China's Tianyan AI: Analyzing Future Industries

China Economic Information Service, or CEIS, has unveiled an intelligent research agent called "Tianyan." This AI tool helps analysts study emerging industries during China's 15th Five-Year Plan period. Here's the thing: Tianyan is a major achievement of CEIS' "AI + think tank" initiative. It's designed to understand, reason, and adapt, offering intelligent support for industrial decision-making. What's interesting is its core capabilities. First, it automatically maps enterprises across industrial chains, tracking 17,873 key enterprises in six strategic sectors like quantum technology and biomanufacturing. Second, it has a proprietary knowledge engine, continuously fed with first-hand research, making every assessment evidence-based. Third, an autonomous industrial assessment engine automates complex evaluations using expert capabilities. The system will serve two main uses. For government, it generates industrial profiles and regional comparisons. For investors, it flags promising early-stage and hard-tech enterprises. The bottom line: This new AI agent aims to support national strategies and industrial innovation, impacting how future industries are analyzed and understood.