China's record here is industrial and municipal — 56 self-driving trucks in one coal mine, grassroots service tools in Jiangsu, Beijing and Shanghai — under the State Council's 'AI Plus' target of 70% adoption by 2027.
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Services 57.7% · Industry 35.6% · Agriculture 6.7% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025
Local governments in Jiangsu, Beijing and Shanghai have rolled out grassroots AI service tools, and the Ministry of Public Security runs a national anti-fraud app.
China9 Oct 2026Chongqing Municipal Medical Security Bureau — Chongqing Municipal Medical Security Bureau in China has opened Yu Xiaobao (渝小保), a medical insurance AI agent co-developed with Ant Afu on a medical large model. Typed into the Ant Afu app, the name summons a public AI assistant for policy Q&A, records, reports, medication and cover planning.
China25 Sep 2026Shenzhen courts — Shenzhen's courts used their AI-assisted trial system for 35.451 million large-model and agent tasks by 31 August 2026, covering 609,000 file reviews, 269,000 hearings, 678,000 drafted documents and more than 700,000 cases in all. The white paper presented at the China International Forum on the Rule of Law also credits the court AI with 48% fewer appeals and 65% fewer judgments amended or returned for retrial. Nobody outside the courts has checked these numbers.
China14 Sep 2026National Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee (TC260) — The National Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee issued the AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 as the 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Week opened. In this China AI regulation update, risk categories are re-sorted and safeguards refreshed within the classify-respond-govern structure. AI safety rulebook versions 1.0 and 2.0 date from 2024 and 2025.
China7 Sep 2026Supreme People's Court — The Supreme People's Court issued judicial guidelines for AI-related disputes, holding that recognisable digital replicas of a person — cloned faces and cloned voices included — may not be made or distributed without that person's consent. The guidance also reaches algorithmic price discrimination and AI-generated false information, and leaves service providers liable where they fail to act promptly after notice that their systems produced infringing content. Someone whose face has been altered and used to spread false and defamatory sexual claims now has a route to court; the court's vice-president, Tao Kaiyuan, cast this China AI regulation as seeking to balance development and security, with room left to clarify questions on which consensus is still thin.
China7 Sep 2026Supreme People's Court — Beijing's top court has moved to govern AI disputes adjudication with new rules from the Supreme People's Court: the Opinions on Lawfully Adjudicating Cases Involving AI Disputes (Fa Fa [2026] No. 10), China's first nationwide judicial guidance on such matters. Its 24 articles set tort standards for deepfake harms like face-swapping and voice cloning, define intellectual property protections for machine-generated works, and fix evidentiary benchmarks. Criminal penalties are also spelled out for AI-enabled offences, including fraud and defamation, closing gaps in AI-related litigation.
China6 Sep 2026Ministry of Public Security — China's Ministry of Public Security has launched national anti-fraud AI, an AI anti-fraud app helping the public spot telecom and online scams, built independently by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau under its criminal investigation bureau. Users describe a suspicious situation and the app rates the risk, names the probable fraud tactic, gives prevention advice and points to similar cases, using AI agent technologies, multimodal models and large language models.
China25 Aug 2026Local governments (Jiangsu, Beijing, Shanghai) — Local governments across China have deployed grassroots AI tools: in Suqian, Jiangsu, community-group AI assistants answer social security and school enrolment questions and route feedback. In Beijing's Miyun district an official used AI-assisted coding to build a flood-control monitoring app, and a Shanghai subdistrict launched a community-service agent with voice Q&A and public-service maps. No adoption figures were given.
China20 Aug 2026Shanghai Municipality — Shanghai switched on 100 AI-powered tourist service terminals across the city, each fronted by an AI agent named Hu Xiaoyou that handles navigation, real-time translation, attraction recommendations, ticket booking and made-to-order itineraries. The AI tourist service terminals draw on more than 84,000 entries covering cultural activities, attractions and sports events, carry 14,000 booking and shopping links, work in ten languages — Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Thai, Russian and Arabic — and take payment in more than 120 currencies. Machines stand in major hotels, tourism information centres, event venues, business districts and scenic spots, and volunteers will also be stationed with the AI visitor assistant to help visitors with additional needs.
