Fujian issues three-year 'AI Plus' plan targeting 50 products and 100 use cases

Fujian's provincial government office issued the Fujian Action Plan for Promoting "AI Plus" (2026-2028) on November 12, according to a report by Caishang China carried by Sohu.

The plan rests on five principles: independent innovation, application-driven development, ecosystem coordination, open sharing and security under control. It directs the province to leverage its existing digital base, data infrastructure and rich application scenarios, aiming to build a southeastern innovation hub for the AI industry with national influence.

Manufacturing receives the most detail. The plan targets the province's "555X" industrial clusters with dedicated "AI plus manufacturing" and "AI plus software" programs, pushes software products toward intelligent upgrades and industry-specific vertical models, and supports smart factories, production-process optimization and energy management. It sets concrete goals of 50 quality AI products and more than 100 typical application scenarios, with energy applications named in grid dispatch, wind power maintenance and nuclear safety.

On computing, the plan calls for city-level data centers around the Fuzhou metropolitan area, including Pingtan, and the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou corridor, organized into a province-wide integrated network described as "one core, two zones, multiple nodes." It also calls for accelerating a national computing interconnection regional node in Fujian, upgrading the provincial computing resource service platform and connecting to the national computing network.

Cost is addressed with specific instruments. The plan promotes computing rental and service procurement models, supports local "computing vouchers" and broader inclusive computing subsidies, and explores direct green-power connections and coordination between computing and power.

Models and agents form the second track. Fujian will streamline filing services and safety assessments for generative AI models, encourage work on multimodal models, agents, embodied intelligence and ocean remote-sensing algorithms, and guide industries toward vertical models. It targets more than 60 industry vertical models and promises subsidies or awards, within existing rules, for selected vertical models and agent projects.

Bundling application counts, model counts and subsidy mechanisms into a single document is a familiar pattern in provincial policy: the numbers supply measurable targets, while the funding supplies a reason for companies to invest. For Fujian, manufacturing clusters and the marine economy provide comparatively clear places to start.

What matters next is the implementing detail: the size and application process for computing vouchers, the criteria used to select vertical models, and whether the 100 scenarios turn into reusable cases within three years rather than remaining a list.