Recently, Liaoning Province issued the Implementation Plan for Promoting the Innovation and Development of Artificial Intelligence in Liaoning Province. It is mentioned that by 2027, the "dual core" of Shenyang and Dalian will be used to drive and radiate, and various regions will work together to deeply empower thousands of industries, creating a new highland for the innovative development and integrated application of artificial intelligence. The basic construction system of computing power infrastructure in the province has been formed, achieving a computing power scale of over 5000PFLOPS, conquering over 100 key technologies, cultivating over 300 AI scale enterprises, over 5 industry leading enterprises, and 8 AI integrated development industry clusters. The level of technological innovation in the field of artificial intelligence is steadily improving, with comprehensive expansion of application scenarios, cultivation of more than 5 vertically influential large models, creation of a batch of high-quality industry datasets, creation of more than 100 replicable benchmark application scenarios, release of more than 200 fusion demonstration cases, emergence of a number of innovative typical practices and industry applications, and the core industry scale of artificial intelligence reaching 100 billion yuan.
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Implementation Plan for Promoting Innovative Development of Artificial Intelligence in Liaoning Province
In order to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the development of artificial intelligence, relying on the good foundation of digital industrialization and industrial digitization in Liaoning, and promoting the innovative development of artificial intelligence, the following implementation plan is formulated.
1、 Overall requirements
Give full play to the advantages of Liaoning's strong industrial foundation, complete industrial categories, and rich application scenarios, adhere to government guidance, enterprise subjectivity, reform driven, scenario driven, and innovation empowerment, build a high-quality development ecology, promote the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry, and inject new momentum into the continuous structural adjustment of the "three major articles", the construction of a "digital Liaoning, intelligent manufacturing strong province", and the construction of a modern industrial system with Liaoning characteristics. By 2027, we aim to achieve a "dual core" approach driven by Shenyang and Dalian, with coordinated progress across regions and deep empowerment of various industries, creating a new highland for innovative development and integrated application of artificial intelligence. The basic construction system of computing power infrastructure in the province has been formed, achieving a computing power scale of over 5000PFLOPS, conquering over 100 key technologies, cultivating over 300 AI scale enterprises, over 5 industry leading enterprises, and 8 AI integrated development industry clusters. The level of technological innovation in the field of artificial intelligence is steadily improving, with comprehensive expansion of application scenarios, cultivation of more than 5 vertically influential large models, creation of a batch of high-quality industry datasets, creation of more than 100 replicable benchmark application scenarios, release of more than 200 fusion demonstration cases, emergence of a number of innovative typical practices and industry applications, and the core industry scale of artificial intelligence reaching 100 billion yuan.
2、 Coordinate and promote the construction of computing infrastructure
(1) Optimize the computing power support base. Optimize the layout of computing power resources, coordinate the construction of computing power centers, guide the intensive construction of computing power centers in Shenyang, Dalian, Liaoxi and other regions, promote the diversified allocation of computing power structure, and encourage the deployment of general computing, intelligent computing, supercomputing, and edge computing power in a moderately advanced and on-demand manner. Support the creation of independent computing power clusters, encourage the use of national chips, support the construction of full stack domestically produced software and hardware platforms, and carry out the construction of green computing power centers. (Responsible units: Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Communication Management Bureau, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, municipal governments, and the Management Committee of the Shenfu Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone. The following must be implemented by municipal governments and the Management Committee of the Shenfu Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone, and will not be listed.)
