China's 15th Five-Year Plan Includes AI Open Source Community Development for the First Time, Analyst: China Bets on Open Source as a Counter to US Core Advantage

According to 1M AI News monitoring, the draft outline of China's 15th Five-Year Plan for the first time included the construction of an AI open-source community in a national five-year plan. Tilly Zhang, a technology policy analyst at research firm Gavekal Dragonomics, pointed out that open source had never appeared in previous plans. "China has carefully studied and decided to make open-source AI a flagship strategy and a competitive advantage over the United States," which is also a key point of divergence in the AI strategies of China and the United States. Previously, DeepSeek garnered global attention with its open-source approach. By including open source in the national plan this time, it means that this strategy has evolved from enterprise-driven behavior to a national strategy.

The full plan is 141 pages long, mentioning AI over 50 times and including a comprehensive "AI+ Action Plan." Specific measures include piloting robot replacement of jobs in industries facing labor shortages, deploying AI Agents capable of task execution with minimal human intervention, and building a "super-large-scale" computing power cluster supported by cheap and abundant electricity. The national R&D expenditure will grow at an average annual rate of not less than 7%, with a 10% year-on-year increase in the science budget, the largest increase among all major expenditure categories.