On November 3rd, the Industrial and Information Technology WeChat News released a signed article by Li Lecheng, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, titled "Accelerating the Empowerment of New Industrialization with Artificial Intelligence" in the 11th issue of the "Party Building" magazine in 2025. Li Lecheng introduced that China's artificial intelligence industry is flourishing and its overall strength ranks among the top in the world. According to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, by 2024, the scale of China's core artificial intelligence industry will exceed 900 billion yuan, the number of artificial intelligence enterprises will exceed 5000, and there will be over 400 national level "little giant" enterprises specializing in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence will empower new industrialization to deepen and become more practical. For the next stage of development, Li Lecheng proposed to "strive to write a new chapter of artificial intelligence empowering new industrialization". Specifically, there are six aspects, namely: accelerating breakthroughs in key core technologies, deepening the implementation of "artificial intelligence+manufacturing", focusing on cultivating AI advantage enterprises, optimizing the industrial development environment, strengthening security governance guarantees, and deepening international exchanges and cooperation. Regarding the acceleration of breakthroughs in key core technologies, Li Lecheng stated that in order to seize the initiative and gain advantages in the field of artificial intelligence, it is necessary to cultivate "root technologies" and solidify the foundation of computing power, algorithms, data, and other basic foundations. Strengthen the supply of computing power, coordinate and make good use of existing support channels, accelerate breakthroughs in high-end chip, high-speed interconnection and other technologies, and promote the construction of an intelligent chip software hardware collaborative development ecosystem. Build a computing power interconnection platform and strengthen collaborative scheduling of computing power. Tackle algorithmic models, strengthen research on underlying algorithms such as language, vision, and multimodality, and break through cutting-edge technologies such as brain like intelligence and world models. Develop large-scale models in industrial sub sectors and encourage collaborative innovation between large and small models. Build a large-scale model public service platform, providing high-level model and supporting tool services. Promote "modulus resonance", guide the collaborative innovation and deep integration of artificial intelligence models and high-quality datasets, and establish an integrated mechanism of "data sharing, model optimization, application incubation, and security guarantee". In terms of deepening the implementation of "artificial intelligence+manufacturing", Li Lecheng proposed that the manufacturing industry is the foundation of building a country and a strong nation, and is the main battlefield for the application of artificial intelligence. Improve the policy system, study and formulate implementation opinions for the "Artificial Intelligence+Manufacturing" special action, deploy intelligent transformation tasks for key industries, key links, and key fields, and release guidelines for the application of artificial intelligence in manufacturing enterprises. Accelerate the intelligent transformation of key industries, formulate guidelines for the intelligent transformation of key manufacturing industries, regularly carry out empowerment "deep travel" activities, build online and offline supply and demand docking platforms, and accelerate the promotion and application of industry benchmark solutions and experience. Promote the intelligent upgrading of the entire manufacturing process, deeply embed artificial intelligence technology into the core links of production and manufacturing, expand application scenarios such as intelligent assisted design, virtual simulation, and fault warning, and comprehensively transform innovation paradigms, production methods, and management models. Accelerate the iteration and innovation of intelligent product equipment, promote the replacement of consumer terminals such as AI smartphones and AI computers, accelerate the research and application of new generation intelligent terminals such as humanoid robots and brain computer interfaces, and promote the deep integration of large models with intelligent connected new energy vehicles, CNC machine tools, etc. Accelerate the design, development, testing, and deployment of intelligent agents, and explore the collaborative ecosystem of multiple agents. In terms of focusing on cultivating AI advantage enterprises, Li Lecheng emphasized that enterprises are the basic cells of economic operation and the main force driving the development and empowerment of AI applications. Cultivate ecological leading enterprises, support leading enterprises to increase innovation investment in the field of artificial intelligence, undertake major scientific and technological tasks, and cultivate a group of ecological leading enterprises with global influence. Support the hierarchical development of small and medium-sized enterprises, increase support for their computing power, data, scenarios, etc., and cultivate more AI specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises, high-tech enterprises, and manufacturing industry single champion enterprises. Strengthen and empower application service providers, encourage enterprises to gather resources such as tools, technologies, platforms, etc., cultivate high-quality service providers, connect technology supply and scenario demand, create standardized industry empowerment solutions, and provide services such as model optimization, data governance, and security assurance. In terms of optimizing the industrial development environment, Li Lecheng has made it clear to increase financial support, leverage the role of the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, and guide social capital to invest in early, small, long-term, and hard technology. Guide industrial agglomeration, build a national manufacturing innovation center in the field of artificial intelligence with high quality, and enhance the supply capacity of key common technologies. Guide the National Artificial Intelligence Innovation Application Pilot Zone to gather high-quality enterprises and create an innovative application highland with obvious industry characteristics and advantages. Give full play to the advantages of national high-tech zones and advanced manufacturing clusters, and support the innovation and coordinated development of artificial intelligence industry clusters. (New Society)