{
  "id": 9259732,
  "title": "China’s Premier Li Qiang calls for harnessing AI to propel manufacturing advances",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/chinas-premier-li-qiang-calls-for-harnessing-ai-to-propel",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-23T03:30:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Tech",
    "slug": "scmp-tech",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368455/chinas-premier-li-qiang-calls-harnessing-ai-propel-manufacturing-advances"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Premier Li Qiang emphasized the need to integrate artificial intelligence with manufacturing during his visit to Shanghai, as China aims to bolster advanced manufacturing amid heightened global technology competition (1). He advocated for leveraging China's manufacturing expertise alongside digital technologies (2). Li proposed establishing more service platforms for manufacturing, encompassing aspects like design, testing, and maintenance, to facilitate more efficient and cost-effective upgrades for companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (3). His remarks followed President Xi Jinping's directive last week to bolster China's supply chains, enhance self-sufficiency, and fast-track the growth of a modern industrial system built on advanced manufacturing (4). At an incubator for emerging industries in Shanghai, Li painted future industries as a \"potential blue ocean\" for manufacturing advancements, urging the nation to make breakthroughs in core technologies and bolster basic research foundations (5). To spur the development of these sectors, Li stressed increasing venture capital investment, cultivating a \"patient capital\" pool, and establishing risk-sharing mechanisms, acknowledging the long development timelines and market uncertainties inherent in these industries (6). He underscored talent as a key resource, urging intensified efforts to attract and nurture talent via research institutions, innovation hubs, companies, and technology initiatives, while exploring novel methods to identify top innovators (7). On the same day, Li met with executives from the international charity WorldSkills, who were in China for the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai (8). Li reiterated China's commitment to enhancing skilled workers' training, evaluation, and incentive systems, as well as sharing its expertise and resources with other nations to promote skills development benefits through competitions, education, research, poverty alleviation, and South-South cooperation (9).",
  "summary": "Chinese Premier Li Qiang called for deeper integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing during a visit to Shanghai, as Beijing seeks to expand advanced manufacturing and emerging industries amid intensifying global technology competition. “[We] should combine China’s strengths in manufacturing and digital technologies,” Li said during his visit to an AI application testing base in the…",
  "key_points": [
    "Premier Li Qiang calls for AI integration in manufacturing at Shanghai visit",
    "Proposes service platforms for design, testing, maintenance to boost efficiency",
    "Emphasizes need for venture capital, talent development in advanced manufacturing"
  ],
  "editors_take": "China's push to integrate AI with manufacturing signals a strategic bid to upgrade its industrial capabilities and gain an edge in global tech competition, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}