China22 Jun 2026Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Data Administration — China's four ministries have ordered nationwide rollout of AI in human resources and social security services under the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating AI Plus Human Resources and Social Security Application Development (Ren She Bu Fa [2026] No. 40), covering employment support, insurance administration, talent development, labour relations and HR functions. Officials in these fields must gain digital and AI-driven HR and social security services competencies, with staged benchmarks set for 2027 and 2030.
China10 Apr 2026National Internet Information Office, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security, State Administration for Market Regulation — China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) leads four ministries behind Order No. 21, curbing AI companion apps that imitate human personality and speech for extended emotional bonding. Minors cannot get virtual intimate relationship features, platforms above 1 million registered users face mandatory safety review, and a regulatory sandbox now applies under the Interim Measures for the Management of AI Personified Interactive Services. Force began 15 July 2026.
China1 Apr 2026Supreme People's Court — The Supreme People's Court is piloting a nationwide AI-assisted trial system, modelled on Shenzhen's, in 23 intermediate and basic-level courts across 11 provinces, regions and municipalities, President Zhang Jun told the National People's Congress. The Shenzhen tool supports judges from filing to judgment drafting, and Shenzhen's judges each closed 744 cases in 2025, 249 more than a year before.
China6 Feb 2026National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission — Nationwide AI in public procurement bidding is now compulsory under Implementation Opinions on Accelerating AI Application in the Bidding Sector (Fa Gai Fa Gui [2026] No. 195), issued jointly by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and eight other agencies. Mandated functions span the whole tender process: screening bid documents for compliance, machine-assisted evaluation, spotting bid-rigging, joint supervision and handling complaints. Officials set 2026 and 2027 as milestone years for rolling these AI-driven procurement scenarios out everywhere.
China28 Oct 2025National People's Congress — China's Cybersecurity Law now includes a dedicated artificial intelligence clause, folding AI regulation into national security legislation for the first time rather than standalone rules. The NPC Standing Committee approved the change, effective 1 January 2026, favouring AI governance woven into existing legal structures sector by sector over one master statute.
China11 Oct 2025Cyberspace Administration of China and National Development and Reform Commission — Chinese government AI policy now pushes large AI models across ministries, via joint rules from the Cyberspace Administration and National Development and Reform Commission. Scenario-based adoption covers citizen services, governance and decision support, provinces leading and prefecture cities following. A ban on feeding state secrets into non-classified systems pairs with warnings against hollow 'digital formalism', echoing wider AI in public administration goals.
China2025-09Zhanjiang Municipal Bureau of Justice — Zhanjiang Municipal Bureau of Justice has introduced AI in judicial administration through "Kunpeng Matrix" (鲲鹏矩阵), unveiled on 28 September 2025 as China's inaugural vertical large-model system devoted to this sector, achieving a 99% success rate at pinpointing case focus within its administrative reconsideration component. Powered by domestic AI foundations including Tongyi Qianwen, more than 80 agents now perform tasks ranging across legal aid, legislative drafting, public legal education and community correction, all folded into one platform. The public reaches this system via a companion channel named "Kunpeng Smart Answer", delivering round-the-clock AI legal assistance that has already fielded upwards of 2.6万人次 (26,000) queries — a bureau-reported figure lacking independent verification.
China26 Aug 2025State Council — The State Council Opinions on Deeply Implementing the AI+ Action (Guo Fa [2025] No. 11) set phased targets to 2027, 2030 and 2035 for China AI policy. This national AI strategy spans six priority areas: global cooperation, governance capacity, public welfare, consumption quality, industrial development and scientific research.
China30 May 2025Shenzhen Longhua District People's Court — Shenzhen Longhua District People's Court runs Dragon Vine ('龙藤'), China's first end-to-end court enforcement AI system across 54 nodes — filing, property control, credit sanctions, asset tracing — via 21 linked platforms. Piloted from December 2024, the judicial enforcement AI application cleared 7,847 cases unaided, cutting average duration 28.9 days, January–April 2025.
