[Eight departments including the central bank: guide financial institutions to comprehensively use diversified tools such as credit, bonds, and equity to support the development of "artificial intelligence + software"] On September 28, eight departments including the People's Bank of China jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Financial Support for Expansion and Quality Improvement of the Service Industry", which proposed to empower the innovative development of software and information technology services. Guide financial institutions to comprehensively use diversified tools such as credit, bonds, and equity to support the development of "artificial intelligence + software", promote innovative breakthroughs in intelligent programming tools and industrial software, build basic software ecosystems and open source communities, and apply smart audio-visual system ecological scenarios, and develop new business formats such as intelligence as a service and models as a service. Improve the financial guarantee for digital transformation services in the manufacturing industry and support the development of digital transformation service providers in the manufacturing industry. Actively meet the financing needs in areas such as artificial intelligence technology research and development, industry high-quality data set construction, application scenario expansion, and industrial ecological cultivation. Encourage financial institutions to provide medium and long-term financing for the construction of digital infrastructure such as information transmission, data and information technology, and strengthen financial support for national computing power layout, edge computing power construction, intelligent computing cloud service system, etc.