On October 30, the city of Linyi held the fifth session of its policy briefing series to unveil the Linyi AI Plus Manufacturing Three-Year Action Plan (2026-2028), jointly issued by 12 municipal departments including the industry and information technology bureau, according to Luwang and Sina Finance. The stated goal: make Linyi a province-leading hub for AI-driven manufacturing by the end of 2028.
The quantitative targets are concrete: by end-2028, the city aims to cultivate 10 vertical industrial LLMs, 20 industrial high-quality datasets and corpora, 20 industrial agents, 50 typical AI application scenarios and 100 advanced-or-above smart factories. The plan groups the city's 13 signature industrial chains into four clusters — advanced materials, high-end equipment and new energy, food processing, and modern consumer goods — naming scenarios such as intelligent optimization of smelting and rolling as priorities.
Addressing the familiar complaint that small manufacturers "don't know how, dare not, or don't go deep" with AI upgrades, the plan pairs online diagnostic assessments with in-factory services across four links: R&D design, production, supply chain and operations. Large firms set benchmarks while SMEs adopt faster, lighter upgrades. By 2028 every above-scale industrial enterprise should have an AI-readiness diagnosis, with 30% receiving on-site assessments and 6 factories reaching excellence or pioneer grade.
Linyi plan: core targets by end-2028
· 10 vertical LLMs, 20 industrial datasets, 20 industrial agents
· 50 typical AI application scenarios, 100 advanced-or-above smart factories
· Full diagnostic coverage of above-scale industrial firms; 30% on-site rate; 6 top-grade factories
· 100+ DCMM-certified enterprises, 20+ AI application service providers
Enablers are specified alongside: compute facilities, data resources and industrial models form the digital foundation, while service-provider cultivation, talent and OPC startups get dedicated support. Quarterly innovation roadshows, AI-adapted credit products from banks, and strict industrial data classification round out the measures, with qualifying projects prioritized into provincial and municipal major-project pipelines.
Linyi's confidence rests on an existing industrial base: its engineering-machinery smart-manufacturing platform is already in the province's "6+6" major infrastructure pipeline, the Huaihai (Linyi) big data center has national-level support, and municipal engineering research centers for AI applications are in place. The novelty here is not the concept but the bookkeeping — diagnosis rates, factory counts and scenario counts assigned to named departments. Execution will show in the roster two years out.