China's core AI industry to exceed 400 billion RMB by 2025
“the scale of AI’s core industry will be more than 400 billion RMB, and the scale of related industries will exceed 5 trillion RMB.”
Context: China State Council, "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" (Jul 2017), DigiChina/New America full translation.
How we judge it
Our interpretation: official Chinese statistics (e.g. MIIT or CAICT) put the core AI industry above 400 billion RMB for 2025.
Resolution criteria are our interpretation of the claim, written before grading. Methodology
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- Verdict
- Kept ()
- Stated probability
- None stated
- Specificity
- 2 of 3 (dated, some interpretation)
- Score
- 1.0 points × weight 2
Evidence & grader’s note
China's MIIT minister said the core AI industry was valued at more than 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025, well above the plan's 400 billion yuan target. (The related-industries target of 5 trillion yuan is not separately graded here.)
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- Verdict Graded: Kept.
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