The draft sets ambitious targets: by 2030, Anhui aims to rank among China’s top tier in humanoid robot output and place industrial robot production among the national leaders.
The move signals Ningbo’s ambition to transition from a manufacturing hub into a leader in high‑end marine industries, advanced maritime services, and ocean‑based innovation.
“Opportunities in this era are unprecedented, but those who fail to advance will fall behind,” Zhou, former provincial science and technology chief, said.
The evaluation places Hangzhou ahead of Ningbo and Wuhan, which ranked second and third respectively across the first batch of 30 cities selected under the program launched in 2023.
Zhejiang’s cross-border e-commerce exports reached 267.8 billion yuan ($39.58 billion) in 2025, up 24.9% from a year earlier and ranking second nationally behind Guangdong.
Authorities described the facility as a “super AI laboratory” for the sector, intended to shift AI applications from academic research into real-world use cases across tourism, museums and cultural production.
Through its “Qinghe Cloud Recruitment” initiative, the city organizes more than 800 global recruitment events online each year and offers around 1 million job opportunities.
The platform has begun pilot operations in Nanxing subdistrict, one of Shangcheng’s grayest communities, where residents aged over 60 account for 44.4% of the population.
Teaching will combine in-house interdisciplinary faculty with external mentors from Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and major technology companies.
Private-sector industrial firms remained the main engine of growth in the January-April period, with output rising 7.9% and contributing nearly 80% of total industrial expansion.
The moves come as Hangzhou intensifies efforts at the start of its “15th Five-Year Plan” period (2026-2030) to position itself as what officials call China’s “top city for AI innovation and development.”
Liu said the platform “cannot become a showcase that is built but unused,” calling for bolder experimentation and business models capable of generating sustainable revenue.
The plan lays out “1 overall goal, 8 key areas and 17 priority tasks,” targeting design, construction, management and service operations across the city’s built environment.
The rollout of the four new funds came on the heels of two smaller vehicles unveiled on May 15, sized at 1 billion yuan and 500 million yuan, respectively.
On the financial side, many Zhejiang exporters are primarily settling cross-border trade directly in yuan, circumventing dollar-denominated wire transfers.
By the end of 2025, the three funds had approved investments into 392 sub-funds and 4,614 projects, with total committed capital reaching 143.3 billion yuan.
Teams were required to guide self-developed underwater robots through a full sequence of search, positioning, retrieval and return tasks across the lake’s thousand-acre natural water area.
The launch comes as embodied AI startups face mounting bottlenecks around fragmented computing resources, limited access to training data and a lack of standardized testing environments.
This year’s competition focuses on industrial, service and special-use applications, with all tasks derived from practical pain points identified by leading companies rather than abstract benchmarks.
The sector aims to reach an annual output of 8 billion yuan by 2027, with 30 takeoff and landing sites, 40 drone routes, and low-altitude flight hours climbing from 5,000 to 75,000 annually.
The policy calls for public-sector buyers to prioritize new-energy and methanol-powered vehicles across public transit, sanitation, driving schools and postal delivery fleets.
Exports of mechanical and electrical products — Zhejiang’s largest export category — rose 5.9% to 661.8 billion yuan, accounting for 47.4% of total outbound shipments.
Local authorities said AI literacy courses now cover all grade levels across the city’s primary and secondary schools, with students receiving at least 10 class hours per academic year.
With the new policy, Ningbo hopes to gather over 10,000 AI “super-individuals” by 2028, strengthening the city’s footprint in the emerging solo-entrepreneur economy.
In the innovation sector, Zhejiang plunged 16.14 billion yuan into 211 science and technology foundation projects, with an investment completion rate of 38.47%.
During this year’s Lunar New Year holiday season, AI-produced dramas accounted for nearly 30% of short-drama views, according to industry estimates cited by organizers.
The initiative lays out 16 measures spanning corporate R&D, innovation platforms and commercialization, with a focus on making companies the main drivers of innovation.
