July 20, the State Council officially issued a "new generation of artificial intelligence development plan" (referred to as "planning"), targeted to put forward the "three-step" stage development tasks, clear the future of China's artificial intelligence industry strategic objectives : 2020 artificial technology and the overall application of the world's advanced level of synchronization, artificial intelligence core industry scale of more than 150 billion yuan, driven by the scale of related industries more than 1 trillion yuan; to 2025 part of the technology and application to the world's leading level, the core industry scale More than 400 billion yuan, driven by the scale of related industries more than 5 trillion yuan; to 2030 technology and application to achieve the world's leading level, the core industry scale more than 1 trillion yuan, driven by the scale of related industries more than 10 trillion yuan.

The industry generally said that the introduction of "planning" will further promote the rapid development of China's artificial intelligence industry, and for the entire industry to establish a blueprint for development. At present, the industry has formed a consensus that China's artificial intelligence industry is entering the "accelerated maturity", voice, images, transportation and other fields of many artificial intelligence applications, not only in the near future mature, will quickly spread.

At present, Baidu, Ali, Tencent, Lenovo, Huawei, Jingdong and other enterprises are accelerating the layout of artificial intelligence industry. Lenovo Group President and CEO Yang Yuanqing to the "Economic Information Daily" reporter said that with the application of artificial intelligence technology, China's Internet is from the PC Internet, mobile Internet into the smart Internet era. The industry is generally believed that IT giants to accelerate the layout of artificial intelligence industry, will have a positive demonstration effect, will further promote the industry mature. With the introduction of "planning", a large number of venture capital activities will be further active, and constantly promote the industry to thrive.

According to Forrester, China and other third-party institutions to invest in incomplete statistics, 2016 China's public disclosure of the field of artificial intelligence investment of more than 200, the cumulative investment amount of more than 20 billion yuan. The industry believes that the next two years, the amount of investment in the field of artificial intelligence will maintain rapid growth, the total investment in 2017 may be 2016 or even higher, will easily break 50 billion yuan mark.

Sai Fu Asia Investment Fund, founder of the management of Yan Yan, Chairman of the Board of Directors Guo Guo and other investment community, said the artificial intelligence industry development momentum is good, will be a huge industry and venture opportunities. Baidu, Ali, Tencent, Lenovo and other companies also said that "planning" after the introduction of the industry will further promote the development of the future will seize this industry opportunities in technology research and development at the same time, the use of investment and open platform and other means to accelerate Artificial intelligence industry layout, and promote the overall development of China's artificial intelligence industry.