On June 24th, the Office of the People's Government of Zhengzhou City issued the "Action Plan for Market driven Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development in Zhengzhou (2025-2027)". It is mentioned that by the end of 2025, key technologies such as big models, cross media perception, embodied intelligence, human-machine hybrid intelligence systems, autonomous driving, and intelligent equipment will make new progress, 10 innovation platforms will be established, 20 high-level leading talent teams will be introduced and cultivated, 20 deep integration application scenarios will be formed, 100 high growth artificial intelligence enterprises will be cultivated, 2 or more vertical industry models will be created, and 2 or more influential artificial intelligence industrial parks will be built. The scale of the core artificial intelligence industry and related industries will exceed 35 billion yuan and 200 billion yuan respectively. By the end of 2027, artificial intelligence technology will be deeply integrated and applied in various fields of economic and social development in Zhengzhou, and an AI industry ecosystem will be established with good development momentum, explosive enterprise vitality, active innovation clusters, ubiquitous application scenarios, and agile governance security. This will help Zhengzhou build a new highland of AI innovation and development with national influence.
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Action Plan for Scene Driven Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development in Zhengzhou City
(2025-2027)
In order to thoroughly implement the national and Henan Province's decision-making arrangements on the development of artificial intelligence, leverage the advantages of scenario driven innovation, seize the opportunities of artificial intelligence technology revolution and development, promote the implementation of the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, and cultivate the artificial intelligence industry as a new driving force for the modernization and upgrading of Zhengzhou National Central City, this action plan is formulated.
1、 Overall objective
By the end of 2025, new progress will be made in key technologies such as big models, cross media perception, embodied intelligence, human-machine hybrid intelligence systems, autonomous driving, and intelligent equipment. Ten innovation platforms will be established, 20 high-level leading talent teams will be introduced and cultivated, 20 deep integration application scenarios will be formed, 100 high growth artificial intelligence enterprises will be cultivated, two or more vertical industry models will be created, and two or more influential artificial intelligence industrial parks will be built. The scale of the core artificial intelligence industry and related industries will exceed 35 billion yuan and 200 billion yuan respectively.
By the end of 2027, artificial intelligence technology will be deeply integrated and applied in various fields of our city's economy and society, and an artificial intelligence industry ecosystem will be established with good development momentum, explosive enterprise vitality, active innovation clusters, ubiquitous application scenarios, and agile governance security. This will help Zhengzhou build a new highland of artificial intelligence innovation and development with national influence.
2、 Key tasks
（1） Intensify key technological breakthroughs and enhance the innovation capability of artificial intelligence
1. Strengthen the research and development of key technologies. Focusing on the fields of intelligent sensors, intelligent robots, intelligent connected vehicles, etc., we encourage universities and research institutes stationed in Zhengzhou to carry out strategic cooperation with leading domestic and foreign artificial intelligence enterprises and research institutions, strengthen research in basic theories such as big data intelligent analysis, cross media perception computing, human-machine hybrid intelligent systems, autonomous collaborative control and decision-making, and focus on tackling a number of key common technologies.
Lead unit: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Development and Reform Commission
2. Cultivate a large-scale model industry ecosystem. Deepen cooperation with leading artificial intelligence companies such as DeepSeek and introduce high-quality universal large models. Support large model enterprises to deeply cultivate segmented fields, focus on key scenarios such as smart healthcare, smart factories, smart transportation, and smart cultural tourism, and refine and strengthen a group of vertical large models with industry competitiveness.
Leading unit: Smart Office of the Municipal Party Committee
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, and relevant municipal units
3. Build an artificial intelligence innovation platform. Encourage artificial intelligence enterprises, universities, and research institutions to take the lead in building artificial intelligence industry technology research institutes. Give full play to the role of innovation platforms such as Harbin Institute of Technology Zhengzhou Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Zhengzhou Research Institute, and Beijing Institute of Technology Zhengzhou Research Institute, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, and promote the innovative development of the artificial intelligence industry.
