NDRC Unveils Five Core Work Approaches for China's AI Industry During the "15th Five-Year Plan" Period

             At a press conference held by the Shanghai Municipal Government on July 7, Wang Ruomeng, Deputy Director of the Innovation and High-Tech Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, disclosed the working plan for my country's artificial intelligence industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period: First, accelerate independent innovation. Strengthen research on key technologies such as models, computing power, and data, increase basic research, generate more original achievements, and contribute Chinese wisdom to the global development of artificial intelligence. Second, strengthen application-driven development. Focus on areas with significant economic contributions, high strategic value, and good social benefits, open up a number of high-value scenarios, and create a number of benchmark applications. Third, deepen ecological collaboration. Continuously promote deep adaptation of software and hardware, common prosperity of open and closed sources, integration of industry, academia, research, and application, and differentiated regional development to significantly improve the efficiency of ecological collaboration. Fourth, adhere to openness and win-win cooperation. Widely carry out international cooperation in artificial intelligence, promote open-source and inclusive technology, support countries in the Global South to strengthen their artificial intelligence capabilities, and actively participate in international governance in the field of artificial intelligence. Fifth, ensure safety and controllability. Coordinate development and security, accelerate legislation in the field of artificial intelligence, improve the system of rules and regulations, prevent risks such as data abuse, deepfakes, and privacy leaks, and ensure that the development of artificial intelligence is for human use and control.