July 11
2026 AI Terminal “Four-Chain Integration” Matchmaking Event
Held in Nanjing
Jiangsu Province Artificial Intelligence Specialized Industry Talent Cluster
Official inauguration
In recent years, Nanjing has fully leveraged its status as China’s first “Software City” and Jiangsu Province’s only National Pilot Zone for Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Application to accelerate its “AI + Software” initiative. The city’s AI products and services now span all sectors of the industry chain—including the infrastructure, technology, and application layers—and software revenue is projected to exceed one trillion yuan by 2025.
The Jiangsu Province Artificial Intelligence Specialized Industry Talent Cluster, which has been approved for development, covers a planned area of approximately 38 square kilometers, spanning Yuhuatai District and Jianye District. With the China (Nanjing) Software Valley and the Jianye High-Tech Zone as its core hubs, the cluster brings together more than 6,900 software companies and over 600 enterprises in the artificial intelligence sector. with software business revenue reaching 444.5 billion yuan, accounting for 25% of the province’s total; the number of employees in related fields exceeds 80,000; and there are over 1,900 financial institutions of various types, accounting for 60% of the city’s total. The zone boasts a robust industrial foundation, a high concentration of talent, and abundant resources and factors of production.
In the future, the cluster will follow a “One Belt, Two Cores, Four Zones, and Multiple Hubs” development framework to integrate high-quality resources from the city’s universities, research institutes, and service organizations. It will coordinate the implementation of five major initiatives—talent recruitment and cultivation, industrial innovation, platform development, institutional reform, and ecosystem enhancement—to accelerate the development of the city’s artificial intelligence industry and talent pool. The plan is to attract more than 130,000 industry professionals within three years, with the output value of the core AI industry exceeding 115 billion yuan, striving to build a model demonstration zone for the integrated development of industry, talent, and urban infrastructure that possesses regional leadership, national influence, and global competitiveness.
To date, Nanjing has established two provincial-level talent clusters for specialty industries. Among them, the Provincial Information and Communications Specialty Industry Talent Cluster—the first of its kind in the province—began construction last May. Moving forward, Nanjing will prioritize the development of high-level talent attraction and aggregation platforms as its overarching strategy. The city will strengthen the construction of provincial-level talent clusters for specialized industries, roll out municipal-level clusters in phases, continue to deepen the “integration of the four chains,” promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and focus on building a new ecosystem for industry-talent integration that carries significant influence both nationally and provincially.
