Gulou District × Luculent: Jointly Drawing a New Blueprint for Manufacturing with Industrial AI
Recently, the official WeChat account "Gulou Micro-News" of the Publicity Department of the CPC Gulou District Committee in Nanjing published an article titled Gulou × Luculent: Jointly Drawing a New Blueprint for Manufacturing with Industrial AI. Focusing on government-enterprise collaboration and digital-intelligence empowerment, the article vividly showcases the pragmatic achievements of Gulou District and Luculent in deeply engaging in the industrial AI sector and jointly building a new intelligent manufacturing ecosystem. The article has attracted widespread attention and been intensively reposted and reported by a number of national media outlets, including CRI Online and Xinhuanet Jiangsu Channel.
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Keeping abreast of national guidelines, Gulou District of Nanjing has taken "application scenarios" as a key pillar to drive the development of the artificial intelligence industry. In the 2026 Action Plan for Optimizing the Business Environment released at the beginning of 2026, Gulou listed "Building Benchmark Scenarios and Aggregating Ecological Connectivity" as one of the core initiatives of the "Ten Strengths of Business Environment". It explicitly plans to promote the launch of more than 30 high-value, targeted scenarios in key fields such as artificial intelligence and green and low-carbon development, and establish the Gulou District Scenario Innovation Promotion Center, forming an ecological matrix of "Center + Testing Ground + Partners" to revitalize industries through scenario innovation.
Policies resonate with the market, and enterprises respond with solid actions. Based in Gulou District, Luculent Technology Co., Ltd., a local industrial software enterprise, is translating the grand blueprint into "new quality productive forces" on the manufacturing frontline through a series of solid industrial AI application scenarios.
AI Empowerment Transforms Traditional Industries into Smart Factories
Stepping into the smart exhibition hall of the Zhijin Smart Power Plant of State Power Investment Corporation Limited in Guizhou, the huge screen no longer displays dense and cold data streams, but clear operation trends, precise optimization suggestions and forward-looking risk early warnings sorted out by the AI system.
Here, Luculent has built an intelligent monitoring system covering five core specialties including boilers and steam turbines. For a single generator set alone, more than 1,300 mechanism models and AI algorithm models have been deployed. The system acts like a tireless "super expert", conducting all-round monitoring 24/7. It can predict the sub-health status of equipment hours in advance, effectively reducing unplanned outages; it can also automatically generate detailed operation condition reports, freeing engineers from tedious and repetitive work. More importantly, through intelligent optimization of combustion processes, ammonia injection and denitrification, the system saves the power plant millions of yuan in fuel and material costs annually. Meanwhile, a three-dimensional security system integrating video AI and personnel positioning technology enables intelligent identification and closed-loop management of safety risks, providing a solid technical guarantee for "safety first".
The smart practice of Zhijin Power Plant is just one part of Luculent's industrial AI layout. In recent years, a series of projects undertaken by Luculent, such as the Digital Safety Production Management and Control Platform for Thermal Power of State Power Investment Corporation, the New Energy Smart Operation Platform of Inner Mongolia Energy Group, and the Penetrating Safety Management and Control System of Huadian Coal Industry, have been implemented across key national industries including energy, steel and chemical engineering, forming a replicable and scalable practice path of "Industrial AI + Manufacturing".
These outstanding practices have also won high industry recognition: the company was recently awarded the title of Manufacturing Single Champion by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Its Suchang Industrial Internet Platform ranks 10th among Class A national cross-industry and cross-field platforms, and Luculent also secured the 12th place in the industrial AI sector of the "2025 Outstanding Digital Enterprise Service Provider".
Targeting Pain Points to Forge an Innovative Path in Professional Fields
Upholding professionalism as its foundation and long-termism as its principle, Luculent has made forward-looking investments in the R&D of key industrial AI technologies. It has softwareized and modeled more than 20 years of accumulated industrial knowledge and manufacturing experience, building a collaborative ecosystem of "Industrial Intelligence Platform + Large Models + Industrial AI Applications". The company provides full-chain penetrating intelligent management and control for large energy groups, and launches "small, fast, light and accurate" SaaS applications for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, effectively helping enterprises improve quality and efficiency, ensure safety and achieve green development.
"The industrial sector is highly fragmented and professional, making it an 'unexplored area' for the large-scale application of AI," said Wu Aibin, Chairman of Luculent. The company does not follow a generalized development route, but adheres to data as the foundation and scenarios as the priority, making breakthroughs first and then expanding coverage, enabling AI to truly solve real industrial problems.
To address the pain points of heterogeneous industrial production data and fragmented system barriers, Luculent has built an industrial data intelligence platform to realize standardized data governance and trusted circulation. It connects equipment IoT, production operations and industry knowledge bases, and accumulates a high-quality multi-modal "data fuel depot" that conforms to industrial mechanisms across multiple industries such as electric power, coal, steel and chemical engineering, providing precise materials for AI model training.
With sufficient "fuel", identifying the breakthrough point is crucial. Luculent targets high-value scenarios such as safety production, operation optimization, equipment operation and maintenance, and energy efficiency optimization. It drives large-scale application by making breakthroughs in single "small scenarios" in a steady and pragmatic manner. The company has developed the vertical-domain Suchang Yaoguang Industrial Large Model, incubating a "legion" of specialized and scenario-based industrial intelligent agents. It deeply integrates industrial AI with equipment diagnosis, production management and enterprise operation, assisting on-the-job personnel in consulting, guiding operation and maintenance, reviewing plans, generating reports and making scientific decisions, making the industrial AI system truly "understand needs, address concerns and solve difficulties".
Government-Enterprise Collaboration to Build an AI Highland
Luculent's innovative development is deeply rooted in the industrial soil of Gulou District, which fosters new quality productive forces. As the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Gulou District has taken the construction of a renowned algorithm district as the starting point, achieving remarkable progress in fostering the artificial intelligence industry. It has launched the "Online Computing Space" to provide computing power support for R&D, inaugurated the "Scenario Innovation Promotion Center" to pilot industrial AI applications in power plants, manufacturing and other scenarios, and introduced industry leaders such as Baidu and Volcano Engine to jointly build an industrial empowerment center. Gulou High-Tech Zone has become the only provincial "Double High-Coordination" innovation and development pilot zone in Jiangsu Province featuring artificial intelligence as its characteristic industry. Meanwhile, the district has deepened "university-enterprise-district" collaboration, introduced special talent policies to precisely introduce and cultivate high-level talents such as "AI trainers", and built a full-chain rainforest ecosystem covering algorithm R&D, scenario verification, industrial implementation and talent aggregation.
"We are implementing an 'AI All-In' strategy. Based on the industrial characteristics of Gulou District, we will empower industries through technology and co-create scenarios, using high-precision industrial AI algorithms to tackle deep-seated pain points in traditional manufacturing such as equipment operation and maintenance and energy scheduling, driving the industry to shift from 'experience-driven' to 'data-driven decision-making'," said Wu Aibin. Nurtured by multiple factors including policies, scenarios and ecology, the innovative seed of industrial AI is taking root and growing in Gulou, poised to become a towering tree driving the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
