“By 2025, China will achieve major breakthroughs in basic AI theory, with some technologies and applications reaching world-leading levels and AI becoming the main driving force for China's industrial upgrading and economic transformation; the scale of AI's core industry will exceed 400 billion RMB and related industries will exceed 5 trillion RMB.”

State Council of China Policymaker

China's cabinet; issuer of the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan (Guofa [2017] No. 35)

Said Jul 20, 2017Deadline Dec 31, 2025New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, State Council of China, released 20 July 2017 (full English translation, New America)

MIIT reported at the December 2025 national industry conference that China's core AI industry exceeded 1 trillion RMB in 2025 — roughly 2.5x the 400 billion RMB target — and Chinese open-weight models such as DeepSeek's put some Chinese technologies at or near world-leading levels.