At its Aug 17 AI ecosystem partners conference, Alipay unveiled China’s first full-stack intelligent-agent commercial platform and a multi-agent cross-end interconnection AHA protocol, designed to support large-scale deployment of agents into life-service scenarios. Partners include Qianwen, Huawei, OPPO, BYD, Geely and more than 20 other firms to co-develop the intelligent-agent interconnection ecosystem.

Hunan provincial government office issued implementation opinions to accelerate the smart-robot industry, focusing on industrial robots, consumer service robots and special-operations robots and building an integrated chain covering key materials, core components, whole-machine R&D, pilot testing, smart manufacturing, application scenarios and data feedback. By 2028 the province seeks to push industry-chain revenue past 100 bln yuan, significantly raise capabilities in key materials, advanced manufacturing and core components, and cultivate around five chain-leading firms plus a cohort of specialized suppliers. By 2030 it seeks to exceed 200 bln yuan in revenue, establish a mature domestic supply system for precision transmission, high-precision sensing, motion control and lightweight alloys, cultivate roughly ten chain-leading firms and lift the sector into China’s national first tier.

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