Lead unit: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Development and Reform Commission
4. Accelerate the construction of innovation centers empowered by large models. Support the construction of a large model empowerment innovation center in Zhengzhou High tech Zone, focusing on the industrial system of Henan Province, to form a gathering place for large model enterprises, industry service centers, innovation and entrepreneurship incubation platforms, intelligent application demonstration windows, and industry university research cooperation demonstration bases. Build functional platforms such as data, computing power, evaluation, finance, and integration to provide support and services for start-up enterprises and teams in the field of large model applications.
Lead unit: Zhengzhou High tech Zone Management Committee
Responsible units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission
5. Accelerate the transformation and application of artificial intelligence achievements. Promote the experimental verification and iterative innovation of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, achieve the interactive evolution of technology supply and scenario demand, support the demonstration application of successfully verified technologies (services) throughout the city, and form a complete closed loop from core technology research and development, intelligent product production to industry intelligent application. Establish micro enterprise incubators, accelerators, and pilot fields for artificial intelligence research institutions within the United Nations, and form a collaborative innovation mechanism for the artificial intelligence industry chain in talent introduction, training and development, transfer of new product technology capabilities, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Lead unit: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Development and Reform Commission
（2） Implementing scenario driven innovation to promote deep application of artificial intelligence
6. Promote the openness of artificial intelligence application scenarios. Implement demonstration actions for artificial intelligence scenario applications, with major application needs as the driving force, and implement application demonstrations in key industries such as healthcare, industry, agriculture, culture and tourism, social governance, ecological protection, disaster prevention and mitigation, and public services. Based on the foundation of city level large-scale models, DeepSeek access services are open to public service departments, providing one-stop services such as computing power sharing and model optimization, reducing the threshold for using government applications.
Leading units: Smart Office of the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Responsible unit: Relevant municipal units
7. Artificial intelligence+healthcare. Encourage medical institutions to collaborate with artificial intelligence companies and medical research institutions such as the Provincial Academy of Medical Sciences to conduct cooperative research, form a batch of high-quality medical industry datasets, build a new paradigm for medical research, create a vertical large model for the medical industry, and innovate the full chain integrated services of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, etc. Explore the collaboration mechanism between doctors and medical agents, optimize medical auxiliary services such as guided service, online consultation, prescription generation, medication consultation, chronic disease management, and home intelligent doctors, and promote the upgrading of Internet hospitals to AI hospitals.
Lead unit: Municipal Health Commission
8. Artificial intelligence+industry. Focus on key advanced manufacturing industry chains such as intelligent terminals, automobile manufacturing, food manufacturing, and new materials, encourage chain owners to cooperate with artificial intelligence enterprises, and gather high-quality industry datasets. Develop vertical large-scale industrial models that are adaptable to complex manufacturing task environments and have cross modal data processing capabilities, focusing on application scenarios such as product assisted design, intelligent flexible production, refined quality inspection, and intelligent supply chain management. Build a test field for embodied intelligence applications around logistics warehousing, production manufacturing, and other fields to enhance the level of embodied intelligence development.
Lead unit: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology
9. Artificial intelligence+agriculture. Using artificial intelligence technology to collect, analyze, and empower data on weather changes, soil types, water and fertilizer conditions, crop growth status, etc., exploring the use of agricultural big models to improve agricultural production efficiency. Encourage the use of large-scale seed industry models to develop new methods for gene pairing selection and crop characteristic prediction, accelerate the breeding process, and improve key characteristics such as disease resistance, adaptability, and yield of crops.
Lead unit: Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau
10. Artificial intelligence+cultural tourism. Support the construction of a cultural and tourism model service platform, providing efficient and convenient cultural and tourism services. Promote the application of artificial intelligence technology in museum exhibitions, digital preservation, and revitalization utilization. Utilize big model technology to enhance video generation, content restoration, and content creation capabilities, deepen its application in industries such as micro dramas, film and animation, and develop the digital content industry.
Leading units: Municipal Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau
11. Artificial intelligence+social governance. Taking "efficiently accomplishing one thing" as the starting point, explore the construction of artificial intelligence+government services, and create an efficient government service system. Targeting grassroots community governance, utilizing artificial intelligence technology to achieve the integration of "smart governance". Utilizing artificial intelligence big model technology, innovating intelligent policing work, improving the quality and efficiency of public security prevention and control capabilities, case investigation efficiency, and other work.