China2025-04Anhui Provincial People's Procuratorate — Anhui Provincial People's Procuratorate is piloting an AI-assisted case handling system across all 79 procuratorates, China's first provincial-scale prosecutorial AI rollout. Ten functions are covered, including document review, drafting, sentencing recommendations and contradiction detection, reflecting wider momentum behind AI in criminal justice. Human sign-off remains mandatory at each of 21 checkpoints.
China26 Feb 2025Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court — Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court now hosts China's first government deployment of an AI legal document generation system, running DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B on a private cloud built with Guangzhou Data Group. Branded the 'Court DeepSeek Application Experience Centre', it gives judges instant statute lookup and drafting help through AI-assisted judicial drafting, entirely local so case files stay off outside servers.
China2025-01Beijing High People's Court — Judges' contact requests, case-status enquiries and litigation consultations totalled 91,293 across two months on Beijing High People's Court's new "数智北法" (Digital Intelligence Beijing Law) platform, launched to test AI in judicial administration through 12 approved scenarios. The 12368 litigation service AI robot fielded 45,249 judge-contact queries and 34,265 case checks, while 11,779 people sought legal guidance through the same channel. Separate tools built into the rollout provide automated oversight of trials and back court rulings with algorithmic recommendations for court rulings.
Insilico's Rentosertib is the first fully AI-designed drug to reach Phase III.
China23 Oct 2026Changde First People's Hospital — Changde First People's Hospital in Hunan runs a Varian Ethos 2.0 unit for AI adaptive radiotherapy, first in central China and third nationwide. Software auto-contours, plans and recalibrates for each day's tumour geometry, so a session of this AI-driven cancer treatment planning takes just over ten minutes.
China9 Sep 2026Insilico Medicine — Insilico Medicine's rentosertib, whose target and molecule both came from generative AI and which reported a Phase 2a trial in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (Nature Medicine, June 2025), has started its Phase III trial. The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (NCT07687459), registered in July 2026, enrolled its first patient on 9 September and aims to enrol 320 patients over 52 weeks.
China6 Sep 2026Chinese PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital) — The Senior Department of Cardiology at the Sixth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, better known as 301 Hospital, completed a transcatheter closure for congenital heart disease on a 48-year-old man with an AI-powered ultrasound robot at the probe. The robot carried out image acquisition, lesion localisation and real-time navigation on its own through the procedure, and the team leaned on it to choose the occluder and place it accurately. The hospital calls this a first for AI in interventional cardiology, resting that on a search it attributes to an authoritative institution.
China28 Sep 2025Tianjin Medical University General Hospital — Nearly 100% analysis accuracy and 49.3% faster reports: that's the claim behind an AI in hospital diagnostics tool from China Mobile Tianjin and Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, built on DeepSeek-V3. Deployed at the check-up centre, this medical health management large model drafts health check reports automatically, aids clinical decisions and reads patient records and scans. The developers, not an independent auditor, supplied these figures.
China28 Aug 2025Peking University Shenzhen Hospital — An example of AI in hospital patient services: Beidafu, a virtual assistant at Peking University Shenzhen Hospital running on Ant Group's Bailing medical LLM. This hospital patient AI assistant guides patients through 27 checkpoints from arrival to result collection, pushing alerts on what comes next instead of waiting to be asked, ending the hospital's old passive setup.
China26 Apr 2025Tsinghua University — China now has an AI hospital run entirely by artificial intelligence: Tsinghua University's AI Agent Hospital fields 42 AI doctors spanning 21 departments and diagnosing over 300 conditions. An internal trial platform, active since November 2024, reached 93.06% accuracy on respiratory illness after processing roughly ten thousand simulated patients, giving clinicians a working AI clinical diagnosis benchmark. Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital will host the initial rollout.
