# China's Eight Departments Set AI Plan for Industrial Foundation Innovation By Riza Dagoc Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/regulation/37942 Published: 2026-10-22T14:13:01.000Z Updated: 2026-10-22T14:13:01.000Z Section: Regulation > The plan calls for general-purpose and industry-specific models, with AI deployment spanning development, design, pilot-scale validation and production. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and seven other departments issued a plan to use artificial intelligence to support innovation in industrial foundations. The plan calls for expanding development of general-purpose large models and models tailored to industrial fields. It also calls for integrating industrial mechanism models with intelligent-agent decision models. Separately, it backs intelligent-native foundational products and seeks to cultivate service formats such as model-as-a-service and agent-as-a-service. The plan calls for AI deployment across product development, design simulation, pilot-scale validation and production operations. It says wider use should improve process management, analysis and forecasting, and decision execution, accelerating iteration in industrial foundation innovation. A separate [China AI and manufacturing plan]() set 2027 targets for embedding general-purpose models in manufacturing and developing industrial agents and datasets. ## Links in this article - [China AI and manufacturing plan](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/34031)