A growing number of local governments in China are rushing to adopt DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models to enhance administration and governance, reflecting the rising adoption of AI in lower levels of public management.
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Authorities in Longgang district in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, have utilised DeepSeek’s latest model to improve the governance of its 4 million residents living in an area larger than Singapore. It is the first Chinese district government to widely embrace the start-up’s low-cost, high-performance reasoning model.
DeepSeek’s R1 model, released last month, improved governance efficiency on multiple fronts since its adoption on February 8, officials said. The Longgang government had worked overtime to deploy the model on Huawei Technologies’ Ascend servers, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper.
Authorities “boldly” fed government data into the model, the local official in charge of the deployment was quoted as saying.
An AI assistant for word processing has helped save time in drafting and proofreading documents, according to a report on the Longgang government website. In the past, it usually took a government official four to five minutes to proofread 1,000 Chinese characters, but DeepSeek’s model could achieve that “in seconds”, the report said.
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