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China’s $295 Billion Ambitions for AI Will Drive up Domestic High-Tech Stocks 

Дата публикации: 30-06-2026 13:42:00

Beijing’s AI data center strategy will purposefully exclude foreign firms – providing a shot in the arm for domestic companies.

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In the midst of an artificial intelligence space race, China’s cutting-edge data center buildout highlights a nation that’s preparing for market dominance. But what does it mean for the Asian powerhouse’s pure-play AI stocks? 

Bloomberg has reported on an ambitious AI data center strategy that’s being planned in Beijing, which would see around 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) allocated to build out a nationwide infrastructure over the next five years. Led by the National Development and Reform Commission, the buildout is expected to link computing facilities nationwide into an integrated network. 

Critically, the plans will focus largely on using local suppliers to provide the technology required, opening the door to brand new growth opportunities for China’s artificial intelligence leaders. That could have a lasting impact on domestic tech stocks. 

The initiative would lean heavily on China Mobile and China Telecom, both of which would take on the primary responsibility for running the facilities and maintaining connectivity between them. 

Beyond that, at least 80 percent of the hardware and software, including AI chips, that will be used within the data centers will come from Chinese vendors, with private firms like Huawei Technologies expected to become a key beneficiary of the project. This would leave global artificial intelligence giants like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) out of the loop. 

Chinese AI firms have been picking up momentum in recent months. The launch of Z.ai’s open source GLM-5.2 model has won global attention for its agentic capabilities that are comparable to Anthropic’s Opus4.8. As a result, there has been much discussion about the rate at which China is catching up with their resource-rich U.S. peers in the AI race. Many analysts look at China’s AI ascendency as a matter of “when” rather than “if.” 

The launch of Beijing’s ambitious data center plans can also become a landmark moment as Chinese AI stocks look to close the gap on Wall Street’s whirlwind high-tech valuations. 

“Zhipu is an example of one of China’s most high-potential AI stocks, having recently surpassed HK$1 trillion in value on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which is around $128 billion,” noted Vsevolod Smirnov, head of marketing at Just2Trade. “The problem is that the stock is still only a fraction of the value of U.S. artificial intelligence leaders like Nvidia and Alphabet, both of which operate at a market cap in excess of $4 trillion.”

“It will be through government AI infrastructure projects that China’s AI leaders can finally play catch-up with the whirlwind cash flows of their U.S. rivals and match them for spending.” 

Which stocks could benefit? China’s fledgling collection of “AI tigers” could be the clearest beneficiaries of a growing domestic infrastructure. 

Zhipu’s momentum shows that a brightening outlook for Chinese AI can help to fuel investor confidence. In its first quarter of reporting, the agentic artificial intelligence leader posted a 131.9 percent year-on-year increase in revenue, posting annual gains of 724.33 million yuan ($104.8 million). 

Citi analysts expect that the beneficiaries of China’s AI infrastructure spending will be far-reaching. Two stocks have been highlighted for their close proximity to the prospective data center buildout, with GDS Holdings and Vnet Group – both data center infrastructure providers – likely to be well-positioned for further growth. Both companies are already logging high volumes of new bookings, 200MW in the case of GDS and more than 500MW for Vnet. 

The stocks are set to benefit long into the future based on increasing demand. After all, AI appears to be all-encompassing throughout China’s plans for the future. In the updated blueprint for the nation’s latest Five-Year Plan, the term “AI” was mentioned more than 50 times throughout 141 pages, as well as an extensive “AI+ action plan.” 

With this in mind, we’re set to see impacts that span different industries on a large scale, creating opportunities for AI-focused beneficiaries throughout sectors. For example, a data center buildout will require enormous investments in China’s power and energy sector. Between necessary upgrades to the electricity grid, computing, and communication nationwide, the total cost of the Beijing data center project could reach 5 trillion yuan ($735 billion).

Evidence points to a prosperous era for Chinese AI stocks, with data center infrastructure projects expected to prop up the nation’s innovators as the AI gap continues to be closed against U.S. rivals. 

However, investors should be prepared for some volatility. In recent days, a period of profit-taking throughout Asian tech markets drove steep losses for indexes like South Korea’s Kospi, which fell 8 percent.

The task of catching up with the U.S. AI behemoth will be far from smooth, but China’s plans for a $295 billion AI infrastructure represent the cornerstone that can help more industry stocks to realize their potential. 

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