in the digital age.

Talent Development for Sustainable Empowerment

Talent is fundamental to development, and talent cultivation is essential for the sustainable empowerment of “AI +”. The initiative emphasizes building independent innovation capabilities in partner countries through technology open-sourcing 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 is expected to have 5.32 million effective domestic invention patents, with AI patents ranking among the world’s top, accounting for 60% of the global total.

Related technologies are shared with the world through open-source communities and joint R&D, significantly lowering the technological threshold for developing countries. Mechanism guarantees include the resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building proposed by China, which was unanimously adopted at the 78th UN General Assembly. China has led multiple AI capacity-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 educational programs, China supports partner countries in cultivating AI talent, bridging the “last mile” of technology application, and facilitating the transition from technology input to independent innovation. Since 2026, China has further opened specialized AI capacity-building training courses for ASEAN, Central Asian, and Arab countries, promoting cooperation from global inclusivity 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 hubs to industrial collaboration, from livelihood empowerment to cultural exchange, from technological innovation to talent cultivation, “AI +” is breaking down barriers with an open and inclusive approach. It will undoubtedly become a powerful engine for consolidating international cooperation and promoting global common development, ensuring that the benefits of intelligence reach every country and citizen, and composing a new chapter of shared destiny and prosperity in the digital age.