(2) Strengthen collaborative planning between computer networks. Promote the construction of a computing power network quality monitoring system in Liaoning Province and advance the improvement of computing power network quality. Plan to build a provincial-level computing power interconnection platform and establish an efficient, green, and collaborative computing power network system. Build a "1-5-20ms" computing power network low latency loop to accelerate the construction of 10G optical broadband networks and 10G wireless networks. Strengthen the synchronous planning and construction of the Internet of Things and perception systems, build a digital low altitude infrastructure network that integrates low altitude communication and perception, and deepen the integrated development of intelligent networking, Beidou navigation, low altitude satellite communication, perception systems, etc. (Responsible units: Provincial Communications Administration, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
(3) Consolidate the foundation of data elements. Carry out a special action to enhance the capacity of public data supply, coordinate the construction of an integrated data resource management system throughout the province, promote the collection and sharing of public data resources, and drive the integration and application of data resources in the whole society. Explore the research and application of technologies such as trustworthy data space, blockchain, and privacy computing, build a data annotation base, and construct a batch of industry datasets. Relying on Dalian data trading institutions to promote the development of data trading and support the circulation and value release of data elements. (Responsible units: Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Party Committee Cyberspace Administration)
(4) Accelerate the development of large-scale models. Strengthen the research on algorithm theory and industry application algorithms such as machine learning. Encourage the development of general large-scale models, support universities, research institutions, and enterprises to jointly create independent and controllable general large-scale models, promote the development of vertical large-scale model technology in key areas, and carry out driving research and development around key links. Focusing on the training, application, and promotion of vertical large-scale models in fields such as petrochemicals, healthcare, and marine economy, we aim to create a group of industry-leading vertical large-scale model products. (Responsible units: Provincial Party Committee Cyberspace Administration, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Data Bureau)
3、 Continuously strengthening basic research
(5) Explore cutting-edge technologies. Strengthen the foresight of cutting-edge technologies, and achieve original theoretical breakthroughs in areas such as large-scale model infrastructure and algorithms, quantum computing, generative artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence, etc; Innovate around cutting-edge technologies such as multimodal intelligence and neuromorphic intelligence, focus on the integration of intelligent molecular engineering and biotechnology to conduct scientific research driven by artificial intelligence, and strive to achieve a number of original results. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Education)
(6) Implement key technological breakthroughs. Actively strive for major national science and technology projects, and carry out technological breakthroughs in areas such as autonomous driving algorithms, embodied intelligence, and smart medical devices. Promote the development of key foundational software such as operating systems in key areas, and facilitate the integration of artificial intelligence technology with system software such as robot operating systems, intelligent driving systems, and industrial software. Support the collaborative development of application algorithms and domestic chips, and continuously promote the process of localization adaptation. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Education)
(7) Build a science and technology innovation platform base. Promote deepening cooperation between enterprises, research institutions, universities, and major innovation platforms, cultivate and construct science and technology innovation platform bases, and develop and strengthen the group of key artificial intelligence laboratories; Accelerate the construction of concept validation centers, pilot bases, and other carriers in the field of artificial intelligence. Explore the creation of a batch of public service platforms for the artificial intelligence industry, forming a unified and complete support service system. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Department of Education)
4、 Develop and strengthen industrial clusters
(8) Build emerging pillar industries. Promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence technology innovation and industrial innovation, assist in the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and open up new tracks for strategic emerging industries and future industrial development. Build emerging pillar industries around strategic emerging and future industries, as well as related industrial chains such as intelligent connected new energy vehicles, artificial intelligence smartphones and computers, and intelligent robots. Based on the construction of trillion level industrial bases and key industrial clusters in the province, accelerate the promotion of enterprises' "smart transformation from digital to networked". (Responsible units: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Data Bureau)
