Embodied AI First Named in the Government Work Report

China's 2025 annual Government Work Report named embodied AI for the first time as an industry to cultivate.

On March 5, 2025, Premier Qiang Li delivered the Government Work Report at the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress. In the section on emerging and future industries within the 2025 work plan, it stated: cultivate future industries such as bio-manufacturing, quantum technology, embodied AI, and 6G. This was the first time the term “embodied AI” appeared in a Government Work Report. The report is the State Council's annual policy statement to the National People's Congress, delivered each year at the “Two Sessions”; being named in it signals that embodied AI has been formally designated a national-level industrial priority. Since then, various localities have rolled out dedicated policies, set up industry funds, and built data-collection training grounds, and the industry commonly treats this moment as the point at which embodied AI was formally sanctioned at the national level in China.

ExampleThe report's exact wording: “cultivate future industries such as bio-manufacturing, quantum technology, embodied AI, and 6G.”

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Embodied AI in the 2025 Government Work Report

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Sources

政府工作报告（2025 年 3 月 5 日，中国政府网） (Chinese)

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2025-03