ChinaEnergy and utilities2024 – ongoing

China Huaneng Group

DeepSeek procurement-review assistant

Huaneng reported 50% higher manual-review efficiency after adding AI to procurement reviews

WorkingCompany's own claimOfficial ↗

Problem

Procurement specialists extracted information from lengthy bids and entered it into comparison tables. Incomplete extraction and differences in expert judgment complicated reviews.

Approach

Huaneng's tendering subsidiary developed a procurement model using historical bids and procurement regulations. It integrated DeepSeek into its procurement platform in March 2025, supporting compliance checks and evaluation reports.

Results

50%increase in manual-review efficiency reported by HuanengCompany's own claim[1]

90%key-indicator validation accuracy reported by HuanengCompany's own claim[1]

Takeaway

The company reported gains in document review; it did not establish whether procurement decisions became more accurate.

Sources

奋勇登高“开门红”丨AI“招采管家”上线
China Huaneng Group, official account on The Paper18 May 2025Company publication

Source summaries

[1]China Huaneng Group, official account on The Paper18 May 2025

Huaneng described production integration of DeepSeek and trials across more than 400 tender projects. It reported 90% key-indicator validation accuracy and 50% higher manual-review efficiency.

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Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026