China’s MIIT Issues AI ‘Industry Navigation Map’ Covering Over 1,000 Scenarios

The significance lies less in the scenario count than in the framing: Beijing is steering AI toward industrial deployment rather than consumer applications, with manufacturing named as the priority. That positions the ministry as a demand-side coordinator, effectively mapping where state-backed compute and models are expected to land. For crypto and RWA markets, the relevant thread is whether this accelerates tokenized industrial data, supply-chain assets, or compute marketplaces — or bypasses them entirely in favor of centralized platforms. Whether private AI firms align with the map, or treat it as one signal among many, is the open question.