Jiangsu Issues 2026-2030 High-Level University Plan with Dedicated AI Empowerment Initiative

The Jiangsu provincial government issued the High-Level University Construction Plan (2026-2030), aiming for 1-2 universities to enter the forefront of world-class universities by 2030. It includes a dedicated AI empowerment plan supporting AI general education, discipline development, and intelligent agents, expanding applications in teaching, learning, research, and management. The plan also promotes emerging interdisciplinary fields like integrated circuits and AI, and establishes a special professor program selecting about 150 people annually.

This plan makes AI empowerment a core task in high-level university construction, directly affecting AI education resource allocation, discipline layout, and faculty recruitment in Jiangsu universities, providing policy basis and funding for AI education products. It also emphasizes cultivating interdisciplinary innovative talents for the digital age, changing AI talent supply and setting an example for universities nationwide. However, as a provincial plan, actual effects depend on subsequent funding allocation and implementation. Jiangsu universities will accelerate AI general education courses and intelligent agents, driving large-scale adoption of AI education tools and platforms. The special professor program focusing on AI and other fields will recruit about 150 people annually, strengthening AI faculty and affecting talent cultivation quality.