Shanghai municipal government issued its Service Industry Development 15th
Five-Year Plan, prioritizing expansion of intelligent-technology services. The
plan directs large-scale development of AI software and services, with emphasis
on generative AI and applications in face/image recognition, AR/VR, intelligent
transport, smart logistics, online education and energy, and aims to establish
AI software industry clusters. It mandates AI+ R&D focused on biomedicine, new
materials and new energy, strengthening technology breakthroughs, data
governance and institutional safeguards. The plan supports embodied-intelligence
products for home, eldercare, cultural tourism and commercial use to accelerate
robots’ shift from task execution to general-intelligence, scenario-based
refined services. It calls for beefing up intelligent-compute cloud networks
with coordinated compute-storage-network architecture, promoting AI–cloud
integration and Model-as-a-Service (MaaS). The plan also targets development of
AI+ cloud-platform benchmark scenarios in finance, healthcare and
cultural-tourism verticals.
