DeepSeek drives AI adoption by local Chinese governments from Shenzhen to Kunshan

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.

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.