Recently, the General Office of the People's Government of Ningbo City issued the "Action Plan for the Innovation and Development of Artificial Intelligence in Ningbo City (2025-2030)". It is proposed that by 2027, the scale of the core artificial intelligence industry in the city will reach 120 billion yuan, striving to become a national level artificial intelligence innovation application pilot zone (base). Cultivate 30 vertical models with industry influence, establish 10 industry data circulation platforms, 25 high-quality datasets, and pilot 3 trustworthy data spaces. There are 3 key enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence with a value of over 10 billion yuan and 120 key enterprises with a value of over 100 million yuan in the city. 50 iconic products at or above the provincial level have been created, and 3 provincial-level leading areas and application bases for future industries in the field of artificial intelligence have been established. Build 80 benchmark enterprises, demonstration application scenarios, and typical application cases for artificial intelligence applications at or above the provincial level. The Yongjiang Talent Project supports more than 50 quotas annually, and the "Science and Technology Innovation Yongjiang 2035" project supports more than 20 projects annually. A total of 10 new innovative tasks in the field of artificial intelligence have been added, and the scale of the city's artificial intelligence fund has reached 10 billion yuan. By 2030, the core industry scale of artificial intelligence in the city will reach 180 billion yuan, and the comprehensive strength of artificial intelligence will enter the first echelon in the country.
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Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development in Ningbo City (2025-2030)
In order to implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee, the State Council, the Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial Government on the innovation and development of artificial intelligence, promote the innovation and development of artificial intelligence in Ningbo, and combine with the actual situation of our city, this action plan is specially formulated.
1、 Target requirements
Fully leverage the advantages of our city's solid industrial foundation, leading digital city, and forward-looking strategic layout, with the "Artificial Intelligence+" action as the guide, strengthen the foundation layer, strengthen the product layer, and deepen the application layer, build an ecological system dominated by "industry vertical models+high-quality datasets" and characterized by "iconic products+extensive scenario applications+new talent cultivation", and create an AI industry development base and innovative application highland with national competitiveness and influence.
By 2027, the core industry scale of artificial intelligence in the city will reach 120 billion yuan, striving to become a national level artificial intelligence innovation and application pilot zone (base). Cultivate 30 vertical models with industry influence, establish 10 industry data circulation platforms, 25 high-quality datasets, and pilot 3 trustworthy data spaces. There are 3 key enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence with a value of over 10 billion yuan and 120 key enterprises with a value of over 100 million yuan in the city. 50 iconic products at or above the provincial level have been created, and 3 provincial-level leading areas and application bases for future industries in the field of artificial intelligence have been established. Build 80 benchmark enterprises, demonstration application scenarios, and typical application cases for artificial intelligence applications at or above the provincial level. The Yongjiang Talent Project supports more than 50 quotas annually, and the "Science and Technology Innovation Yongjiang 2035" project supports more than 20 projects annually. A total of 10 new innovative tasks in the field of artificial intelligence have been added, and the scale of the city's artificial intelligence fund has reached 10 billion yuan. By 2030, the core industry scale of artificial intelligence in the city will reach 180 billion yuan, and the comprehensive strength of artificial intelligence will enter the first echelon in the country.
2、 Key tasks
（1） Foundation Base Compaction Action
1. Cultivate industry vertical models and intelligent agents. Guide industry leading enterprises to develop vertical models for the industry, promote real-world scenario verification, and promote their application to small and medium-sized enterprises. Classify and promote software information service enterprises to enhance their software product and service capabilities through computing power construction, model deployment, and other methods, and promote software information service enterprises to implement intelligent technology transformation with intelligent agents as the core. Promote industrial Internet platforms, digital service providers and other entities to create industrial models and agents, and deepen the solution of intelligent transformation and digital transformation scenarios.
2. Cultivate the ability to supply data elements. Iteratively build a city wide integrated data base, carry out the "Data Element X" action, explore the connection between public and industry data, and deepen the construction of authorized operation and trading systems. Build data platforms or training grounds for industries such as healthcare and embodied intelligence, and create high-quality datasets and products. Promote the maturity assessment model for data management capabilities (DCMM), pilot projects for trusted data spaces, and other initiatives to enhance enterprise data governance capabilities.
3. Build a diversified intelligent computing supply system. According to the requirements of national and provincial planning and construction of computing power, guide market-oriented entities to build intelligent computing centers that are close to the edge of application scenarios and end side computing power. Guide enterprises to layout domestic computing power and tackle intelligent computing cloud service capabilities such as heterogeneous chip adaptation. Coordinate the city's computing power resources, establish a computing power resource scheduling mechanism, and explore computing power trading mechanisms. Promote the construction of dual gigabit and 10 gigabit optical networks, and accelerate the research and development of key technologies such as satellite communication, 6G, and quantum communication.
