Changsha AI push accelerates manufacturing-led industrial upgrade

Summary

Changsha has unveiled a five-year strategy that makes “two-way empowerment” between artificial intelligence and manufacturing the core path for its next phase of industrialization, according to a detailed briefing from the city’s industry and IT bureau. The plan calls for deploying AI across full manufacturing value chains, from unmanned construction equipment and smart R&D platforms to L4 autonomous shuttles and logistics vehicles, and for building 100 exemplar AI application scenarios and 25 industry-specific large models. Officials aim to cultivate a roster of AI “specialized and innovative” firms and unicorns, achieve intelligent transformation across all sizable industrial enterprises, and lift local compute capacity to 5 EFLOPS by 2030 while building open-source communities around AI chips and software. At the same time, Changsha is emphasizing AI safety governance, including monitoring, risk warning and ethical oversight mechanisms, underlining how Chinese cities are now treating AI infrastructure, models and regulation as a single strategic package rather than separate tracks.([chinanews.com.cn](https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2025/12-16/10534157.shtml))