I. Overall Requirements

Xi'an will adhere to the principle that “those responsible for managing industries and regions must also manage application scenarios” and fully implement the decisions and strategic plans of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. The city will position scenario-based innovation and opening-up as a key driver for stimulating technological innovation, empowering industrial upgrading, optimizing urban governance, attracting investment, and cultivating innovative enterprises.

Xi'an will promote the opening of scenario resources, pilot-scale testing and validation innovation, and exploration of new business models. The city will support the development of a number of comprehensive major scenarios, integrated industry-specific scenarios, and high-value targeted scenarios, establishing a development pathway of:

“Technological breakthroughs → Scenario validation → Industrial application → System upgrading”.

These efforts will accelerate the commercialization and industrialization of new technologies, products, and emerging business models. Xi'an aims to establish a new development landscape in which open scenarios drive transformation, scenario applications lead innovation, and scenario cultivation strengthens industries, creating an open, interconnected, efficient, and dynamic ecosystem for scenario innovation and large-scale application.

II. Key Tasks

(1) Leveraging scenario demands to drive technological innovation

Xi'an will support high-level innovation platforms in opening up scenario resources and collaborating with innovative enterprises to conduct joint research and development. The city will further enhance platform accessibility and encourage technology innovation centers, manufacturing innovation centers, and other platforms to establish open and shared mechanisms, providing small and medium-sized enterprises with services including technology development, product validation, and application promotion.

Through mechanisms such as the “challenge-based innovation” model (“Jiebang Guaishuai”), Xi'an will advance breakthroughs in key technologies and accelerate the demonstration and application of new technologies and products.

Enterprises will be encouraged to collaborate with universities and research institutions to establish proof-of-concept and pilot-scale testing platforms, promote industry-academia collaborative R&D, conduct real-world validation of cutting-edge technologies, and provide pilot-scale maturation services to support product commercialization.

(2) Using scenario innovation to strengthen industrial chains

Leveraging its strengths in aerospace, aviation, and the low-altitude economy, Xi'an will expand major application scenarios in fields such as integrated unmanned systems covering all airspace.

Focusing on advantageous sectors including photonics and semiconductors, the city will unlock full-chain scenario demands and develop integrated application scenarios for hard-tech industries.

Xi'an will target emerging application areas such as industrial software R&D, hydrogen energy applications, UAV inspection, and brain-computer interfaces, developing high-value targeted scenarios to accelerate the implementation, validation, and iterative upgrading of new technologies and products.

The city will strategically cultivate high-potential future industries, including hydrogen energy, nuclear fusion energy, biomanufacturing, and embodied intelligence. By using scenarios to drive technology implementation, strengthen industrial chains, and improve total factor productivity, Xi'an aims to establish a closed-loop development model of:

“Scenario launch → Technology adaptation → Pilot validation → Large-scale application → Industrial clustering.”

(3) Promoting consumption upgrading through scenario applications

With first-store and first-launch economy initiatives as a driver, Xi'an will accelerate the introduction of flagship stores and first stores of renowned domestic and international brands, organize influential new product launches and debut events, and build a nationally recognized demonstration city for first-launch economy development.

The city will support enterprises in introducing digital technologies such as XR/AR, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and virtual reality into sectors including commerce, entertainment, tourism, healthcare, and sports, creating immersive and experiential consumption scenarios.

Xi’an will accelerate innovative development and utilization of intellectual property resources, building integrated consumption scenarios combining:

"IP + Commerce + Culture + Tourism".

(4) Improving social welfare and quality of life through scenario cultivation

Xi'an will focus on achieving full-process online government services and promote the comprehensive upgrade of the "one-stop online service" system.

The city will develop Xi'an-specific integrated service scenarios around key areas such as business registration, public services, cultural tourism, and commercial activities, creating streamlined "one matter, one process" solutions.

Xi'an will encourage cooperation between public hospitals and artificial intelligence enterprises in areas such as AI-assisted diagnosis and treatment. The city will build high-quality health communities and community-based embedded service scenarios to accelerate the implementation of smart healthcare applications.

The city will further enhance its "one integrated network for urban governance" system, strengthen common supporting platforms such as the City Information Modeling (CIM) platform and the Internet of Things (IoT) sensing data aggregation platform, and promote the implementation of digital scenarios in key areas including smart urban management, smart housing and construction, and smart environmental protection.

Xi'an will upgrade intelligent sensing terminals for municipal public facilities, enhance urban monitoring capabilities, and coordinate the development of a multi-modal integrated urban large-scale AI model. These efforts will enrich application scenarios and accelerate the deployment of intelligent applications in areas such as urban governance and public services.