PBOC’s Zhu Hexin Urges Deeper ‘AI Plus’ Push in Financial Sector

The significance here is less the slogan than the signal that fintech policy is being carried forward into the 15th Five-Year Plan with risk control named alongside AI empowerment — a pairing that suggests adoption will be encouraged within supervisory bounds. It matters most for domestic financial institutions and data holders whose ability to monetise financial data elements depends on how the PBOC frames the next planning cycle. The open question is how the four priorities translate into concrete data-governance and model-risk expectations.