China Mobile Henan Expands AI Integration to Empower National Unified Market

China Mobile’s Henan Company is making significant strides in expanding its “Artificial Intelligence +” initiatives, effectively empowering the nationwide unified market. On March 5, during the opening of the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress, Premier Li Qiang presented the government’s work report, which highlighted the achievements of the information and communication industry over the past year. The report emphasized the need to deepen and expand “Artificial Intelligence +” by 2026, promoting the rapid rollout of a new generation of intelligent terminals and agents, thereby advancing the construction of a unified national market to serve national strategies and empower the real economy.

As a key player in the digital transformation of Henan, China Mobile Henan has aligned its efforts with national strategic deployments, consistently increasing investments in new information infrastructure. This includes establishing core support platforms like the Central Intelligent Computing Center and Industry Large Model Innovation Base. By deeply integrating AI into various sectors such as agriculture, industry, and cultural tourism, Henan Mobile is developing replicable and scalable “Artificial Intelligence +” benchmark scenarios, thus injecting strong momentum into the cultivation of new productive forces.

Smart Empowerment of Industries: A Digital Transformation from Fields to Workshops

With spring in full swing, the fields of central China are bustling as the crucial planting season begins. In the high-standard farmlands of Lan’ao, Henan, green wheat shoots thrive as advanced digital technologies quietly operate. The AI + Digital Rural Comprehensive Service Platform, developed by China Mobile, utilizes integrated monitoring networks comprising satellite remote sensing, drones, and IoT devices. Leveraging a large agricultural model, “Wanxiang Gengyun,” it consolidates five core capabilities: AI agricultural Q&A, agricultural disaster early warning, smart irrigation, growth monitoring, and intelligent farming planning, ensuring precise coverage throughout the spring planting and field management processes.

The agricultural monitoring stations deployed in the fields collect real-time multidimensional data on soil moisture, meteorological conditions, crop growth, and pest dynamics. By combining satellite imagery analysis and drone inspections, a comprehensive big data lake for agricultural production is formed. AI algorithms extract valuable insights from this vast data pool, providing scientific bases for agricultural production, management, and decision-making. This technology facilitates the creation of digital twin models of crop growth, offering personalized farming solutions tailored to various regions. With digital intelligence, agriculture has transitioned from “farming by chance” to a new phase of “farming by knowledge.”

Simultaneously, the manufacturing sector in Henan is also experiencing a wave of digital transformation. The Hui County Mengdian Group’s smart mining operations implement 5G + AI visual monitoring, drone inspections, and autonomous mining trucks to identify risks in real time and issue precise warnings, establishing a zero-accident safety standard. Moreover, the Zhengzhou Baoye Steel Structure Company has created the country’s first 5G + AI smart production line, integrating machine vision and AR remote diagnostics, which enhances production efficiency by 30%, reduces labor by 80%, and lowers overall costs by 20%. The Zhoukou Port utilizes a dedicated 5G network and AI scheduling platform to achieve remote control of gantry cranes and autonomous container trucks, significantly improving operational efficiency.

With AI as a driving force, Henan Mobile is deeply engaged in the province’s “8×7” industrial large model matrix, facilitating the integration of intelligent technologies across 28 key industrial chains and establishing 13 industry benchmarks, propelling industrial production from “manufacturing” to “intelligent manufacturing.”

Smart Services for the Public: Empowering Consumption Upgrades and Inclusive Services

The 2026 government work report identifies “building a strong domestic market” as a key annual task, emphasizing the importance of domestic demand and integrating consumption expansion and investment growth. Cultural and tourism consumption serves as a vital engine for expanding domestic demand and is revitalized through digital technologies.

During the 2026 Spring Festival holiday, Henan welcomed a total of 62.81 million domestic tourists, generating 37.63 billion yuan in tourism revenue. Online travel consumption saw a year-on-year increase of 38%, with total spending growing by 37%, showcasing the strong charm and consumption potential of central China’s cultural tourism. As a core site of Song culture, Kaifeng emerged as a popular Spring Festival destination. The Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden consistently ranks among the most favored theme parks in the country. Here, digital technologies breathe new life into the thousand-year-old Song culture, with “5G + holographic projection” technology bringing the splendor of Bianjing to life at night, allowing visitors to haggle with holographic vendors as they stroll across the Rainbow Bridge. From the Qingming Riverside Garden to the cloud sea at Laojun Mountain and the inscriptions at Anyang Yin Ruins, Henan Mobile is breaking boundaries with its “AI + Cultural Tourism” initiatives, continuously creating new business models and experiences that transform “Hometown Henan” into perceivable, shareable, and consumable cultural tourism experiences, positioning cities like Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, and Anyang among the leaders in the national cultural tourism scene.

