On July 17th, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC2026) kicked off in Shanghai. Standing at a turning point in the era where the country is promoting intelligent transformation and cultivating new quality productive forces, the State Council has just approved and issued the "15th Five Year Plan for Expanding Consumption", which clearly proposes to deepen the promotion of "artificial intelligence+consumption", using intelligent technology to empower physical consumption as the core lever for expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption; The outline of the 15th Five Year Plan comprehensively deploys the implementation of the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, and the 2026 government work report further proposes to create a new form of intelligent economy. A set of top-down and layer by layer intelligent development policy system has been formed.
WAIC2026 exclusive freshly made beverage partner – Luckin Coffee.
How can private enterprises respond to the call of the times and serve the needs of the public with AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology when the national action of "Artificial Intelligence+" is implemented on the track of people's livelihood consumption? WAIC2026's exclusive freshly made beverage partner Luckin Coffee has provided the answer. At this conference, Luckin officially debuted as the "Luckin Smart Full Chain Cabin" digital intelligence exhibition hall, and for the first time, systematically released an AI driven industry blueprint for the future, presenting a full chain digital intelligence base covering "people, goods, and venues". When algorithms, computing power, and data stand behind a cup of coffee, and when private enterprises serve the daily lives of billions of consumers with intelligent means, Luckin's practice is becoming a touchable sample.
Let coffee understand consumers better
The "15th Five Year Plan for Expanding Consumption" proposes to expand the application scenarios of intelligent agents, promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence into life services, and make the digital consumption dividend accessible to the public. In the Luckin exhibition area, the AI landing scenario for ordinary consumers is the most intuitive manifestation of policy orientation.
At the WAIC2026 Luckin exhibition area, the section around "people" is particularly eye-catching. The AI agent "AI Lucky" brought by Ruixing made its debut. This intelligent assistant, which Ruixing called "Mouth for Mouth", has been fully connected to the super application ecology of Qianwen, WeChat, Alipay and so on. Users can complete the order with their mouth. Whether it's "a cup of signature coconut family" or "recommending hot, creamy coffee", AI Lucky can bring you personalized recommendations.
Luckin Coffee pop-up store.
This intelligent agent provides users with a more convenient and efficient full scene digital coffee consumption experience. The 2026 government work report clearly proposes to accelerate the promotion of the new generation of intelligent terminals and agents, and promote the evolution of artificial intelligence from a "tool" to an "intelligent agent" deeply embedded in the entire consumption process. Luckin's "AI Lucky" is the implementation of this policy orientation on the enterprise side. Luckin has over 35000 stores, with a cumulative transaction customer base exceeding 450 million. By embedding AI intelligent agents into daily consumption scenarios of tens of millions, artificial intelligence is no longer a "black technology" in the laboratory, but a daily reality accessible to thousands of households.
Not only front-end interaction, but also Luckin Coffee's data-driven product development system that combines user feedback, market analysis, launch timing, and taste trends, precisely fits the national policy orientation of "artificial intelligence+consumption" to encourage personalized and experiential consumption. With lightweight and inclusive AI services, Luckin Coffee continues to tap into the potential of mass consumption and inject small but lasting vitality into expanding domestic demand.
AI penetrates the full chain of intelligent manufacturing in the industrial chain
The comprehensive promotion of digital intelligence technology empowerment "is an important direction first explicitly proposed in the" 15th Five Year Plan "outline, and has become a key lever for promoting industrial upgrading and cultivating new quality productivity. If front-end AI interaction brings technology and consumers closer together, and a full chain intelligent system runs through raw material procurement, production baking, and global logistics, it demonstrates Luckin's deep ability to transform the physical industrial chain with AI and implement industrial intelligent transformation.
In Luckin's digitalized supply chain system, AI technology has been deeply embedded in every link from procurement, warehousing, logistics to production. From a coffee bean to a cup of coffee, AI is reshaping the operational logic of the entire industry chain. Luckin Coffee has established long-term procurement cooperation with high-quality global production areas such as Yunnan, Brazil, and Ethiopia in China, and has created a "Luckin Coffee Exclusive Coconut Island" in Indonesia, agreeing to jointly purchase approximately 1 million tons of coconut raw materials over five years. Behind these global supply chain layouts are AI driven demand forecasting and procurement decision-making systems that provide precise support. Algorithms predict consumption cycles, balance supply and demand fluctuations, reduce resource mismatches, and connect the intelligent circulation chain of "overseas raw materials to the domestic market".
On the production and manufacturing side, Luckin Coffee is located in four baking bases in Pingnan, Kunshan, Qingdao, and Xiamen (under construction), forming a collaborative supply matrix with a total production capacity of over 155000 tons in the future. It will simultaneously implement a dual wheel development model of digital intelligent manufacturing and green low-carbon, becoming a model for large-scale and intensive intelligent production in the food processing industry, echoing the national deployment to promote the digital and green transformation of the manufacturing industry.
From a green bean to a cup of coffee, AI algorithms run through every link of procurement, warehousing, processing, and distribution, completely reconstructing the extensive operation mode of the traditional beverage industry. This full chain intelligent supply chain is a true epitome of private enterprises relying on intelligent technology to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and consolidate the foundation of physical industries. When a coffee company integrates AI, it is no longer just a "coffee seller", but a pioneer of "AI+manufacturing" in the consumer goods field, which is a reflection of "creating a new form of intelligent economy" in the real economy.
Validate the commercial value of AI through economies of scale
Since its establishment, Luckin Coffee has expanded its store network to over 35000 in less than nine years. What supports this scale is not the brute force that blindly expands, but a set of thinking 'numerical intelligence brains'. In the dimension of "field", Luckin Coffee deeply integrates AI technology throughout the entire lifecycle of store location selection, construction, and operational fulfillment. Relying on big data algorithms to accurately layout the store network, coupled with standardized construction systems and other digital "black technologies", Luckin Coffee has achieved steady development with high quality and scale.
In addition, compared to the independent technology research and development of enterprises, Luckin Coffee has also built an open and collaborative AI industry ecosystem, responding to the national policy of encouraging open source collaboration of artificial intelligence and promoting the popularization of intelligent applications in various industries, leading the overall upgrading and transformation of the consumer industry.
At this year's WAIC site, Ruixing joined hands with Alibaba Cloud, Baidu AI Cloud, Feishu, Huawei Cloud, Volcano Engine, Tencent Cloud, Tiantian Smart Core, Amazon Cloud Technology (AWS) and other technology enterprises and upstream and downstream partners to publicly display the "Smart Circle" jointly created by Ruixing for the first time. Overall, the construction of Luckin Coffee's "people, goods, and market" full chain digital intelligence base and "smart ecosystem" is a typical example of the consumer sector responding to the above top-level design. It enables' artificial intelligence+consumption 'to no longer be limited to policy documents, but to be implemented as perceptible, quantifiable, and replicable business practices.
From the top-level guidance of WAIC national strategy, to the implementation and deployment of national level special plans, and to the technological practices of local private enterprises such as Luckin Coffee rooted in the front line of consumption, the intelligent development path of private consumer enterprises is clearly visible. In the future, as more physical enterprises follow the transformation of "artificial intelligence+consumption", intelligent technology will continue to unleash the potential of domestic demand, drive high-quality development with new forms of intelligent economy, and truly empower thousands of industries and benefit billions of people with digital technology. At the same time, it also provides a reference industry model for cultivating and creating new consumer formats, models, and scenarios during the 15th Five Year Plan period.
Wen/Wang Ziyang
Editor Tang Zheng
Proofreading by Liu Baoqing
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