MIIT Issues Plan to Accelerate AI and Software Integration

People's Daily reported that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued an implementation plan for a specialized artificial intelligence plus software action in September, setting forth measures to optimize the intelligent programming toolchain and accelerate the intelligent upgrading of software products to advance the integration and application of artificial intelligence technology in the software and information technology services sector. The rapid advance of artificial intelligence technology is profoundly altering software production methods, product formats, and service models, while presenting the industry with new questions regarding how to maintain competitive advantages as programming barriers drop and artificial intelligence becomes increasingly adept at generating code. The plan arranges steps across advancing changes in software production, expediting the intelligent upgrading of software products, and cultivating new formats for agent software, as agent systems shift software from executing passive instructions to understanding user intent and completing tasks independently while service models pivot toward continuously delivering intelligent applications. The plan specifically supports qualified industrial enterprises in partnering with software firms to package industrial experience and process parameters into reusable model libraries and industrial components, enabling the joint development of intelligent industrial software for specific sectors.

Media reports noted that a software development enterprise in Chongqing assigned 3 artificial intelligence agents to separately serve as product manager, project manager, and technical manager, turning engineers into supervisors overseeing scheduling and quality checks while code generation tools reached full coverage across certain firms.