“Artificial Intelligence +” Empowers the Development of New Quality Productive ForcesIntrinsic Mechanism and Exploring the Pathways

During the 2024 National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, “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 technological revolution and industrial transformation, and a powerful lever and 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 promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, stimulate the vitality of emerging and future industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system; it can empower various fields of the national economy to become intelligent, digital, and green, and help promote high quality economic development. However, China still faces some risks and challenges in using “artificial intelligence+” to empower the development of new quality productive forces. For example, suffering from complex economic situations and environmental impacts both domestically and internationally; some key core technology areas have prominent “bottleneck” risks; the “smart divide” of unbalanced regional economic development; lack of strong supporting policies for “artificial intelligence +” etc. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the top level design of “artificial intelligence +”, strengthen the core engine and leading role of “artificial intelligence +”, enhance the empowering effects of data, computing power and algorithms, so as to accelerate the establishment of “artificial intelligence +” research and development system, industrial system and policy system, and fully leverage the empowering role of “artificial intelligence +” in the development of new quality productive forces under a relatively complete institutional framework.