(9) Promote the "strengthening, supplementing and extending" of the industrial chain. Layout the intelligent terminal industry around smart wearable devices, intelligent transportation vehicles, industrial grade intelligent terminal devices, etc. Create a series of embodied intelligent robot products to promote the deep integration of large models and robot bodies. Strengthen supporting products such as servo motors and sensors. Promote the localization and application of key equipment such as integrated circuit equipment, improve software and hardware solutions, and extend local industries. Strengthen the research and application of new materials. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Development and Reform Commission)
(10) Promote the development of industrial agglomeration. Build platform bases such as artificial intelligence incubation and innovation communities, and accelerate the construction of national new generation artificial intelligence public computing power open innovation platforms in Shenyang and Dalian. Promote Shenyang to accelerate the construction of a national new generation artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone, and strive to become a national artificial intelligence innovation and application pilot zone; Promote the construction of a leading intelligent computing ecosystem in Dalian, and carry out vertical large-scale model customization optimization and application in fields such as chemical engineering and ocean. Give full play to the advantages of Liaoning urban agglomeration and industrial clusters, create smart industrial parks tailored to local conditions, and build prefecture level artificial intelligence empowerment centers. Anshan, Benxi, Liaoyang, Panjin, Huludao and other cities are creating application scenario demonstrations around smart steel, smart mines, smart oil fields, smart chemicals, etc; Fuxin, Tieling, Chaoyang and other cities are exploring the application of artificial intelligence in the field of wind and photovoltaic power. (Responsible units: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Data Bureau)
(11) Cultivate and strengthen market entities. Relying on scene openness to attract and cultivate market entities. Intensify efforts to attract and cultivate chain leading enterprises such as AI chips, large models, and basic software, encourage leading enterprises to establish regional headquarters and research and development centers, and cultivate a number of supporting enterprises. Implement the Liaoning State owned Assets' "Embracing AI" Special Action. Introduce and cultivate diverse entities such as data source vendors and data service providers. Dynamically establish an artificial intelligence gradient enterprise database, promote the upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises, expand the leading enterprise lineup, and accelerate the cultivation of a group of specialized, refined, and new "little giants", gazelles, unicorns, and other enterprises. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission)
5、 Launch the 'Artificial Intelligence+' campaign
(12) Empowering industrial development.
Artificial intelligence+manufacturing. Focus on building eight AI integrated development industrial clusters around intelligent networked vehicles, industrial machines, intelligent robots, petrochemical industry, shipbuilding, iron and steel metallurgy, aviation equipment, etc. Implement the industrial full process intelligent doubling plan, accelerate the intelligent transformation, and strengthen the application of artificial intelligence in industrial design. Encourage the application and promotion of technologies such as human-machine collaborative manufacturing, flexible configuration of production lines, virtual verification, and pilot testing. Consolidate the base of industrial Internet, promote the full coverage of the secondary nodes of identity analysis in 22 key industrial clusters in the province, and accelerate the "cloud application and intelligence" of enterprises. Promote the application of large-scale models in the pharmaceutical industry and shorten the drug development cycle. (Leading unit: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
Artificial intelligence+agriculture. Vigorously develop smart agriculture, promote technology and equipment such as environmental monitoring and regulation, and precise management of water, fertilizer, and medicine. Utilize large-scale models to enhance capabilities in biological breeding, pest and disease monitoring and early warning. Promote the digital transformation of the entire agricultural industry chain. Expand application scenarios and create a smart agriculture application base. Based on the digital comprehensive service platform for rural revitalization in the province, we will build a collaborative innovation system for agricultural and rural big data, apply software tools such as platform bases, and promote the digitization of management services and data assetization. (Leading unit: Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)
Artificial intelligence+technology. Strengthen the exploration of cutting-edge basic theories and innovation of common technologies in artificial intelligence. Encourage the exploration of the application of big model technology in high-throughput screening, experimental prediction, structural analysis, literature data mining, and other key scientific research fields such as new material research and development, drug research and development, biological breeding, and genetic research. Establish a professional corpus in the field of scientific research to support the development of new research models in basic disciplines. (Leading unit: Provincial Department of Science and Technology)
(13) Empowering public services.
