Abstract: During the Two Sessions in 2024, “artificial intelligence +” was included in the government work report for the first time. “Artificial intelligence +” will become a powerful engine for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and a powerful starting point and an important focus to accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces. “Artificial intelligence +” can promote the formation and development of new quality productive forces by improving production efficiency, reducing production costs, and creating new value; it can advance the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and stimulate the vitality of emerging and future industries to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system; and it can also empower all fields of the national economy to become intelligent, digital, and green to help promote high quality economic development. However, China still faces some risks and challenges in utilizing “artificial intelligence +” to empower the development of new quality productive forces. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the top-level design of “artificial intelligence +”, reinforce its core engine and leading role, and enhance the empowering effects of data, computing power and algorithms, so as to advance the establishment of “artificial intelligence +” research and development system, industrial system and policy system, and give full play to the empowering role of “artificial intelligence +” in the development of new quality productive forces under a relatively complete institutional framework.