China Center for Information Industry Development

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is accelerating the formation of a standards working group for industrial operating systems, alongside drafting and validating key standards to support large-scale adoption. Industrial OS is positioned as a critical foundation for AI-enabled industry, shifting from single-project pilots toward reusable common platforms plus industry-specific capabilities. A companion AI-plus-software initiative targets 20,000 large software firms by 2028, while IDC forecasts China's industrial enterprise AI spending to reach RMB 280 billion by 2030.