The inaugural Futian District Government Unit AI Agent Application Innovation Competition, themed "Model Power in Futian, Intelligence Leading the Future," recently concluded with an awards ceremony and industry matchmaking event at the Hetao Science and Innovation Center. Awards were presented to 40 winning representatives from 394 competing teams, who secured first, second, third, and excellence prizes. Three outstanding projects were showcased, and nine projects for scenario-based transformation of competition outcomes signed letters of cooperation intent.
Focusing on digital-intelligent governance transformation, Futian is pioneering a new track for government AI innovation. The district has fully embraced the artificial intelligence wave with an "All in AI, All by AI, All from AI" approach. This competition was launched as part of the district's 14th Employee Skills Competition series, aiming to promote application through competition, cultivate talent through competition, and stimulate industry through competition. It directly addresses frontline operational challenges and pressing public concerns, developing lightweight, deployable, replicable, and iterable government AI applications to deeply empower the entire chain of government services, grassroots governance, and social welfare.
Launched in February 2026, the competition received 394 submissions covering dozens of high-frequency government scenarios including workplace safety, school analytics, public health, street-level industry development, and veteran services, fully demonstrating the digital innovation vitality of the district's public service workforce. To lower the barrier for public servants to develop AI, the event included over ten specialized training sessions on agent development, platform operation, and data compliance, with over 800 participants, fostering an atmosphere of learning and innovation through competition.
After multiple rounds of evaluation, 4 first-prize, 8 second-prize, 12 third-prize, and 16 excellence-prize winners were selected. Ten units were also awarded for outstanding organization for their effective coordination and remarkable participation results. This pushes government AI innovation from a stage of creative ideas and technical competition towards practical implementation and widespread reuse.
At the event, outstanding winning projects were shared. These included the "Learning Analytics Prism" from Hongling Experimental School (Xinzhou), which uses big data to identify teaching gaps and create personalized development plans; the AI Epidemic Prevention Assistant from the District Center for Disease Control, which streamlines response procedures and speeds up emergency handling; and the "Street-Community-Enterprise Chain Intelligent Response" system from Shatou Subdistrict, which integrates enterprise needs to automatically match supply with demand and generate reports. These projects, closely aligned with practical needs and demonstrating significant technical advantages, received enthusiastic applause.
The event concurrently hosted an industry matchmaking session, featuring a static exhibition area where ten leading companies, including China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) Smart City Research Institute, Today's Talent, Shenzhen Smart City Group, DBAPP Security, China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, Yaqi Information, Huazi Software, and Jiuxin Intelligent, showcased cutting-edge digital technologies and government solutions. This comprehensively displayed Futian's achievements in government AI innovation and its local industrial supporting advantages, creating an efficient platform for observation, learning, and resource对接 for all participants.
By leveraging the competition as a platform and enabling enterprise empowerment, Futian has successfully built a two-way ecosystem for converting government AI achievements. The event deeply explored the essential needs of grassroots government digitalization and precisely matched government and enterprise supply-demand resources. On-site, nine outstanding competing teams signed cooperation agreements with five high-quality enterprises, initiating nine scenario-based intelligent agent co-development projects. This achieves a two-way complementarity and mutual benefit between government innovation needs and industrial technological resources.
The signed projects cover multiple key areas including safety supervision, public services, government approvals, education and teaching, financial auditing, legal governance, and data compliance. This series of implementation projects represents an innovative measure by Futian District to promote the transformation of venues into scenarios, scenarios into products, and products into industries. It accelerates the conversion of competition innovations into tangible grassroots governance outcomes, fully activating new momentum for the industrialization and scenario-based implementation of government AI.
The event also featured a dedicated expert sharing session, where technical experts from several local tech companies gathered to provide in-depth insights on government AI technological innovation, platform construction, and implementation practices, contributing knowledge to empower Futian's government digital innovation. Presenters included Fan Yaoming, an AI Product Expert from China Unicom Shenzhen Branch, who introduced the National AI Application Pilot Base project; Fei Yuefeng, a Solutions Engineer from CETC New Smart City Research Institute, who promoted the "Ultra-Intelligent Agent Platform" shortlisted for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's 2025 Innovation Tasks; Zou Ruoqi, Director of Software Product R&D at Shenzhen Smart City Group, who shared the iCity AgenticOS urban operating system; Huang Niannian, Chairman of Shenzhen Jiuxin Software, who introduced next-generation intelligent agent solutions; and Tian Xufeng, Senior Architect at Shenzhen Today's Talent, who proposed a human-machine collaborative governance concept.
Using the competition as a catalyst, Futian District has established a complete government AI innovation cycle encompassing "training and cultivation, competition selection, demonstration and对接, signing and implementation, and全域 reuse." Moving forward, the district will continue to deepen innovative applications of government AI, persistently promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence with government services, grassroots governance, and social welfare, cultivate a "dual-skill" talent pool proficient in both professional domains and AI technology application, foster mutual empowerment between urban governance and AI industry development, and accelerate the building of a core area for a pioneering AI city.
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