The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council: Implement the "AI+"专项行动 for central enterprises in depth, tailor measures to each enterprise, and accelerate the development of a number of emerging pillar industries.

People’s Financial News, March 17 — On March 16, the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission held an expanded meeting. The meeting emphasized the need to strengthen guidance for central enterprises to continue serving as stabilizers and ballast for the national economy, to keenly grasp changing circumstances, to scientifically and reasonably set operational goals, to strive to expand development space, to focus on improving operational quality, and to concentrate on “dual重” and “dual新” initiatives. It called for proactive planning and implementation of major projects and landmark engineering, efforts to expand effective investment, tightening and solidifying main responsibilities, and firmly safeguarding the bottom line of preventing systemic risks.

It also stressed accelerating the cultivation and growth of new quality productivity in central enterprises, resolutely serving as the national team to promote high-level technological independence and self-reliance, and as the main force in building a modern industrial system. The focus should be on strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, increasing the proportion of basic research investment, leading open scenarios, accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into practical productivity, deeply implementing the central enterprise “AI+” special action, speeding up digital and intelligent transformation, and tailoring efforts to accelerate the development of a batch of emerging pillar industries.