China AI Pulse

China’s NDRC held back-to-back meetings urging faster delivery of 109 major projects and the six networks initiative to counter falling fixed-asset...

China's AI competition is now a margin and operating-model problem: providers cut prices to win users while facing rising costs for compute, chips,...

Beijing views open-weight models as a vehicle to place China at the center of international AI regulation, hoping WAICO emerges as the leading global platform for governing the technology.

Does China’s AIIDPZ policy causally improve urban green total factor productivity?

Evidence: Staggered DID on 282 cities (2011–2023) shows...

China's Ministry of Transport action plan for "AI + transportation" identifies 860 scenarios across 10 areas and 41 initial use cases, moving AI into...

Traditional full-stack autonomy clashes with global AI value chains, making self-sufficiency unrealistic for most nations. A more workable approach...

China's reported signing of the Carolina Principles marks a rare public alignment with the US on AI governance architecture, favoring existing sector...

China's five-year plan for 'little giants' and emerging SMEs explicitly ties job creation, technological self-reliance, and industrial policy by...

Chinese open-weight models are prompting US leaders to advocate mandatory safety testing for all AI systems, open or closed.

• Policy focus: Industry...

中国国家AI基金投入14亿元人民币，作为Kling 7月初始融资框架的收官部分。这笔资金凸显国家资本对生成式视频AI初创公司的直接参与。

China is not choosing between innovation and restraint. Instead, it regulates to enable scaling through a layered system that pairs industrial policy...

The “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” released in 2017 explicitly proposed that AITI be regarded as a national strategic priority.

Chinese regulators forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, prompting the AI startup to resume independent operations and require...

• Seven departments released an action plan making digitalization and AI a key driver for special education through 2030.
• It introduces...

China's MIIT aims to cultivate at least 3,000 AI application service providers by 2027, starting with over 2,000 by end-2026, to create a national...

中国“AI+”计划已从技术展示转向制度与流程变革。 在医疗领域，人口压力下，AI应用需解决工作流程重构、监管适配等系统性政策问题，才能实现长期产业价值。

• Paid licensing of faces for AI microdramas and ads is rising, with 95% of early 2026 releases using AI somewhere in production.
• Once licensed, a...

The US is shifting export controls from physical chip shipments to blocking Chinese AI firms' remote access to restricted Nvidia GB300 chips via...

China's data industry reached 6.78 trillion yuan last year, with the Big Data Expo highlighting token-based pricing and subscriptions as new...

中国提议与越南共建AI工厂，越南出土地电力，中国供设备资本与GPU系统，这被视为中国AI基础设施对外输出的早期信号。越南数据中心容量仅148MW、电网接入需2-3年，加上仅1万-1.5万GPU，落地仍依赖越南政策执行与中方实际投入，当前仅停留在论坛谅解备忘录阶段。