CNBC:

What are the details of the 15th Five-Year Plan regarding emerging and frontier industries? And how will AI be integrated into the development and manufacture of these industries?

Zheng Bei:

This question may be a concern for everyone, and it also involves the high-tech field. I would like to invite Mr. Bai Jingyu, director general of the NDRC's Department of Innovation and High-Tech Development, to address the question.

Bai Jingyu:

Thank you for your questions. A new wave of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is driving rapid breakthroughs, giving rise to a large number of new technologies, industries, business forms and models. This presents valuable opportunities for China's modernization. In order to firmly seize this rare historical opportunity, the draft outline includes dedicated arrangements for nurturing and expanding emerging and future industries, as well as for advancing digital and intelligent development. The major tasks can be summarized into three aspects: phased layout, ecosystem improvement, and digital and intelligent empowerment.

First, pursuing a tiered deployment. We will establish a development sequence for emerging industries composed of strategic emerging industries, emerging pillar industries, and future industries, integrating near-, medium-, and long-term planning. In the near term, we will continue to advance the development of strategic emerging industries such as next-generation information technology and new energy, and develop industrial clusters with distinctive features and with complementary strengths in light of local conditions. In the medium term, we will focus on fostering emerging pillar industries, including integrated circuits, biomedicine, and aerospace, to form new pillars to support the national economy. Looking further ahead, we will make forward-looking arrangements for future industries such as quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces, and embodied intelligence, cultivating the strategic emerging industries of tomorrow and the pillar industries of the future.

Second, we will focus on the fostering of a sound ecosystem characterized by innovation-driven growth, demand-led development, factor aggregation, locally tailored approaches, and effective regulation. To strengthen innovation leadership, we will organize and implement a number of industrial innovation initiatives, promote decisive breakthroughs in key and core technologies in priority areas across the entire innovation chain, and create new demand through new supply. To leverage application scenarios, we will launch demonstration programs, for the large-scale application of new technologies, new products, and new scenarios, allowing new demand to guide new supply. To promote factor aggregation, we will establish mechanisms to increase investment in future industries and share risks, strengthen talent cultivation in key fields, and optimize the layout of national-level science and technological innovation platforms, thereby providing strong support for industrial development. To ensure development suited to local conditions, we will strictly implement the arrangements for the layouts of major productive forces, guiding all parties to carry out their work in a scientific, rational, and pragmatic manner. To ensure effective regulation, we will advance legislation in emerging sectors, improve the market access system, and innovate regulatory approaches, properly balancing development and security, thereby energizing the market while ensuring sound regulation.

Third, promoting digital and intelligent empowerment. By ensuring the efficient supply of computing power, algorithms, and data, and leveraging digital and intelligent technologies, we will empower economic and social development and further advance the building of a Digital China. In terms of computing power, we will accelerate the development of a national integrated computing power network, promoting the scaled, intensive, green, and inclusive development of computing resources. In terms of algorithms, we will strive for breakthroughs in the basic theories and core technologies of artificial intelligence, strengthen the development of key algorithms, and promote iterative innovation in models and algorithms. In terms of data, we will improve the foundational institutions for data elements and deepen the development and utilization of data resources. In terms of empowerment, we will fully implement the "AI Plus" initiative, enabling all sectors and industries and promoting profound changes in production methods as well as the transformative leap in productivity. Thank you.