Introduction

As satellites pass over Earth’s orbit, artificial intelligence (AI) is transcending borders, profoundly reshaping global development and cooperation. By 2025, China’s AI open-source 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 bridging civilizations, numerous pragmatic cooperation scenes and vibrant practices collectively paint a grand picture of the world empowered by “AI +.”

In September 2025, China proposed the “AI + International Cooperation Initiative,” an international public product embodying the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. This initiative focuses on five key areas: improving people’s livelihoods, technological progress, industrial applications, 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.

Focus on People’s 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 introduces China’s “Beidou + drone” precision agriculture technology. Agricultural drones are widely used for tasks such as field mapping, rice planting, and pest control, covering over 80,000 acres, transforming low-yield fields into high-yield ones. Rice yields have increased from about 150 kg per mu to over 400 kg, with some demonstration fields reaching 500 kg and high-yield areas 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 global quality resources, ensuring that technology reaches every corner.

Technological Support

Behind the warmth of technology is a solid scientific foundation. Technological progress is the core driving force of “AI +,” with related initiatives leading innovation paradigm shifts and promoting cross-domain 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, providing low-cost, inclusive model technology support to the world through open-source sharing.

By November 2025, the Guizhou green data center cluster achieves 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 uses wind and solar green electricity, reducing carbon emissions by 640,000 tons annually, pioneering carbon sink mutual recognition in computing power. By the end of 2025, China’s intelligent computing power scale reaches 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 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 to enable industrial upgrades and cultivate new business models, 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 achievement transformation, while Shanghai Lingang builds a cross-border computing hub. Eight national computing hub nodes collaborate to create a nationwide integrated computing network supporting cross-border capacity coordination.

On the Haizhi Online platform, a European engineer’s 3D gear drawings are analyzed by AI in milliseconds, precisely 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 and helping various enterprises smoothly integrate into global industrial division.

In Russia’s Far East, AI smart agricultural machinery significantly enhances agricultural production efficiency. 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, demonstrating that multilateral cooperation is an effective path to promote industrial empowerment.

Cultural Exchange

Civilizations flourish through communication, and “AI +” is becoming a digital bridge for cultural exchange. Cultural prosperity is an essential dimension of the global civilization initiative, 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 build the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center, supporting translation among over 130 languages, enabling rapid translation of film and television content in just 30 minutes.

Additionally, in the 2025 Belt and Road and BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Competition, over a hundred teams from various countries compete in AI-enabled instructional design. The concurrently launched “Global South AI Workshop” establishes a new platform for countries to deepen cooperation in “AI + vocational education.” The application of AI in digital cultural tourism and cultural heritage protection revitalizes cultural heritage from various countries, 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 the guarantee for the continuous empowerment of “AI +.” The initiative emphasizes building independent innovation capabilities in partner countries through open-source technology 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 valid domestic invention patents in China reaches 5.32 million, with AI patents ranking among the highest globally, accounting for 60% of the total worldwide, firmly holding the top position.

Relevant technologies are shared with the world through open-source communities and joint R&D, significantly lowering the technological threshold for developing countries. Mechanism guarantees are in place, with the international cooperation resolution on strengthening AI capacity building proposed by China in 2024 being 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 discussions on AI development, governance, and application, 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 capacity 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” is a comprehensive framework encompassing concepts, mechanisms, and practices. From computing hubs to industrial collaboration, from empowering people’s livelihoods to cultural exchange, from technological innovation to talent cultivation, “AI +” is breaking barriers with an open and inclusive approach. It is destined to become a powerful engine for fostering 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 prosperity in the digital age.