New solutions to drive country's 'AI+' initiative

Amid the country's call to push an "AI+" initiative for improving scientific and technological strength, a key market player has showcased its latest achievements to power the current artificial intelligence drive.

Kingdee International Software Group Co Ltd, a Hong Kong-listed company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, showcased the country's first enterprise-level AI native super entrance — "Xiao K" — which works 24/7 to help businesses reduce labor costs, and upgraded its "Kingdee Cloud" to "Kingdee AI".

Speaking in Shanghai on Nov 4 at Kingdee's Global Changemakers Conference 2025, Kingdee Chairman and CEO Xu Shaochun, said the Kingdee Xiao K has aggregated nearly 20 AI native intelligent agents, covering multiple fields such as marketing, supply chain, human resources, finance and environmental, social and governance, all of which can be used out of it.

He stressed that in the wave of technological advancement, those who are brave enough to change themselves, constantly innovate and have independent thoughts are "changemakers".

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a communique on Oct 23, with an urge to markedly boost China's scientific and technological capabilities by the year 2035. Yin Hejun, minister of science and technology, said on Oct 24 that for this end, the "AI+" initiative will be fully implemented to empower all industries across the board.

Experts say embracing intelligent transformation and developing new quality productive forces are the most powerful drive in the current era.

Xu said Kingdee, a globally recognized provider of cloud-based enterprise management software as a service solutions by serving over 7.4 million enterprises and government organizations worldwide, will better embrace AI — "said to be the greatest technological revolution in human history".

Xu said: "This AI revolution is transforming ourselves."

Founded in 1993 with multiple cloud service products, Kingdee emerged as the highest-scoring Chinese vendor at the Asia-Pacific Enterprise Resource Planning Marketscape, which was recently released by International Data Corp.

Liu Zhongwen, vice-president of Kingdee China and general manager of R&D center, said AI should not only be a tool for executing commands, but also an intelligent agent that can actively understand business goals and drive the entire process until measurable business results are achieved.

"The entire pattern has undergone a fundamental change," he said, noting that "Previously, humans were in the driver's seat and AI was copilot. Now, AI has become the dominant force and humans have become copilot. This is what intelligent agents are."

Chen Ning, chairman and CEO of Shenzhen-based Intellifusion Technologies Co Ltd — one of China's earliest AI chip developers and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market — said: "2025 will be a defining year for AI. Today we stand at the doorstep of the fourth industrial revolution, where algorithms, big models, chips and data have become a series of key elements."

He added: "It is highly likely that by 2030, humanity will fully enter the fourth industrial revolution represented by AI new quality productive forces."

Chen noted that in this context, Intellifusion has partnered with Kingdee to launch a deep integration plan called "Core Software Symbiosis", with an aim to connect with 100 Kingdee ecosystem partners by next year and promote 1,000 enterprises to complete the intelligent upgrade of "software + computing power" to AI in the next three years.

On Aug 18, Kingdee signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Kuala Lumpur with Chin Hin Group Berhad, a diversified construction industry leader in Malaysia, to deepen its global footprint.

Chiau Haw Choon, president of Chin Hin Group Berhad, said in Shanghai that while over 95 percent of businesses in Malaysia have chosen ERP systems from the United States or Europe, his group chose Kingdee as a partner due to its AI and its ecosystem.

"We have come to China and we have seen many implementation projects, and AI is the strategic driving force, representing the engine for enterprises to enter the era of intelligence," he said.

"We are eager to become a benchmark enterprise in Malaysia, making our successful example a role model for many businesses in Southeast Asia," he said.