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 has made significant strides, placing it among the world’s leaders. China maintains an open and inclusive stance, providing solid support for global AI collaborative development. From the green data centers operating day and night in the Guizhou mountains to precision agriculture projects in Mozambique utilizing “Beidou + drones,” and the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center bridging civilizations, practical cooperation scenes and vivid practices collectively depict a grand picture of the world empowered by “AI +.”

AI International Cooperation Initiative

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

The initiative prioritizes welfare, aiming to ensure AI technology benefits people in all countries, especially helping developing nations solve challenges. In Mozambique’s Gaza Province, the China-Mozambique agricultural cooperation project introduced China’s “Beidou + drones” precision agriculture technology. Agricultural drones are widely used for field mapping, rice planting, and pest control, covering over 80,000 acres, transforming low-yield fields into high-yield ones. Rice yields increased from about 150 kg to over 400 kg per acre, with some demonstration fields reaching 500 kg, and high-yield plots even exceeding 550 kg. In healthcare, AI-assisted diagnostic systems extend quality resources to remote areas, improving diagnostic accuracy through image recognition. In education, intelligent learning platforms break geographical barriers, allowing students in developing countries to share global quality resources, ensuring technology reaches every corner.

Technological Support

Behind the warmth of technology is solid scientific support. Technological progress is the core driving force of “AI +,” with related initiatives leading innovation paradigm shifts and promoting cross-field collaborative research. Currently, China ranks among the top tier globally in large model research and open-source development, with a well-established general large model and industry-specific model system, providing low-cost, inclusive model technology support to the world through open-source sharing. On this basis, China builds a solid foundation for global AI cooperation with model technology innovation and green computing power as dual pillars. By November 2025, the Guizhou green data center cluster achieved 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, pioneering carbon sink mutual recognition in computing power. Nationwide, by the end of 2025, China’s intelligent computing power scale reached 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 research, AI large models deeply empower cutting-edge fields such as bio-manufacturing and quantum technology, assisting global researchers in sharing innovative results.

Empowering Global Development

AI’s empowerment of global development profoundly reshapes industrial and supply chains. The initiative advocates for AI to drive industrial upgrades and cultivate new business formats, stabilizing global industrial and supply chains. China’s “computing power supply + R&D application” linkage has shown significant results: Beijing Haidian focuses on AI R&D and achievement 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 parsed by AI in milliseconds, precisely 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 the efficient circulation of over a million industrial drawings, helping various enterprises smoothly integrate into the global industrial division of labor. In Russia’s Far East, AI smart agricultural machinery significantly enhances agricultural production efficiency; 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

Civilizations become colorful through exchange, and “AI +” is becoming a digital bridge for cultural mutual learning. Cultural prosperity is an important dimension of global civilization initiatives, centered on promoting mutual understanding through AI. The cooperation between China and Malaysia serves as a model. Chinese tech companies collaborate with local firms to build the ASEAN AI multilingual translation center, supporting translation in over 130 languages and enabling rapid translation of film and television content within 30 minutes. Additionally, in the 2025 Belt and Road and BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition, over a hundred teams from multiple countries compete in AI-enabled instructional design. The concurrently launched “Global South AI Workshop” establishes a new platform for deepening “AI + vocational education” cooperation among countries. The application of AI in digital cultural tourism and cultural heritage protection 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 open-source technology and joint training. China adheres to an open and inclusive philosophy, not only exporting technology but also sharing experiences. By the end of 2025, the effective number of domestic invention patents in China reached 5.32 million, with AI patents ranking among the world’s highest, accounting for 60% of the global total, maintaining the world’s top position. Related technologies are shared with the world through open-source communities and joint R&D, significantly lowering the technological threshold for developing countries. Mechanism-wise, the resolution proposed by China to strengthen international cooperation in AI capacity building was unanimously adopted at the 78th United Nations General Assembly. China has led multiple AI capacity-building seminars, inviting representatives from various countries to engage in in-depth exchanges on AI development, governance, and application, 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. Starting in 2026, China will further open special AI capacity-building training courses for ASEAN, Central Asian, and Arab countries, promoting relevant cooperation from global inclusiveness to regional deepening.

Conclusion

Intelligence knows no boundaries, and win-win cooperation is the path forward. China’s “AI + International Cooperation Initiative” is a comprehensive framework encompassing concepts, mechanisms, and practices. From computing power hubs to industrial collaboration, from welfare empowerment to cultural mutual learning, from technological innovation to talent cultivation, “AI +” is breaking barriers with an open and inclusive posture, destined to become a powerful engine for consolidating international cooperation 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.