The city’s 2025-2028 plan targets 1,000 new AI OPC businesses, more than 10,000 people in its OPC ecosystem and over 50 municipal-level OPC communities by 2028. Suzhou is treating solo AI businesses as economic policySuzhou formalised its approach in December 2025 with an AI OPC development plan covering 2025 to 2028. The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey found that 84% of respondents were using or planning to use AI tools. An accountant, teacher or hotel operator may understand a narrow operational problem better than a general software company. This model could support markets that are too narrow for a large software company but large enough to sustain a small operator.