Artificial intelligence+education. Promote the education of artificial intelligence throughout the entire school and general education throughout society. Deepen the construction of application scenarios such as empowering education and teaching, exam evaluation, and teaching management with artificial intelligence. Give full play to the role of artificial intelligence technology in teaching students according to their aptitude, promoting comprehensive development of students, and enhancing teachers' abilities. Accelerate the construction of digital campuses, promote the construction of online classrooms and virtual classrooms, and strengthen the application of products and technologies such as intelligent teaching assistants, educational robots, and virtual experiments. (Lead unit: Provincial Department of Education)
Artificial intelligence+healthcare. Accelerate the high-level application of artificial intelligence technology in medical services, traditional Chinese medicine management services, health management and other medical and health fields. Using natural language processing, image recognition and other technologies to assist clinical diagnosis and post hospital patient management, promoting the construction of AI assisted diagnosis and treatment systems in medical institutions, and enhancing the service capabilities of grassroots medical institutions. (Lead unit: Provincial Health Commission)
Artificial intelligence+transportation. Accelerate the construction of smart highways, promote the intelligent expansion and safety efficiency improvement of highway transportation infrastructure, establish an integrated practical command system for provincial and municipal public security traffic "situation guidance and action", and promote the reform of the high perception service system for highways. Promote the development and application of low altitude transportation scenarios. Expand new scenarios for autonomous driving and promote and apply intelligent connected vehicles in Shenyang and Dalian. Build an integrated digital base for the transportation industry and promote the application of large-scale models in the transportation field. (Leading units: Provincial Department of Transportation, Provincial Department of Public Security)
(14) Empower business travel consumption.
Artificial intelligence+consumption. Encourage the creation of smart retail stores and the development of contactless shopping models. Promote intelligent health consumption services and encourage the consumption of intelligent health products and intelligent education hardware products. Support enterprises to carry out e-commerce AI empowerment actions and enhance the core competitiveness of e-commerce enterprises. (Leading unit: Provincial Department of Commerce)
Artificial intelligence+cultural, sports and tourism. Build a smart cultural and sports tourism infrastructure system and optimize the smart cultural and sports tourism platform. Promote the application of intelligent navigation, intelligent customer service, and precision marketing in various scenarios. Develop digital cultural tourism and entertainment products, innovate cultural tourism and creative product design, and build an experiential cultural integration journey. Strengthen the application of artificial intelligence in cultural, sports and tourism management, develop intelligent sports products and services, and build and promote smart sports facilities. (Leading units: Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Sports Bureau)
(15) Empowering social governance.
Artificial intelligence+government affairs. Promote the deep application of artificial intelligence technology in government consultation, business processing, social governance, office work, and auxiliary decision-making scenarios, enhance the capabilities of "one-stop service" for government services, "one-stop management" for social governance, and "one-stop collaboration" for government operations, and build a smart government. (Lead unit: Provincial Data Bureau)
Artificial Intelligence+City. Accelerate the construction of smart cities, promote the integration of basic platform functions such as urban information models, spatiotemporal big data, and national land spatial basic information. Build smart communities and promote the application of intelligent service robots, intelligent transportation vehicles, intelligent terminals, etc. in urban governance. (Leading units: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Data Bureau)
Artificial intelligence+environmental protection. Strengthen the utilization efficiency of ecological environment data resources, create core business scenarios such as artificial intelligence technology empowering environmental monitoring and supervision, and enhance the modernization level of ecological environment governance driven by data intelligence, forward-looking monitoring and early warning, and precise regulatory decision-making. (Lead unit: Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)
Artificial intelligence+security. Build a "smart emergency brain" to enhance the ability of accident and disaster risk prediction and early warning, perception monitoring, analysis and evaluation, as well as regulatory enforcement, decision-making, command and dispatch. Establish a public security artificial intelligence service architecture, explore the empowerment of artificial intelligence in industry regulation, administrative law enforcement, criminal justice and other regulatory supervision systems. (Leading units: Provincial Emergency Department, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Justice, Provincial Procuratorate, Provincial Court)
(16) Empower the entire industry and region. Fully leverage the empowering role of artificial intelligence technology, explore application scenarios in various industries such as energy, finance, elderly care, spatiotemporal information, employment security, and legal environment construction, and strive to create a number of scenarios, cultivate a number of enterprises, and develop a number of industries. (Responsible units: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Financial Management Bureau, Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Justice, etc.)