Leading units: Municipal Administrative Approval Government Information Management Bureau, Municipal Smart Office, Municipal Social Work Department, Municipal Urban Management Bureau, Municipal Public Security Bureau
12. Artificial intelligence+ecological protection. Build a large-scale ecological protection model to enhance the monitoring and trend prediction capabilities of atmospheric, water quality, and soil conditions. Build a benchmark for AI+ecological protection in the Yellow River Basin. Promote the aggregation of data resources in the field of natural resources, provide training and inference environments for large-scale model applications, and deepen the integration of multiple regulations.
Leading units: Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau, Municipal Forestry Bureau, Municipal Resource Planning Bureau
13. Artificial intelligence+disaster prevention and reduction. We will focus on promoting the application of artificial intelligence in scenarios such as flood control and drainage expert knowledge base, intelligent prediction of reservoir water level, intelligent management of contingency plans, digital exercise assistance, and intelligent emergency rescue, to enhance the ability of early identification, consultation and judgment, monitoring and early warning, and scientific evaluation of urban disaster risks, and to prevent and resolve major hidden dangers.
Lead unit: Municipal Emergency Management Bureau
Responsible units: Municipal Water Resources Bureau, Municipal Public Security Bureau, Municipal Resource Planning Bureau, Municipal Urban Management Bureau, Municipal Urban Construction Bureau, Municipal Forestry Bureau, Municipal Meteorological Bureau, Municipal Fire Rescue Brigade
14. Artificial intelligence+public services. In the field of transportation, building a comprehensive transportation model to enhance traffic situation awareness, analysis and judgment, and traffic police business control capabilities, supporting the development of new formats such as "intelligent parking" and "parking space sharing" by "Zhenghao Parking". In the field of education, build customized corpora and high-quality datasets, and carry out large-scale model applications in scenarios such as teachers, teaching, and academic evaluation. In the field of scientific research, leveraging the advantages of big model technology in high-throughput screening, experimental prediction, structural analysis, literature data mining, etc., we aim to build a technology innovation intelligent agent and create a science and technology innovation ecosystem matrix. In the financial sector, encourage banking institutions to explore large-scale models in the front-end, middle, and back-end business scenarios of banks, and promote credit reporting agencies to increase their research and development efforts in credit reporting products and online credit loan products. In the field of logistics, with the construction of an international modern comprehensive transportation and logistics hub in Zhengzhou as the driving force, we will explore the demand for multimodal transportation of land, sea, rail, and air, promote the precise and intelligent development of logistics transportation, build a number of intelligent logistics parks, and promote the application of technologies such as intelligent integration of warehouse distribution and transportation, digital twins, etc.
Leading unit: Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Responsible units: Municipal Public Security Bureau, Municipal Transportation Bureau, Municipal Urban Management Bureau, Municipal Education Bureau, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Party Committee Financial Office, Municipal Government Port Office
15. Artificial intelligence+diverse applications. Developing new smart e-commerce in the consumer sector. In the field of spatiotemporal information, develop benchmark models for the spatiotemporal information industry. In the entertainment industry, support the use of big model technology to promote the development of new formats such as online games, immersive experiences, and script entertainment.
Leading units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Bureau of Resource Planning, Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism
（3） Strengthening the construction of intelligent computing power and consolidating the foundation of artificial intelligence development
16. Strengthen computing power support. Accelerate the construction or quality improvement and capacity expansion of major projects such as the national supercomputing Internet core node, the national supercomputing Zhengzhou Center, and the Zhengzhou Artificial Intelligence Computing Center. Promote the construction of a technologically advanced high-speed computing power carrying network, optimize the layout of domestically independent, controllable, secure and reliable computing infrastructure construction, enhance the cross network and cross regional data exchange capabilities of data centers, guide the intensive, large-scale and green development of data centers, and ensure the computing power, storage, network and security requirements of various models in distributed training, deployment, inference and other links.
Leading unit: Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Communications Management Office
17. Coordinate computing resources. Explore the establishment of a city wide computing power planning and scheduling platform, guide the access of various public computing power and market-based computing power resources by relying on the national supercomputing Internet core node project, create a cross regional urban computing power network, and realize the perceptual integration, flexible distribution, and intelligent adjustment of cross domain and heterogeneous computing network resources. Develop unified access standards and service standards, achieve intelligent scheduling, service, and control of computing power networks, and create a "networked computing power, integrated planning, and one-stop scheduling" computing power scheduling service system.
