{"id":8884,"date":"2026-04-02T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:05:48","slug":"china-to-empower-traditional-industries-with-ai-in-more-balanced-way-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/china-to-empower-traditional-industries-with-ai-in-more-balanced-way-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"China to empower traditional industries with AI in more balanced way: expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>China to empower traditional industries with AI in more balanced way: expert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/xhnews-static.xinhuaxmt.com\/photo\/202604\/20260401195253_5680_w640_h480.jpg?x-oss-process=image\/resize,h_395,w_525\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">China to empower traditional industries with AI in more balanced way: expert<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Xinhua<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 2026-04-01 19:31:56<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updated: 2026-04-01 19:50:24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) &#8212; China will step up efforts to empower traditional industries with artificial intelligence (AI) across all sectors and assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their digital transformation, an expert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhang Xiaoyan, deputy director of the China Center for Information Industry Development, made the remarks during the latest episode of China Economic Roundtable, an all-media talk show hosted by Xinhua News Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI adoption in traditional manufacturing currently concentrates on front-end R&amp;D and back-end services and marketing, while the core production stage has yet to see full-chain and systematic breakthroughs, according to Zhang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also noted that while some leading companies have entered the &#8220;AI 2.0&#8221; stage, a vast number of SMEs still lag behind, held back by constraints in funding, talent and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhang called for strengthening AI technology supply by continuously improving the performance of general-purpose and industry-specific large models, and enhancing the availability of data and other key factors to lower the threshold for SMEs to adopt AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched an initiative in March to build high-quality industry datasets for AI empowerment, strengthen ecosystem development, and optimize the allocation of financial and talent resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of 2025, the number of AI-related enterprises in China had exceeded 6,200, with the core AI industry surpassing 1.2 trillion yuan (about 174 billion U.S. dollars), official data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China to empower traditional industries with AI in more balanced way: expert China to empower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}