China28 Mar 2025Guang'anmen Hospital — A TCM AI diagnosis model, Guangyi-Qizhi, has gone live at Guang'anmen Hospital in Beijing, built jointly with Baidu Intelligent Cloud and Quanzhen Medical. It reads multimodal signals such as tongue and pulse data to draft records in 2-3 seconds, then guides physicians through syndrome differentiation, prescriptions and medication choices across the whole path from intake to discharge follow-up, serving as an AI-assisted traditional Chinese medicine documentation system.
China19 Mar 2025West China Hospital of Sichuan University — Sichuan University's West China Hospital has switched on Huaxi Hongyi, a 72-billion-parameter medical large language model now running across hospital departments for AI in healthcare applications, unveiled on 19 March 2025. Engineers fused over 10 general-purpose systems with more than 50 specialist ones, feeding the build with 1.1 million doctor-patient dialogue records, 1,600 clinical guidelines and 3.5PB of scanned imaging data. Among the clinical large language model's live jobs: sorting incoming patients, drafting medical records automatically, spotting early-stage cancers during endoscopy, backing up staff on shock-response calls, and staffing a health-outreach line that has logged over 1.2 million calls.
China25 Feb 2025Fujian University of TCM Affiliated People's Hospital — First in Fujian province: this hospital now runs DeepSeek R1 70B locally, linked into record-keeping and screening systems. The Affiliated People's Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine gives doctors an AI hospital deployment for analysing patient data and drafting diagnoses fast. Next, a TCM-specific decision support agent extends this clinical AI integration into traditional Chinese medicine.
China16 Feb 2025Peking Union Medical College Hospital — PUMCH-Taichu, a rare disease AI diagnosis model jointly built by Peking Union Medical College Hospital and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation, entered clinical use in China. Drawing on years of accumulated rare disease knowledge and genomic data specific to the Chinese population, and combining DeepSeek-R1 reasoning capabilities, the system is the first large model designed for this group. It supports faster, more precise identification of rare conditions and also lets patients hold initial consultations through multi-turn dialogue, offering AI-assisted rare disease identification directly to the public.
China2025-02Beijing Children's Hospital — Beijing Children's Hospital in China paired an AI paediatrician with 13 specialists to assess an eight-year-old boy. Baichuan Intelligence and Xiao'erfang Health Technology trained it on records from over 300 paediatric experts before a month-long internal trial preceded this AI in paediatrics rollout. Diagnostic accuracy beyond that trial remains unconfirmed.
The financial regulator has classed credit-approval AI as high risk for banks, against a tracking report finding 53.5% of Chinese banks now use large models.
China19 Oct 2026Industrial and Commercial Bank of China — Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) operates hundreds of AI models in banking across business lines, president Liu Jun told the 2026 Bund Summit. Data-rich units grant the systems wider latitude, client-facing teams keep humans deciding, and high-stakes pricing involves staff from day one of the bank-wide AI deployment.
China18 Jun 2026National Financial Regulatory Administration — China's National Financial Regulatory Administration issued guiding opinions on 18 June 2026 on AI regulation in banking and insurance, with four principles including that users of an AI system are responsible for it. Institutions must grade AI uses by risk and route high-risk ones through approval; anything touching risk management, underwriting and claims, credit approval, asset valuation, fund transactions or generative AI directly shaping whether a financial contract is agreed counts as high-risk AI. Those need risk-committee sign-off, human oversight at critical points and reporting to the regulator.
China17 Apr 2026Shaqiu Think Tank — Shaqiu Think Tank's tracking report finds 53.5% of Chinese banks, more than half, now using large models in banking, with the sector shifting from tool-level uses to system-level rebuilding of processes. The report does not give its survey base.
China11 Aug 2025ZhongBang Bank — ZhongBang Bank, an internet transaction lender in Wuhan, now uses an AI smart marketing assistant powered by large language models to serve WeCom customer engagement. Chats are parsed automatically, matched to intent, and answered with recommended knowledge and rewritten replies, cutting labour costs by 25% while raising response speed 20% and operational efficiency nearly 30%, the bank said, having shown it at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in July.