Currently, Henan Mobile is accelerating the AI coverage of all 4A-level scenic spots in the province, fully integrating cultural tourism data resources. Based on tourists’ needs for dining, accommodation, travel, entertainment, and transportation, along with requests from tourism management departments for crowd management and emergency response, they are developing the “5G Message Portal + One Device to Tour Henan” application, injecting strong digital momentum into Henan’s transition to a cultural tourism powerhouse and a world-class cultural tourism destination.

Furthermore, as AI applications become more accessible, Henan Mobile is deepening its efforts in the “AI + Traditional Chinese Medicine” sector, continuously enhancing its digital intelligence capabilities. This includes improving data management, application, asset, and circulation core competencies, and optimizing computing power scheduling to support the implementation of AI technologies. By actively collaborating with academic and research institutions, Henan Mobile has partnered with several traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in the province to develop tailored large models for specific scenarios, effectively breaking down geographical barriers to high-quality medical resources and enhancing regional healthcare capabilities, ultimately promoting the intelligent upgrade and inclusive development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry.

Smart Connectivity for Ecological Development: Establishing a New Collaborative Development Framework

Advancing the construction of a nationwide unified market requires not only robust digital infrastructure but also a well-developed industrial ecosystem. Henan Mobile leverages its geographic advantages to deeply embed AI technologies into cross-regional governance and industrial ecosystem development processes, thereby connecting collaborative development efforts through digital intelligence to strengthen support for building a circulating hub for the nationwide unified market.

In cross-regional governance, smart water conservancy projects exemplify successful implementation. Utilizing 5G and IoT technologies, Henan Mobile spearheaded the creation of the first integrated water data platform in the Yellow River basin— the Smart Yellow River Protection and Management Platform. This platform features core sections such as Cloud River Earth and the Xiaoyu Large Model, achieving dynamic simulations and risk warnings for the entire Yellow River basin. By forming specialized task forces and collaborating with industry leaders, they aim to realize localized digital twin engines, enhancing intelligent monitoring and perception capabilities to support ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin, facilitating cross-regional ecological governance.

In terms of data elements, Henan Mobile has partnered with the Zhengzhou Data Trading Center to establish the largest operator data zone in the country, reinforcing data circulation infrastructure to support Henan’s development as a national data market hub. In computing power scheduling, leveraging the “Computing Network Brain” from China Mobile, Henan Mobile has created a benchmark for computing power networking in Xuchang, actively promoting the online sales of various computing resources. In cross-regional services, they are engaging major internet firms to establish data centers, content centers, and intelligent computing centers in Henan, helping the province become a hub for computing operations serving Central China and radiating nationwide. In terms of industrial ecosystem development, Henan Mobile is deeply involved in the provincial AI public service system, fostering a complete ecosystem of “platform + scenarios + talent.” They have signed agreements with the Henan AI Association to co-develop an AI application marketplace and jointly initiate AI talent training programs, aiming to create an open, collaborative, and innovative industrial ecosystem that fuels high-quality development in the province’s AI industry.

The tide has risen, and the future is here. From the intelligent farming practices in spring fields to the digital transformation of industrial workshops, from the consumer boom during the Spring Festival to inclusive healthcare in grassroots hospitals, Henan Mobile is leading the way in the proliferation of “Artificial Intelligence +” scenarios across Central China. They have established a distinctive, replicable, and scalable model for industry development. Moving forward, Henan Mobile will continue to align with the province’s efforts to integrate into the nationwide unified market, accelerate the cultivation of new productive forces, and promote the research and implementation of large models and scenarios for “Artificial Intelligence +” across various industries, striving to contribute to the advancement of modernization in Central China through mobile digital strength.