About 90% of the projects fall under Zhejiang’s “415X” framework, which groups industries into four world-class sectors, 15 provincial clusters and a pipeline of emerging fields.
Drones had completed more than 1,000 flights carrying over 20,000 kilograms of cargo, while autonomous vehicles delivered more than 2 million parcels and logged over 310,000 kilometers.
Once fully completed, the plant is expected to generate more than 54 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually—enough to meet the needs of over 5 million people.
Teams are required to use Unitree Robotics’s Go2 robots to navigate the course, completing a sequence of movements, object transfers and identification tasks without failure.
Hangzhou has set a goal of becoming China’s leading AI hub, evolving from its roots as an e-commerce center into a broader deeptech powerhouse, with a focus on AI.
Hangzhou also aims to cultivate over 18,000 high-value patents through dedicated programs, but officials fell short of defining “high-value” at the conference.
Hangzhou’s push draws on its industrial base of nearly 7,500 large-scale manufacturers with annual main-business revenue of 20 million yuan ($2.93 million) and more.
The data comes as Hangzhou enters the first year of China’s 15th five-year planning cycle (2026-2030) and steps up its push toward becoming a 3 trillion-yuan economy.
The three-day event (April 22-24), themed around innovation and AI, will introduce a dedicated forum connecting unicorn companies with overseas listing channels, particularly in Hong Kong.
The city trails only Beijing in total computing capacity, according to industry data, reflecting the capital’s concentration of national-level data centers and research institutions.
The rollout comes as Hangzhou faces growing strain on public security resources. The city’s registered population has surged past 8.8 million, while vehicle ownership exceeded 5 million.
The timing comes as offshore listings, primarily on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), continue to play an important role in the expansion strategies of Chinese startups.
In recent years, the port has rolled out shore power systems across all terminals except liquid chemical berths and has expanded clean fuel bunkering services to support low-emission shipping.
The project has been designated both a national demonstration program for green and low-carbon technologies and a major industrial project in Zhejiang province.
A central focus is the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), particularly in neurorehabilitation. The policy calls for leveraging national AI pilot platforms to accelerate clinical deployment.
The blueprint, part of a broader “AI plus manufacturing” initiative, aims to build a coordinated innovation system spanning core technologies, product supply and service ecosystems.
The training program has been operational since 2023, designed to systematically build capacity for government officials and help them stay at the forefront of technological advancements.
Hangzhou has spent 18 years building its student entrepreneurship programs, rolling out six successive three-year initiatives that have helped nurture startups including robotics firm Unitree.
Zhejiang’s total marine output ranked fourth nationwide behind Guangdong, Shandong and Shanghai, accounting for 11.6% of China’s overall ocean economy.
At the same time, the province launched 5,325 technology-upgrade projects under a broader industrial modernization initiative, with planned investment totaling 694.3 billion yuan.
Provincial officials see OPCs as emblematic of a new economic unit emerging in the intelligent economy era, where AI amplifies individual productivity and lowers barriers to entrepreneurship.
The surge highlights how the 2015 merger of Ningbo and Zhoushan ports — once close competitors sharing the same waterways — has evolved into a complementary logistics powerhouse.
His comments align with heated discussions among policymakers and investors about nurturing long-term capital capable of accompanying tech companies through extended growth cycles.
Growth was increasingly driven by the city’s “three leading industries,” meaning integrated circuits, AI and biomedicine.
Anhui has also become a national leader in automotive production, with both combustion and electric vehicle output now ranking first in China.
Industrial output generated by firms with annual main-business revenue of 20 million yuan ($2.94 million) and more grew 5.0% year-on-year.
The two-day event transformed the central plaza of Hangzhou Children’s Park into an immersive open-air technology showcase.
Consumer spending showed signs of a shift toward higher-value technology products.
Part of the momentum has been supported by changes to China’s tariff classification system.