（2） Cultivation Action of Industrial Chain Cluster
1. Strengthen core software and hardware. Focus on developing customized and functional artificial intelligence chips, layout advanced materials and packaging testing technologies that are compatible with artificial intelligence chips; Breaking through multimodal and high-precision intelligent sensing technology, laying out the "perception+computing" sensing product spectrum; Develop artificial intelligence software products such as content generation, development tools, and operating systems.
2. Create iconic smart terminals. Focusing on intelligent bicycles, accelerating the construction of an innovative ecosystem for intelligent connected vehicles, and actively promoting the industrialization of research and development of L3 level and above autonomous driving models. Accelerate the cultivation of humanoid robots, use scenario applications to assist in the verification and commercialization of key technologies, promote whole machine collaboration, and facilitate the adaptation of automotive parts production lines. Develop artificial intelligence consumer products with strong sensing, computing, and multimodal interaction capabilities for fields such as smart homes and wearable devices.
3. Cultivate intelligent native enterprises. Encourage eligible enterprises to integrate artificial intelligence into strategic planning, organizational structure, business processes, etc., and promote the development of all factor intelligence. Vigorously develop intelligent native technologies, products, and service systems, and accelerate the cultivation of a group of AI based intelligent native enterprises with underlying architectures and operational logic.
4. Build strong characteristic industrial clusters. Promote the Yongjiang Science and Technology Innovation Zone to build a landmark of the city's artificial intelligence industry based on its software advantages, and promote the high-level construction of Haishu District as a leading area for artificial intelligence innovation and application in Zhejiang Province. Encourage all districts (counties, cities) to plan and construct artificial intelligence industrial parks, industrial buildings, and incubators around segmented fields, and actively build national and provincial artificial intelligence pilot zones and application bases.
（3） Application scenario fusion action
1. Establish a mechanism to promote scene innovation. Focus on key areas such as manufacturing, people's livelihood, and governance, and create a number of exemplary and widely driven typical application scenarios. Targeting scenario application providers and providers of new technologies and products, we will strengthen the supply and demand docking of various entities such as government departments and state-owned enterprises, establish a working mechanism of "scenario collection planning release docking implementation promotion", promote scenario openness, technology verification, and product iteration.
2. Deepen the integration of "artificial intelligence+manufacturing". Develop a reference guide for typical scenarios of "artificial intelligence+manufacturing", focusing on industrial clusters such as green petrochemicals and new energy vehicles, and accelerating the application of artificial intelligence in the core links of the manufacturing industry. Using the establishment of a national pilot base for artificial intelligence applications as a carrier, build common capabilities such as model pools and datasets, and create an industry artificial intelligence store. Continuously promote the pilot work of empowering the manufacturing industry with provincial-level artificial intelligence, such as automotive parts, in Yinzhou District.
3. Promote the empowerment of characteristic industries with artificial intelligence. Enhance the level of digitalization in key areas of the service industry such as technology finance and commercial circulation, promote the application of intelligent customer service and intelligent marketing, and accelerate the construction of financial risk control models and the "four port linkage" of port, shipping and logistics. Promote the empowerment of agriculture with artificial intelligence, advance the application of technologies such as intelligent breeding and disease and pest identification, and expand the construction of scenarios such as livestock carrying capacity warning and deep-sea net cage inspection.
4. Promote artificial intelligence to empower people's livelihoods. Based on the reference guidelines for national health industry scenarios, we aim to develop intelligent assisted diagnosis and treatment, as well as AI assisted decision-making for grassroots general practitioners, and explore the construction of health industry and medical research scenarios. Promote the allocation of teaching resources, educational governance and evaluation, and other smart education scenarios, as well as the construction of smart cultural and tourism scenarios such as metaverse scenic spots, passenger flow forecasting and resource scheduling.
5. Promote artificial intelligence to empower government governance. Based on vertical models in the fields of national natural resources and emergency management, we aim to create artificial intelligence scenarios such as urban image recognition and comprehensive monitoring and early warning of urban safety risks. Constructing integrated environmental monitoring, digital twin cities, low altitude unmanned aerial vehicle inspections, shipping optimization, and risk warning applications. Focusing on the improvement of government efficiency and the common needs of public services, we will deepen the application and promotion of artificial intelligence capabilities in government affairs such as intelligent office, intelligent question and answer, retrieval, and Q&A.
（4） New Talent Training Action
1. Increase efforts to attract talent. Iterative implementation of the Yongjiang Talent Project, favoring talents in the field of artificial intelligence through separate tracks and evaluations. Explore new criteria for talent evaluation based on salary and benefits, code citation count, open source community influence, and "thousand card/ten thousand card level" training experience.