China8 Mar 2025Industrial and Commercial Bank of China — A dedicated thousand-card computing cloud drives Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's rollout of DeepSeek's newest open-source model, folded privately into its "ICBC Intelligent Surge" (工银智涌) system — a first for major Chinese lenders. AI banking deployment spans 200-plus scenarios across 20 business lines. Ten-plus large language model banking tools alongside 2,000 legacy models back this expansion.
China19 Feb 2025Ping An Life Insurance — Ping An Life has rolled out AI insurance claims processing alongside a tailored DeepSeek-R1 model spanning three business functions: AskBob, a sales-support tool for agents; a training system for staff; and an automated engine for handling complex claims cases. Engineers built the customisation in just seven days, from raw data processing through to production release. More than 90% of agents judged the revamped AskBob better than its predecessor on completeness, accuracy and practicality, while the claims engine, now embedded in the core system, lifted accuracy on complicated cases by 31% versus the earlier version — an early signal of how automated claims review can scale inside a large insurer.
China17 Feb 2025PICC Property and Casualty — PICC Property and Casualty leads Chinese insurers in adopting AI in claims processing, running DeepSeek's full-size model on home-grown hardware. DeepSeek now sits in the firm's model base, auto-checking claims quality, pulling facts from paperwork and sharpening staff training. Underwriting, claims and investment uses are still developing, pointing toward wider claims automation powered by AI.
China2025-02China Construction Bank — China Construction Bank has built DeepSeek-R1 into its own systems, adapted since February 2025 using internal records. AI in banking spans half the workforce over 46 divisions and beyond 200 jobs: scoring risk, converting payments, writing summaries, checking code. Review time per client dropped from 30 minutes to five under this model effort.
CHN Energy runs 56 self-driving trucks at a coal mine, and offline AI monitors remote coalbed methane drilling in Shanxi.
China23 Sep 2026Swire Coca-Cola — Swire Coca-Cola uses SAI, an AI order picking and sorting system, on live mixed-product orders in its Zhengzhou plant in Henan province. Each robot moves 600 cases hourly at close to 100 per cent accuracy, sparing frontline workers heavy lifts as staff learn robotics maintenance. Robotic picking reaches Nanjing, Hefei and Guangzhou next year.
China11 Sep 2026Ministry of Natural Resources — The Ministry of Natural Resources released two AI mineral exploration and mapping systems, AI-OreSeeking and AI-GeoMapping, at the 28th China Mining Conference and Exhibition in Tianjin. AI-OreSeeking automates the prospecting workflow end to end and has been trialled in more than 100 projects across over ten provincial-level regions; test data from it indicate that mineral prediction and evaluation once taking half a year can now be finished in one week. AI-GeoMapping runs from preliminary research to map compilation, identifies geological bodies with accuracy above 90 per cent and lifts processing efficiency by more than 50 per cent against traditional methods, and has been tested across nearly 100 map sheets at 1:50,000 in Qinghai, Xizang, Xinjiang and Fujian among other regions; the AI geological mapping system is also being promoted and applied in countries such as Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Laos.
China2 Sep 2026Shandong Coalfield Geological Bureau — The Third Exploration Team of the Shandong Coalfield Geologic Bureau and partners deployed edge AI safety monitoring at four remote coalbed methane drilling projects in the Qinshui Basin, in Shanxi. It analyses video and behaviour data on site instead of the cloud, with real-time voice alerts where connectivity is weak. The team cites emergency response cut from hours to minutes, 80% better hazard-inspection efficiency and about 25 drilling hours saved on one project; none is independently evaluated.
China13 Aug 2026CHN Energy — CHN Energy runs 56 autonomous mining trucks among about 500 manned vehicles in shared traffic at the company's open-pit coal mine in China's north-west, coordinated by CiDi's MetaMine system. CiDi says its self-driving haulage system MetaMine had reached nearly 40 mines worldwide by mid-2026.