Leading unit: Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology
18. Increase data supply. Deepen the reform of market-oriented allocation of data elements, solidly carry out the construction of basic systems for data openness, strengthen public data governance, increase sharing and openness, and promote the operation of public data authorization. Support leading enterprises, scientific research institutions, and industry organizations to carry out the construction of industry common data resource libraries, create a batch of industry open corpora and test datasets, build a trustworthy data space, and guide enterprises and institutions to open up and gather high-value industry data. Strengthen and expand the Zhengzhou Data Trading Center, accelerate the cultivation of diverse entities such as data source merchants, data developers, data service providers, and platform service providers, and promote the comprehensive development of data collection, storage, cleaning, labeling, training, and other businesses.
Leading units: Smart Office of the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Administration Approval and Government Information Management Bureau
（4） Optimize the business environment and build an artificial intelligence innovation ecosystem
19. Promote the development of industrial agglomeration. Taking Zhongyuan Science and Technology City as the core, following the principles of relative concentration and functional coupling, we will promote the linkage of high-level innovation platforms in the region, gather leading artificial intelligence enterprises and corporate headquarters, build artificial intelligence industrial parks, and create a nationally influential source of artificial intelligence innovation. On the basis of Zhengzhou High tech Zone Digital Computing Industrial Park, build Henan Province Large Model Enabling Innovation Center, expand the application scenario of computing power, rely on Zhengzhou University, the PLA Information Engineering University and other innovative resource advantages, carry out the innovation and transformation of AI common key technologies, and build a leading area for high-quality development of AI industry. Focusing on key scenarios such as intelligent connected vehicles and components, high-end intelligent equipment, biopharmaceutical health, smart logistics, information security, digital economy, new generation information technology, and intelligent manufacturing, with Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone, Jinshui District, and Zhengzhou Airport Zone as the key areas, we will deepen the application of artificial intelligence scenarios, develop and strengthen artificial intelligence related industries such as intelligent connected vehicles, intelligent equipment, smart healthcare, intelligent terminals, and smart logistics, and create a demonstration zone for innovative application of artificial intelligence.
Leading unit: Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology
20. Improve the talent support system. Make good use of existing talent policies and actively introduce high-level talents and innovative teams in artificial intelligence. Encourage enterprises to flexibly introduce AI scarce talents through long-term and short-term employment, scenario application project cooperation, and other means. Relying on the artificial intelligence innovation platform, we will introduce and cultivate a team of high-level leading talents in artificial intelligence, attract a group of domestic and foreign high-end technology teams, key common technology R&D talents, and applied science and technology talents, and gather intelligence to break through technological innovation bottlenecks. Support key universities such as Zhengzhou University, Henan University, and Henan University of Technology to improve the discipline system of artificial intelligence and provide support for the cultivation of talents at various levels in the field of artificial intelligence.
Leading unit: Talent Office of the Municipal Party Committee
Responsible units: Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Education Bureau, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau
21. Improve the investment and financing mechanism. Give full play to the guiding role of government funds, establish an artificial intelligence industry development sub fund under the municipal strategic emerging industry investment fund, encourage the municipal angel fund to support artificial intelligence angel projects in accordance with market-oriented principles, adhere to market-oriented operations, and focus on investing in incubating early-stage projects and start-up high growth enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence. Encourage AI companies to conduct equity financing in multi-level capital markets both domestically and internationally, and support venture capital and investment institutions to strengthen their investment and mergers and acquisitions in AI startups. Encourage various financial institutions to carry out innovative businesses such as supporting intellectual property mortgages.
Lead unit: Municipal Finance Bureau
Responsible units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Financial Office, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau
3、 Guarantee measures
Under the leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, we will leverage the role of specialized teams in the application of artificial intelligence industry and innovative applications of artificial intelligence. Each department and unit will coordinate the allocation of important resources according to their functions and division of labor, form an efficient and collaborative task promotion mechanism, and promote the implementation of major plans, policies, key projects, and important work in the field of artificial intelligence.