2. Strengthen the cultivation of professional talents. Plan to establish an artificial intelligence college, optimize disciplinary settings, increase the construction of artificial intelligence related majors, expand the scale of training, and cultivate talents such as algorithm engineers and data analysts. Deepen the integration of industry and education, school enterprise cooperation, establish joint training platforms such as artificial intelligence training and internship bases, and increase efforts to cultivate compound talents.
3. Reshaping the cultivation of data skilled talents. Targeting multimodal and professional data governance, we aim to cultivate skilled personnel in data cleaning, annotation, processing, and other areas based on professional knowledge. Explore the certification of data talent industry, carry out vocational skill level recognition, and promote the career development of high skilled data and digital economy professionals.
4. Enhance the general literacy of the entire society. Build an artificial intelligence basic education system with literacy education as the core, and promote the integration of artificial intelligence into textbooks and classrooms. Promote various market institutions to carry out general education training, widely promote artificial intelligence publicity and education, and popularize knowledge. Integrate artificial intelligence training content into the education and training system for leading cadres, and expand the coverage of cadre education and training.
（5） Innovative Ecological Optimization Action
1. Strengthen the allocation of technological resources. Implement the "Science and Technology Innovation Yongjiang 2035" major scientific and technological research and development plan, focusing on key core technologies of artificial intelligence, focusing on high-performance computing power, heterogeneous chip adaptation, and other software and hardware technology research and development. Breakthrough common technologies in fields such as machine learning, human-computer interaction, multi-agent collaboration, multimodal fusion and generative models, embodied intelligent robots, etc., and develop iconic intelligent products.
2. Promote the layout of high-energy platforms. Implement innovative platform AI empowerment actions, promote the construction of platform carriers such as the Key Laboratory of Space Intelligence and Digital Derivatives at Ningbo Oriental Institute of Technology, and rely on the School of Software at Zhejiang University and the Yongjiang Laboratory to build key laboratories and concept verification centers for artificial intelligence. Establish an innovation consortium, implement the "unveiling and leading" strategy, and explore the mechanism of "demand driven joint research and development engineering verification".
3. Increase financial capital support. Give full play to the guiding role of the government and state-owned funds, guide the establishment of special funds in the field of artificial intelligence, and create a billion dollar industrial fund group. Expand market-oriented equity financing channels, encourage venture capital and venture capital to strengthen investment and mergers and acquisitions in start-up enterprises. Innovate financial and insurance products such as "artificial intelligence loans (insurance)" and increase service efforts for artificial intelligence enterprises and projects.
4. Build an open source community. Consolidate the strength of enterprises, universities, and developers, build and operate an open-source Ningbo urban community, promote the release of native open-source projects such as artificial intelligence models, components, and datasets, support open access to models and application development, and create a new paradigm of "artificial intelligence+open-source". Organize technology salons, artificial intelligence applications in enterprises and universities, and other activities to create an atmosphere of open source innovation.
（6） Security System Construction Action
1. Strengthen safety guidance and supervision. Promote the implementation of national standards in the field of artificial intelligence, such as content identification methods and security assessment norms, guide model research and development enterprises to apply for compliance filing and security review, promote the normalization of enterprise evaluation and testing, and enhance risk prevention capabilities.
2. Improve basic security capabilities. Promote various market entities, universities and institutions to jointly carry out research on security technologies such as adversarial sample defense, privacy computing, interpretable artificial intelligence, and participate in the formulation of national and group standards. Implement a data classification and grading system, enhance intelligent threat monitoring and dynamic access control capabilities, and strengthen the data security operating environment.
3. Cultivate product and service capabilities. Promote security service providers to expand and build a situational awareness monitoring platform for the field of artificial intelligence, develop security models and inspection tools, and provide security solutions. Build a digital security capability platform for cities and an artificial intelligence security industry base, develop generative content security monitoring products, and develop security application scenarios such as industrial simulation and urban governance.
3、 Guarantee measures
Establish a coordinated work system for the innovation and development of artificial intelligence, and promote the implementation of major strategies, key projects, and important resources. Build a task system of "action plan+policy measures+work points", and strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of the development of the city's artificial intelligence industry in accordance with the requirements of "project-based promotion, list based implementation, and time bound implementation". Focusing on the research and application of artificial intelligence models, innovative demonstration application scenarios, landmark innovation achievements, etc., providing policy support, and coordinating the synergy of industry, technology, talent and other policies. Organize competitions, forums, and exhibitions in the field of artificial intelligence, explore benchmark projects, commend outstanding enterprises (talents), cultivate "first mover" positions, and shape the "AI Ningbo" city brand.
