Tangshan wanted a practical way to turn its heavy-industry base and regional policy advantages into an AI-led growth engine, but it needed shared infrastructure, talent development, data-labeling capacity, and reusable large-model tooling before local enterprises could adopt AI at scale.
Reported impact
Tangshan created a regional AI enablement backbone that accelerates enterprise adoption, grows local data and model capacity, and helps traditional industries move toward large-model-based digital transformation.
Tangshan High-tech Zone worked with Baidu AI Cloud to build an industry-oriented large-model enablement system rather than a single point application. The program combines a Baidu AI industrial park, a joint venture company, a data-labeling base, and the Phoenix Zhigu large-model enablement center so local enterprises can access tooling, talent, and implementation support in one place. Qianfan's model-development and application-development capabilities act as the public service engine for local innovation, while the broader plan links data elements, pretrained large models, and heterogeneous compute into an industrial platform that serves steel, ports, robotics, public services, and other Tangshan-specific sectors. The operating model is as much about enablement as software: local firms receive technical guidance, scenario incubation, and access to shared infrastructure so they can move from interest in AI to actual large-model applications without assembling every capability on their own.
Industry data and labeling resources are collected through the local enablement base, then fed into Qianfan development and application workflows. Enterprises and public-sector teams use the industrial park and Phoenix Zhigu center to build, test, and operationalize vertical large-model applications for sector-specific scenarios such as steel, ports, robotics, public services, and city operations.
More than 200 people are already working in large-model data labeling, with more than 30 ecosystem products supporting over 50 scenarios (original: 大模型数据要素标注从业人员超过200人…形成钢铁、港口大模型生态产品30余款，满足超过50余个特色行业场景的需求).
Tangshan and Baidu are jointly building an AI industry system to support both industrial digitization and AI industrialization (original: 合力建设人工智能产业体系，合力推进唐山市人工智能数字产业化与产业数字化转型发展).
The initiative includes an AI industrial park, a joint venture, a data-labeling base, and the Phoenix Zhigu large-model enablement center (original: 落地一个人工智能产业园…成立一家人工智能合资企业…建立人工智能数据标注基地…建立人工智能"凤凰智谷"大模型产业赋能中心).
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