The rollout comes as authorities seek to curb unauthorized drone activity amid the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy.
Despite making up less than 4% of the country’s land area, the five regions contribute more than one-fifth of listed firms.
Provincial officials said insurance funds already deployed in the province had exceeded 500 billion yuan by 2025.
The draft sets ambitious targets: by 2030, Anhui aims to rank among China’s top tier in humanoid robot output and place industrial robot production among the national leaders.
Chinese productions accounted for more than 70% of total revenue, maintaining a dominant position in the global market.
Electromechanical goods accounted for more than 70% of exports, while high-tech products recorded the fastest growth.
Within the province, Suzhou continued to anchor external trade activity, recording 1.48 trillion yuan in imports and exports, up 37.5% year-on-year.
In May alone, exports to ASEAN reached 68.49 billion yuan, surpassing the European Union to become the province’s largest overseas market.
Officials described the initiative as a closed-loop model linking dormant assets, recovered funds and new productive investment.
The move signals Ningbo’s ambition to transition from a manufacturing hub into a leader in high‑end marine industries, advanced maritime services, and ocean‑based innovation.
The standard divides OPC capabilities into three broad categories — learners, builders and creators — and nine levels, from L1 to L9.
The park said it hosts 74 listed companies, with several of them having crossed the 100-billion-yuan market-cap level.
“Opportunities in this era are unprecedented, but those who fail to advance will fall behind,” Zhou, former provincial science and technology chief, said.
The evaluation places Hangzhou ahead of Ningbo and Wuhan, which ranked second and third respectively across the first batch of 30 cities selected under the program launched in 2023.
Zhejiang’s cross-border e-commerce exports reached 267.8 billion yuan ($39.58 billion) in 2025, up 24.9% from a year earlier and ranking second nationally behind Guangdong.
The platform now allows merchants to apply for labels such as “delivery-only,” “dine-in available” and “open kitchen.”
The initiative, launched in late 2025, forms the centerpiece of Hangzhou’s effort to build new industrial growth engines.
Authorities described the facility as a “super AI laboratory” for the sector, intended to shift AI applications from academic research into real-world use cases across tourism, museums and cultural production.
The facility fills a regional gap in testing capabilities for full robot systems and key components, authorities said.
The 13-point agreement covers pricing, merchant treatment, rider protections and platform governance.
Through its “Qinghe Cloud Recruitment” initiative, the city organizes more than 800 global recruitment events online each year and offers around 1 million job opportunities.
Selected companies span sectors including general AI, brain-inspired computing, synthetic biology, low-altitude aviation and frontier chip technologies.
The platform has begun pilot operations in Nanxing subdistrict, one of Shangcheng’s grayest communities, where residents aged over 60 account for 44.4% of the population.
The platform also automatically matches companies with eligible policy support programs, reducing paperwork and repeated applications.
Since 2018, the city has released annual reform packages to improve its business environment, rolling out a cumulative 955 measures over eight years.
Teaching will combine in-house interdisciplinary faculty with external mentors from Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and major technology companies.
The broader ecosystem around the China (Wenzhou) Data Security Harbor has already attracted 1,215 data-related companies, according to the conference.
Private-sector industrial firms remained the main engine of growth in the January-April period, with output rising 7.9% and contributing nearly 80% of total industrial expansion.
The moves come as Hangzhou intensifies efforts at the start of its “15th Five-Year Plan” period (2026-2030) to position itself as what officials call China’s “top city for AI innovation and development.”
Liu said the platform “cannot become a showcase that is built but unused,” calling for bolder experimentation and business models capable of generating sustainable revenue.
The plan lays out “1 overall goal, 8 key areas and 17 priority tasks,” targeting design, construction, management and service operations across the city’s built environment.
The city identified three priorities for the coming five years: open-source AI, embodied intelligence and institutional reform.
Brazil was the largest overseas market for Ningbo’s NEV exports in April, with shipments valued at 2.92 billion yuan, up 361.6% year on year.
