Hohhot announced a series of high-profile agreements worth a total of 20 billion yuan ($2.79 billion) at the 2025 Green Computing Power (Artificial Intelligence) Conference.

The signings included cooperation deals between the Inner Mongolia autonomous region people's government and Beijing Baidu Netcom, the Beijing–Inner Mongolia Data Industry Collaboration, Lenovo's "City Super Intelligent Body" project, and the Wusuo autonomous driving charging robot.

The 2025 Green Computing Power (Artificial Intelligence) Conference is held in Hohhot on July 12. [Photo/Hohhot Convergence Media]

The projects span AI R&D, regional data collaboration, intelligent equipment manufacturing, and green data center construction, strengthening Hohhot's digital economy ecosystem. The city is accelerating the development of a "green computing–AI–smart application" industrial chain as part of China's "channel computing resources from China's eastern regions to western regions" strategy, utilizing its location, climate, green energy, network capacity, computing power, policies, and talent.

By the end of this year, Hohhot expects computing capacity to exceed 120,000 Petaflops, with at least seven large-scale AI clusters in operation. In Helingeer New District, intelligent manufacturing lines and AI platforms are already boosting efficiency across the dairy, pharmaceutical, and biotech sectors.

AI is also enhancing public services, with "AI Xiaosai", a digital government assistant in Saihan district, having served over 2,000 residents with a 98 percent satisfaction rate. Hohhot is deploying large models in 91 government agencies and integrating 353 digital systems into its city brain platform, which now manages 14.7 billion data records.