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China’s Five-Year Plan details the targets for AI deployment

China just dropped its AI roadmap through 2030. The world's second-largest economy is betting big on artificial intelligence.

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China's 15th Five-Year Plan provides strategic insight into how the world's second-largest economy plans to deploy AI across industries through 2030, signaling major competitive implications for global AI leaders.

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  1. China's 15th Five-Year Plan covers priorities through 2030

  2. AI grouped with quantum computing, biotechnology, and energy as priority paths

  3. Plan covers economic, education, social, and industrial priorities

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Publisher excerpt: China has approved its 15th Five-Year Plan [PDF] setting out the country’s economic, education, social, and industrial priorities through to 2030. As might be expected, there is a significant number of references to AI, with the technology mentioned in several contexts. AI is grouped alongside…
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