6、 Building a high-quality industrial ecosystem
(17) Intensify efforts to attract and cultivate talents. Strengthen the interdisciplinary integration of "artificial intelligence+", enhance the independent training of composite talents, and empower enterprises with the right to independently recognize talents. Optimize and improve the "Xingliao Talent Plan", increase the introduction and training of innovative and entrepreneurial teams and high-end talents, and encourage the linkage between schools and enterprises to build research institutes, training bases, etc. (Responsible units: Provincial Party Committee Organization Department, Provincial Department of Education, Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
(18) Optimize policy service support. Optimize approval services, accelerate the approval of pilot bases and concept validation centers, and optimize the registration and filing management of model algorithms. Guided by the National Comprehensive Experimental Zone for Data Elements, we will strengthen institutional construction and practical exploration, and build an integrated data element market system. Carry out new professional certifications such as Artificial Intelligence Application Engineer. Make good use of national policy funds, coordinate provincial funds, strengthen government procurement guidance, and increase support for start-up projects. Policies will be implemented for eligible enterprise projects, including exemption from application and direct fast access. Eligible products will be included in the scope of the first major technical equipment support policy, and "computing power coupons" will be issued to reduce the cost of enterprise training and application. (Responsible units: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Financial Management Bureau)
(19) Innovative investment and financing models. Intensify financing guarantees for artificial intelligence enterprises and guide banking and financial institutions to provide credit support. Establish a provincial artificial intelligence development fund, introduce equity investment and venture capital, strengthen patient capital, and guide technology insurance and industry insurance to strengthen support. Encourage market entities to raise funds through issuing technology innovation bonds, infrastructure real estate investment trust funds, and other means. (Responsible units: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Financial Management Bureau)
(20) Strengthen typical demonstration and guidance. Adopting the "unveiling and leading" approach to solicit application scenario solutions, establishing a project "horse racing" mechanism, and giving priority support to advanced models. Regularly release vertical large-scale models, typical benchmark application scenarios, and excellent integration demonstration cases, strengthen intellectual property protection, and promote the industrialization of achievements. Encourage regions with conditions to take the lead in promoting innovative development of artificial intelligence. Encourage artificial intelligence enterprises to actively participate in international and domestic cooperation and exchanges. Organize various competitions and activities, strengthen publicity and guidance, and carry out scientific popularization. (Responsible units: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Science and Technology)
(21) Strengthen safety empowerment supervision. Adhere to the equal importance of security, trustworthiness, and innovative development, implement precise classification and differentiated management based on the actual situation of various industries and fields, and ensure data security, privacy security, and network security. Encourage various entities to participate in the formulation of standards and norms related to artificial intelligence, establish a risk monitoring and early warning system, emergency response system for big models in terms of technology ethics, etc., ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence under supervision and control, and empower the safety of various industries. (Responsible units: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Data Bureau, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Party Committee Cyberspace Administration, Provincial Communication Management Bureau)
Establish a work coordination mechanism led by the main leaders of the provincial government, promoted by the responsible leaders in different fields, and comprehensively coordinated by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission. Under the overall guidance of the provincial work coordination mechanism, all regions and departments should solidly promote the implementation of various tasks according to their respective responsibilities. Give full play to the existing work mechanism, implement the responsibility of managing both the industry and the scenario, and build a "1+N+X" system (1 overall plan, N key area action plans, 14+1 regional plans) to prevent the occurrence of "internal competition" in a rush. Explore the establishment of a Chief Data Officer system in government and enterprises, strengthen training and education on artificial intelligence literacy for public officials, establish a scientific and reasonable fault-tolerant and error correction mechanism, and create a favorable environment. The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, and Provincial Data Bureau should strengthen coordination and cooperation, work with relevant departments to promote the implementation of the plan, and timely report major issues according to procedures.