China28 Sep 2025Xingfa Group — A single control unit now runs autonomous chemical production at Xingfa Group's chlor-alkali site in Hubei, built by Supcon under the label industrial embodied AI. Rather than relying on separate control cabinets, the plant assigns everything to what it calls its 81st digital employee — software combining Supcon's TPT time-series large model with the firm's UCS platform to monitor over 15,000 data points and act on them without human input. Results so far include caustic soda held steady between 32 and 32.1% concentration, plus valve-fault diagnosis accuracy topping 95%, an early sign of embodied AI reaching chemical manufacturing.
China2 Sep 2025Midea Group — China's Midea Group earned WRCA recognition for its Jingzhou washing machine plant, the first multi-scenario AI agent factory manufacturing site anywhere, a benchmark for AI in industrial production. A unifying brain pairs large models with embodied robotics, directing 14 agents across 38 core production scenarios there. Hours of hands-on labour now finish in seconds, lifting average efficiency beyond 80% and scheduling responsiveness by 90%.
China6 Aug 2025Sinopec Shengli Oilfield — 40 subsidiaries of Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield now share China's first large-scale AI in oil and gas system, the Sheng Xiaoli large language model. By August 2025, 1.8万 accounts had signed up, sending 2,000-plus daily queries for document analysis, data retrieval and report drafting. A DeepSeek-R1 upgrade brought 280 assistants and 1,000-plus knowledge bases into this petroleum-sector generative AI platform.
China17 Sep 2025Peking University — Guanghua School of Management and Peking University's Computing Centre built "Doujiao," an AI teaching assistant for humanities and social-science instruction: knowledge-base assembly, outline and PPT drafting, live quiz interaction, and natural-language lookup in the school's case library. Staff compile reference sets, sketch lecture materials, run polling, and pull cases without formal query syntax. The rollout marks a first push into generative tools for liberal-arts subjects, distinct from science and engineering AI in higher education uses.
China2025-09Beijing Municipal Education Commission — China's Beijing municipal government now leads the nation as the first provincial-level region requiring universal AI general education, with artificial intelligence classes launched across every one of the 1,400-plus primary and secondary schools, reaching 1.83 million pupils. Under a graduated approach, younger children get hands-on experience-based learning, middle schoolers pursue cognitive exploration, and senior students apply skills through comprehensive practice, with a floor of eight class hours set each academic year. Officials support delivery through 160 curriculum resource packages, training for 130 lead teachers, and a scheme linking urban schools with rural counterparts to widen access to AI courses in schools.
China6 Aug 2025Harbin Institute of Technology — HIT's Faculty of Computing engineered 'Gong Xiaoxing,' a 24-hour AI counsellor for students at Harbin Institute of Technology, fusing empathetic dialogue with tiered logic: menus for routine questions, warm replies for distress, retrieval-augmented generation for thorny procedures — delivering AI mental health support in higher education. Over 2,000 students and counsellors shaped it, covering study advice, admin queries, and stress relief.
China4 Jul 2025Shandong Jianzhu University — Shandong Jianzhu University is now Shandong province's first with a full-stack AI education platform, unveiling Zhisiti, an education large language model (LLM) spanning 70-plus subjects. Assistants field queries non-stop across 24 hours, generate lesson plans automatically, break down multi-modal lectures and flag pupil conduct.
China12 Sep 2025China Logistics — China Logistics has deployed Liuyun, a 2780-billion-parameter model built with China Telecom, China Mobile, iFlytek and Huawei, in an AI deployment in logistics spanning 40-plus scenarios covering transport, warehousing, supply chains and rail equipment. Company figures credit its multimodal transport engine with lifting customer adoption 9%, boosting order matching 10% and trimming average shipping costs by 5%. National generative AI service registration was granted 2 July 2025, ahead of the model's public unveiling. An AI-powered logistics platform of this scale now sits among China's largest state-backed applications.