The rollout of the four new funds came on the heels of two smaller vehicles unveiled on May 15, sized at 1 billion yuan and 500 million yuan, respectively.
On the financial side, many Zhejiang exporters are primarily settling cross-border trade directly in yuan, circumventing dollar-denominated wire transfers.
Under the system, carbon accounts function like digital ledgers for emissions generated by companies and individuals.
By the end of 2025, the three funds had approved investments into 392 sub-funds and 4,614 projects, with total committed capital reaching 143.3 billion yuan.
They include a 1 billion yuan low-carbon development fund and a 500 million yuan secondary, or S, fund focused on private equity share transfers.
The center combines commercial demonstrations with data collection, skill training and R&D collaboration functions.
Local officials are also leveraging the competition as a platform to court broader industry participation.
Teams were required to guide self-developed underwater robots through a full sequence of search, positioning, retrieval and return tasks across the lake’s thousand-acre natural water area.
The launch comes as embodied AI startups face mounting bottlenecks around fragmented computing resources, limited access to training data and a lack of standardized testing environments.
This year’s competition focuses on industrial, service and special-use applications, with all tasks derived from practical pain points identified by leading companies rather than abstract benchmarks.
The sector aims to reach an annual output of 8 billion yuan by 2027, with 30 takeoff and landing sites, 40 drone routes, and low-altitude flight hours climbing from 5,000 to 75,000 annually.
The latest policy expands the number of sectors open to private capital from seven to nine by adding offshore wind and urban infrastructure projects.
This event comes as local governments and companies increasingly shift attention from flashy demonstrations toward practical industrial deployment.
The policy calls for public-sector buyers to prioritize new-energy and methanol-powered vehicles across public transit, sanitation, driving schools and postal delivery fleets.
Exports of mechanical and electrical products — Zhejiang’s largest export category — rose 5.9% to 661.8 billion yuan, accounting for 47.4% of total outbound shipments.
Local authorities said AI literacy courses now cover all grade levels across the city’s primary and secondary schools, with students receiving at least 10 class hours per academic year.
With the new policy, Ningbo hopes to gather over 10,000 AI “super-individuals” by 2028, strengthening the city’s footprint in the emerging solo-entrepreneur economy.
The plan places humanoid robots among Zhejiang’s priority industries as China intensifies efforts to commercialize embodied AI and advanced robotics.
In the innovation sector, Zhejiang plunged 16.14 billion yuan into 211 science and technology foundation projects, with an investment completion rate of 38.47%.
During this year’s Lunar New Year holiday season, AI-produced dramas accounted for nearly 30% of short-drama views, according to industry estimates cited by organizers.
The initiative lays out 16 measures spanning corporate R&D, innovation platforms and commercialization, with a focus on making companies the main drivers of innovation.
About 90% of the projects fall under Zhejiang’s “415X” framework, which groups industries into four world-class sectors, 15 provincial clusters and a pipeline of emerging fields.
Drones had completed more than 1,000 flights carrying over 20,000 kilograms of cargo, while autonomous vehicles delivered more than 2 million parcels and logged over 310,000 kilometers.
The province’s core AI sector generated more than 700 billion yuan in revenue in 2025, up 20% from a year earlier.
The launch signals a shift from isolated trials to coordinated deployment in urban traffic management.
It also explores a coding system akin to digital identification for robots, aimed at improving traceability and accountability.
Output from the clusters rose 8.5% year-on-year, outpacing large-scale industrial growth by 1.6 percentage points.
By 2035, officials expect the district’s AI industry revenue to surpass 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion), forming the backbone of the envisioned hub.
Once fully completed, the plant is expected to generate more than 54 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually—enough to meet the needs of over 5 million people.
Teams are required to use Unitree Robotics’s Go2 robots to navigate the course, completing a sequence of movements, object transfers and identification tasks without failure.
