In February 2025, Shenzhen began to offer DeepSeek model services on its government cloud to all districts and departments. Guangzhou deployed DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 on its government network. Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Foshan, Ganzhou and Linyi connected to DeepSeek one after another.
By February 25, China News Service counted more than 12 provincial-level government bodies that had announced DeepSeek applications, and it called the count incomplete.