China27 Mar 2025Ningbo Zhoushan Port Meishan Port Area — Ningbo Zhoushan Port's Meishan gates now run AI vision container terminal checks, matching plates, container numbers and seal numbers in one camera pass. Staffing fell from four to one per gate, with trucks cleared in under a minute. Automated recognition is replacing manual inspection across the port's logistics.
China2025-03Shuohuang Railway (CHN Energy) — Huanghuagang station now runs China's first intelligent shunting system, an automated freight rail shunting deployment by CHN Energy subsidiary Shuohuang Railway. Trains set routes, drive themselves and take remote commands instead of outdoor crews, combining AI, 5G and Beidou positioning. Danger levels fell 90%, adding roughly 10.56 million tonnes of yearly capacity.
China23 Oct 2026General Office of the State Council — China's State Council General Office has published an Opinion listing 18 main tasks in six areas, a national blueprint for AI and employment policy. The document covers curbing AI-driven displacement, risk assessment, skills courses, AI-supported job services, protections for human-machine collaboration and early warnings, together forming labour-market safeguards for AI.
China2025-04JD.com — More than 100,000 Chinese job seekers have used JD.com's AI interview agent recruitment tool, built on its JoyAI large model, to screen for entry-level logistics and support roles. The e-commerce firm says the system now handles tens of thousands of first-round conversations daily, recognising over 20 regional dialects while flagging impersonation through digital-human hosts with layered verification checks — an AI-driven hiring screening approach. JD.com credits this with lifting hiring speed by 70% and scoring 91% accuracy, though these are the company's own unaudited figures.
China18 Mar 2025Guangdong Baocheng (Futian) Law Firm — Guangdong Baocheng (Futian) Law Firm has deployed Fa Xiao Qi for AI contract review, case analysis and document drafting, built on DeepSeek's large model as a legal AI assistant. Drawing on over 1 million case records, it boosts clause-comparison accuracy by 80% and drafts compliant contracts instantly, underpinned by a specialised legal model and knowledge base.
China14 Mar 2025Beijing Dacheng (Kunming) Law Firm — AI in legal practice has moved on-premises at Beijing Dacheng (Kunming) Law Firm, which installed DeepSeek-R1-671B, DeepSeek-V3-671B, QwQ-32b and GLM4-9b on its own servers rather than the cloud in March 2025. Contract review, legal research and drafting tasks get routed automatically to whichever model fits best, with KIMI and Tongyi Qianwen brought in alongside the locally hosted systems for added coverage. Housing everything on Uptime Tier III certified infrastructure keeps client information private and under domestic control, a priority driving broader adoption of AI in law firms wary of external hosting.
China16 Sep 2025Juewei Food — Juewei Food's AI marketing agent for retail: 3.1x sales, 1.8x click-through, 2.4x payment conversion, 47% fewer WeCom friend deletions — tested on millions of shoppers versus human teams. China's largest braised snack chain built this full-chain AI marketing automation with Tencent Smart Retail on Hunyuan and DeepSeek dual-model architecture, spanning strategy through execution. Juewei's own trial figures, unverified externally.
China11 Apr 2025Suning — Suning Max stores in Zhengzhou and Beijing now run an AI store assistant and digital human guide on Lingsi, the retailer's own large model, fused with DeepSeek. Keyword lookups return product details in under a second, closing queries in a minute instead of four hours, with accuracy up from 80% to beyond 98%. The avatar adds tailored suggestions and live deals, an early retail AI deployment gain.
China28 Sep 2025MyBank and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs — MyBank (网商银行) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' Information Centre put China's first AI farming assistant into service in 2025. It gives 24-hour agronomy, weather and finance support for over 200 crop and livestock types via MyBank丰收卡, grounded in regional soil and climate records from the Ministry. Tricky questions get routed to this AI agriculture advisory system's pool of over 1,000 verified specialists.
China16 Sep 2026Hubei Provincial Museum — Hubei Provincial Museum made ByteDance's Doubao its official AI museum guide, speaking 12 Chinese dialects including Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Hakka and Wuhan. Visitors press a guide button, aim a phone at an object and get a tailored explanation. The virtual docent answers follow-ups by video call.
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