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China's Global AI Governance Action Plan

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This is China's official government position on global AI governance, significant for understanding the geopolitical landscape of AI regulation and how major AI powers frame safety, sovereignty, and international cooperation norms.

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China's official AI governance framework, released at the 2025 World AI Conference, establishes principles for international cooperation treating AI as a global public good. It emphasizes national sovereignty, safety, controllability, fairness, and open cooperation, calling for coordinated action across stakeholders to advance innovation while maintaining human oversight and ethical development.

Key Points

  • Frames AI as a 'global public good' requiring international cooperation rather than unilateral control by any single nation or bloc.
  • Core governance principles include national sovereignty, safety, controllability, fairness, and open cooperation across governments and organizations.
  • Calls for establishing international AI safety standards, ensuring inclusive access, and addressing global challenges through coordinated AI deployment.
  • Emphasizes human oversight and ethical development as foundational requirements, alongside promoting cross-industry AI applications.
  • Represents China's official multilateral governance posture, positioning itself as a key actor in shaping global AI norms and institutions.

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 The 2025 World artificial intelligence (AI) Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance published Global AI Governance Action Plan on July 26. 

 Full text of the action plan:

 Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new frontier in human development. It is a key driving force of the ongoing scientific and technological revolution as well as industrial transformation, and an international public good that benefits humanity. AI presents unprecedented opportunities for development, and it also brings unprecedented risks and challenges. In the AI era, only through global solidarity can we fully unleash the potential of AI while ensuring its safety, reliability, controllability, and fairness, and ultimately deliver on the commitments outlined in the United Nations Pact for the Future and its annex: the Global Digital Compact, create an inclusive, open, sustainable, fair, safe, and secure digital and intelligent future for all.

 To this end, we hereby put forward the Global AI Governance Action Plan, calling on all parties to take concrete and effective actions in advancing global AI development and governance based on the objectives and principles of promoting AI for good and in service of humanity, respecting national sovereignty, aligning with development goals, ensuring safety and controllability, upholding fairness and inclusiveness, and fostering open cooperation.

 1. Jointly seizing the opportunities of AI. We call for the active participation and collaboration of all stakeholders, including governments, international organizations, enterprises, research institutions, social organizations, and individual citizens to accelerate the development of digital infrastructure, jointly explore cutting-edge innovations in AI technology, promote worldwide adoption and application of AI, and maximize AI’s huge po

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