Introduction

As satellites traverse Earth’s orbit, artificial intelligence (AI) crosses borders, profoundly reshaping global development and cooperation. By 2025, China’s open-source AI development will achieve leapfrog progress, positioning it among the world’s leaders. China has consistently adopted an open and inclusive stance, providing solid support for global AI collaborative development. From green data centers operating day and night in the Guizhou mountains to precision agriculture projects in Mozambique relying on “Beidou + drone” technology, and the establishment of an ASEAN AI multilingual translation center bridging civilizations, practical cooperation scenes and vivid practices collectively depict a grand vision of the world empowered by “AI +”.

AI International Cooperation Initiative

In September 2025, China proposed the “AI + International Cooperation Initiative,” an international public product grounded in the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. This initiative focuses on five key areas: improving people’s livelihoods, technological progress, industrial applications, cultural prosperity, and talent cultivation, establishing an action framework for global AI collaborative development, which has garnered widespread attention and positive responses from the international community.

The initiative prioritizes people’s livelihoods, ensuring that AI technology benefits citizens of all countries, especially aiding developing nations in overcoming challenges. In Mozambique’s Gaza Province, the China-Mozambique agricultural cooperation project introduced China’s “Beidou + drone” precision agriculture technology. Agricultural drones are widely used for tasks such as farmland mapping, rice planting, and pest control, covering over 80,000 acres, transforming low-yield fields into high-yield ones, with rice yields increasing from about 150 kg to over 400 kg per acre, and some demonstration fields reaching 500 kg, with high-yield plots even surpassing 550 kg. In healthcare, AI-assisted diagnosis systems extend quality resources to remote areas, enhancing diagnostic accuracy through image recognition. In education, intelligent learning platforms break geographical barriers, allowing students in developing countries to share global quality resources, bringing technology’s warmth to every corner.

Technological Support

Behind the technological warmth is a solid scientific foundation. Technological progress is the core driving force of “AI +”. The related initiatives lead innovation paradigm shifts and promote cross-domain collaborative research and development. Currently, China ranks among the top tier globally in large model research and open-source development, with a comprehensive system of general large models and industry-specific vertical models increasingly refined. Through open-source sharing, China provides low-cost, inclusive model technology support to the world. Based on this, China builds a solid foundation for global AI cooperation with dual pillars of model technology innovation and green computing power construction. As of November 2025, the Guizhou green data center cluster achieves low-carbon operation relying on hydropower, with a PUE value below 1.2 and a total computing power scale exceeding 100,000 PFLOPS, with intelligent computing power accounting for over 98%. The Hohhot computing hub utilizes wind and solar green electricity, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 640,000 tons annually, leading the country in exploring carbon sink mutual recognition for computing power. Nationwide, by the end of 2025, China’s intelligent computing power scale will reach 1.59 million PFLOPS, with eight planned national computing hubs accelerating construction, and a total of 306 national green computing facilities established, providing a replicable Chinese model for global green computing development. In basic scientific research, AI large models deeply empower cutting-edge fields such as biomanufacturing and quantum technology, aiding global researchers in sharing innovative results.

Reshaping Supply Chains

AI’s empowerment of global development profoundly reshapes industrial and supply chains. The initiative advocates for using AI to empower industrial upgrades and cultivate new business formats, stabilizing global industrial supply chains. China’s “computing power supply + R&D application” linkage demonstration has shown significant results: Beijing Haidian focuses on AI R&D and results transformation, while Shanghai Lingang builds a cross-border computing power hub. Eight national computing hub nodes collaborate to construct a nationwide integrated computing network, supporting cross-border capacity collaboration. On the Haizhi online platform, a European engineer’s 3D gear drawing is analyzed by AI in milliseconds, accurately connecting with small and medium-sized enterprises in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The platform bridges the information gap in non-standard parts trade with over 200 factory tags and more than 100 demand tags, facilitating efficient circulation of over a million industrial drawings, helping various enterprises smoothly integrate into global industrial division. In Russia’s Far East, AI smart agricultural machinery significantly enhances agricultural productivity; in Uzbekistan, AI photovoltaic cleaning robots ensure stable output of green electricity; in Tajikistan’s smart mining areas and Pakistan’s urban intelligent security systems, China’s digital and intelligent solutions deeply integrate with local needs, confirming that multilateral cooperation is an effective path to promote industrial empowerment.

Cultural Exchange

Civilization flourishes through communication, and “AI +” is becoming a digital bridge for mutual learning among civilizations. Cultural prosperity is an important dimension of the global civilization initiative, centered on promoting mutual understanding through AI. The cooperation between China and Malaysia serves as a model. Chinese tech companies collaborate with local enterprises to build an ASEAN AI multilingual translation center, supporting translation in over 130 languages, achieving rapid translation of film and television content in just 30 minutes. Additionally, in the 2025 Belt and Road and BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition, over a hundred teams from various countries compete in AI-enabled instructional design. Concurrently launched, the “Global South AI Workshop” provides a new platform for countries to deepen cooperation in “AI + vocational education.” The application of AI in digital cultural tourism and cultural heritage preservation revitalizes cultural heritage from various countries, showcasing the humanistic warmth of “AI +” and allowing different civilizations to blend and shine in the digital age.

Talent Development

Talent is fundamental to development, and talent cultivation is essential for the sustained empowerment of “AI +”. The initiative emphasizes building independent innovation capabilities in partner countries through technology open-source and joint training. China adheres to an open and inclusive philosophy, not only exporting technology but also sharing experiences. By the end of 2025, China’s effective domestic invention patents will reach 5.32 million, with AI patents ranking among the world’s top, accounting for 60% of the global total, maintaining the world’s leading position. Related technologies are shared with the world through open-source communities and joint research and development, significantly lowering the technological threshold for developing countries. Mechanism guarantees include the resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building proposed by China in 2024, which was unanimously adopted by the 78th United Nations General Assembly. China has led multiple AI capacity-building seminars, inviting representatives from various countries to engage in in-depth discussions on AI development, governance, and applications, effectively implementing the UN General Assembly resolution. Through local training and joint education, China assists partner countries in cultivating AI talent, bridging the “last mile” of technology application, and supporting countries in transitioning from technology input to independent innovation. Since 2026, China has further opened special AI capacity-building training courses for ASEAN, Central Asia, and Arab countries, promoting relevant cooperation from global inclusivity to regional deepening.

Conclusion

Intelligence knows no boundaries, and win-win cooperation is the way forward. China’s “AI + International Cooperation Initiative” is a complete framework encompassing concepts, mechanisms, and practices. From computing hubs to industrial collaboration, from empowering livelihoods to cultural exchange, from technological innovation to talent cultivation, “AI +” is breaking barriers with an open and inclusive approach, destined to become a powerful engine for gathering international cooperation forces and promoting global common development, ensuring that the benefits of intelligence reach every country and its people, and composing a new chapter of shared destiny and prosperity in the digital age.