Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: The next step will be to carry out a special campaign of "Artificial Intelligence + Software," accelerate the research and development application of intelligent programming, and promote the orderly deployment of computing power and edge computing infrastructure.

Mars Finance News, April 28 — Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ke Jixin, stated at the State Council policy briefing that moving forward, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will promote the extension of productive service industries toward specialization and higher value chains, accelerate the innovative development of software and information technology services. Especially in empowering the information service industry with artificial intelligence, launching a special campaign of “Artificial Intelligence + Software,” speeding up the research and application of intelligent programming, and cultivating new business models such as model-as-a-service and agent-as-a-service. Further strengthen open-source ecosystem construction, promote intelligent upgrades of basic software and industrial software. Improve the digital and intelligent transformation service system for manufacturing, and classify and grade high-quality digital and intelligent transformation service providers. Deeply implement the industrial internet innovation development project, orderly promote computing power deployment and edge computing infrastructure, and improve the intelligent computing cloud service system. Carry out industrial data foundational initiatives, building a batch of high-quality datasets in the industrial field. Focus on “strengthening software services and creating new chapters in digital intelligence,” injecting new vitality into the high-quality development of China’s service industry. (China.com)