China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice to
cultivate AI application service providers, opening real-world scenarios for
vendor pilots, accelerating vendor R&D and commercialization, and building
benchmark solutions. The ministry will explore procurement mechanisms, including
first-purchase/first-use and risk‑compensation models, to increase purchases of
foundation models, AI agents and token services and improve industry model and
AI usage quality. Regions with capacity are asked to set up comprehensive
overseas‑expansion services and use Belt and Road, BRICS and China‑ASEAN
cooperation platforms to promote export and deployment of high‑quality AI
application projects.
