Yin Yong, Deputy Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee and Mayor: Beijing will accelerate the construction of a global influential artificial intelligence innovation source and industrial highland.

On the 6th, Yin Yong, Deputy Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, stated at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Smart Source Conference that Beijing will adhere to the equal importance of innovation and application to accelerate the construction of a globally influential hub and industrial center for artificial intelligence innovation. "Beijing is the city with the richest artificial intelligence innovation resources in China, with 21 national key laboratories and more than 40% of the country's top talents," Yin Yong said. He introduced that by 2024, the number of core artificial intelligence enterprises in Beijing has exceeded 2,400, with the core industry scale approaching 350 billion yuan, both accounting for half of the country. Yin Yong also stated that Beijing will continue to attract top talents, implement more vigorous and longer-term support policies, promote innovative models such as the integration of production, teaching, and research in Zhongguancun colleges, and cultivate young compound talents. It will also continue to strengthen technological innovation, explore new paths for the development of AI for Science, general artificial intelligence, and accelerate the cultivation of revolutionary technologies such as neuromorphic intelligence. Beijing will also continue to promote vertical applications in the fields of education, medical care, finance, and other areas, introduce a number of benchmark application projects, and fully promote the empowerment of artificial intelligence in various industries. Furthermore, it will continue to promote open innovation, support enterprises in continuously opening source model architectures, build open general data sets, and create a global hub for open source sharing.