Trade with ASEAN countries rose 68.3%, the fastest among major markets, while commerce with Africa increased 47.3% to 41 billion yuan.
Hangzhou has set a goal of becoming China’s leading AI hub, evolving from its roots as an e-commerce center into a broader deeptech powerhouse, with a focus on AI.
Hangzhou also aims to cultivate over 18,000 high-value patents through dedicated programs, but officials fell short of defining “high-value” at the conference.
Hangzhou’s push draws on its industrial base of nearly 7,500 large-scale manufacturers with annual main-business revenue of 20 million yuan ($2.93 million) and more.
The data comes as Hangzhou enters the first year of China’s 15th five-year planning cycle (2026-2030) and steps up its push toward becoming a 3 trillion-yuan economy.
The model has gained momentum over the past six months, targeting dense commercial zones, office clusters and residential neighborhoods.
Authorities highlighted progress across four focus areas—commodities, digital trade, logistics hubs and commerce.
The three-day event (April 22-24), themed around innovation and AI, will introduce a dedicated forum connecting unicorn companies with overseas listing channels, particularly in Hong Kong.
The city trails only Beijing in total computing capacity, according to industry data, reflecting the capital’s concentration of national-level data centers and research institutions.
The rollout comes as Hangzhou faces growing strain on public security resources. The city’s registered population has surged past 8.8 million, while vehicle ownership exceeded 5 million.
Together, the two categories accounted for more than one-fifth of Zhejiang’s export growth over the period.
The latest revision expands its forward-looking layer, with a sharper focus on space technology and low-altitude aviation systems.
The timing comes as offshore listings, primarily on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), continue to play an important role in the expansion strategies of Chinese startups.
The policy outlines 12 measures spanning areas such as market entry, compliance guidance, rights protection, credit support and regulatory oversight.
The operator estimates annual fuel savings of around 580 tons and carbon dioxide reductions of more than 1,400 tons, based on internal projections.
In recent years, the port has rolled out shore power systems across all terminals except liquid chemical berths and has expanded clean fuel bunkering services to support low-emission shipping.
The project has been designated both a national demonstration program for green and low-carbon technologies and a major industrial project in Zhejiang province.
A central focus is the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), particularly in neurorehabilitation. The policy calls for leveraging national AI pilot platforms to accelerate clinical deployment.
The blueprint, part of a broader “AI plus manufacturing” initiative, aims to build a coordinated innovation system spanning core technologies, product supply and service ecosystems.
The action plan focuses on “full-scene openness,” meaning AI will be applied across every aspect of the manufacturing process.
The exhibition comes as Zhejiang cements its status as one of China’s most advanced industrial ecosystems.
The port handles around 2,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) daily, peaking at over 4,000, with more than half destined for transshipment.
These programs target core technology breakthroughs and foundational research that underpins industrial growth.
The training program has been operational since 2023, designed to systematically build capacity for government officials and help them stay at the forefront of technological advancements.
Zhejiang has been a pioneer in this area, conducting feasibility studies for the development of future industries as early as 2020.
Hangzhou has spent 18 years building its student entrepreneurship programs, rolling out six successive three-year initiatives that have helped nurture startups including robotics firm Unitree.
Zhejiang’s total marine output ranked fourth nationwide behind Guangdong, Shandong and Shanghai, accounting for 11.6% of China’s overall ocean economy.
At the same time, the province launched 5,325 technology-upgrade projects under a broader industrial modernization initiative, with planned investment totaling 694.3 billion yuan.
Provincial officials see OPCs as emblematic of a new economic unit emerging in the intelligent economy era, where AI amplifies individual productivity and lowers barriers to entrepreneurship.
The surge highlights how the 2015 merger of Ningbo and Zhoushan ports — once close competitors sharing the same waterways — has evolved into a complementary logistics powerhouse.
His comments align with heated discussions among policymakers and investors about nurturing long-term capital capable of accompanying tech companies through extended growth cycles.