Recently, the seats of the Kazakhstan delegation were arranged in prominent positions at the venue of the Beijing Jiuxianqiao Forum. When the Secretary General of the Global Digital Economy Cities Alliance, You Jing, presented the shocking figure that the scale of Beijing's AI core industry had reached 450 billion yuan, the notebook of the Kazakhstan representative was already filled with cooperation memos. A Sino Kazakh AI handshake across the Tianshan Mountains is moving from intention to agenda.

Beijing's large model registration accounts for 40% of the national total

Beijing has gathered over 2500 AI companies, and more than 40% of the 223 large models registered with the national cyberspace administration were born here. Special support policies continue to increase, and computing power costs can receive up to 50% subsidies. Small and medium-sized enterprises can also receive an additional 30% reduction through vouchers. The synchronous acceleration of high-quality dataset construction lays the raw material warehouse for the training of the new generation of neural networks.

Kazakhstan invites Chinese enterprises to visit Kazakhstan in summer and autumn of 2026

The Kazakhstan delegation plans to come to China again in the summer to participate in a large-scale technology forum, and in the autumn, the heads of top Chinese technology companies will fly to Astana to attend the Digital Bridge Forum. The Global Digital Economy Cities Alliance has simultaneously revealed that it will establish multiple collaborations with Kazakhstan this year, covering three major tracks: artificial intelligence, smart cities, and digital economy. The density of mutual visits between the two sides has suddenly increased, and technological cooperation has shifted from occasional contacts to institutionalized docking. Keywords: the Belt and Road news network, digital economy, artificial intelligence

Europe wants to be a bridge, Asia becomes a new market

Mirochkov, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Benelux Economic Union China Chamber of Commerce, pointed out that Kazakhstan and Southeast Asia are becoming important potential markets for China's AI industry to go global, but cultural and administrative barriers still need to be adjusted. Europe, with its mature regulatory system and high trust standards, can play an intermediary role in international cooperation. When Beijing's technology spillover meets Astana's digital thirst, Central Asia is becoming an undeniable new variable on the global AI map.Editor/Gao Xue