China has proposed a global action plan to govern artificial intelligence, only a few days after the United States has unveiled its own plan aimed at promoting the American domination of the rapidly growing field which has become a key negotiation issue in commercial talks between economic powers.
Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang unveiled China’s vision for future AI surveillance at the AI World Conference (Silence), an annual gathering in Shanghai of Tech Titans of more than 40 countries.
“Overall, AI global governance is still fragmented. Countries have large differences, in particular in terms of areas such as regulatory concepts, institutional rules “,” said Li in his speech on Saturday. “We must strengthen coordination to form a global IA governance framework which has a broad consensus as soon as possible.”
Li’s remarks came only a few days after the Trump administration unveiled its 28 -page AI action planwhich aims to eliminate “bureaucratic administrative formalities” and to establish American domination in the sector.
Although Li did not refer directly to the United States in his speech, he alluded to the current trade tensions between the two superpowers, which include American restrictions on advanced semiconductor exports-a vital component for food and the formation of AI, which currently leads to a shortage in China.
“The key resources and capacities are concentrated in a few countries and a few companies”, ” said Li in his speech on Saturday. “If we are engaging in the technological monopoly, controls and restrictions, AI will become an exclusive game for a small number of countries and businesses.”
AI fleas have become a key negotiation tool between the United States and China in commercial negotiations, which continued this week with a meeting in Stockholm. Before the last series of talks, the two countries seemed to make concessions, Washington having raised his ban on sales of a NVIDIA AI chip in China, and Beijing by suspending his antitrust investigation into the American chemical company Dupont.
Speaking on Sunday from Scotland, Trump said that the United States was “very close to an agreement with China”, but had not offered any other details. The current deadline for an agreement expired on August 12.
China has not hesitated to promote its AI ambitions: with more than 5,000 AI companiesand a basic AI industry evaluated at 600 billion yuan ($ 84 billion) In April 2025, the nation was entirely on its technological rivalry with the United States.
This wave is fueled by huge expenses from the government and the private sector. Between 2013 and 2023, state capital companies invested a $ 209 billion estimated in companies related to AI, according to research Posted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private reflection group based in Massachusetts, and this year, public sector spending should be in the lead 400 billion yuan ($ 56 billion).
It is always a fraction of what the United States spends – private investment of AI in the United States reached $ 109.1 billion in 2024, approximately $ 12 times in China – but China’s commitment to the IA breed is obvious in other respects. Since 2017, China has published more patents for inventions generating AI each year than all other combined countries, According to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization.
All this investment is Distribute the gap Between the United States and China in the AI breed.
Earlier this year, the launch of the one -year Chinese startup, the new Deepseek AI R1 model, caused chaos to Wall Street and quickly demonstrated the technical capacities of China in troubleshoot Meta and Anthropic models. It would have been developed for only $ 5.6 million, a fraction of the cost spent to manufacture other models like Chatgpt (more than $ 100 million) and Gemini (Nearly $ 200 million.)
More recently, another Kimi K2 model from Startup Moshot published earlier this month also sent undulations to the AI community for its costs and capacities that surpass certain Google and Openai models.
The rapid development of the Chinese AI market should even break even in the coming years, offering a return on investment of 52% from 2030, according to research of the financial services company Morgan Stanley.
Secretary general of AseanDr. Kao Kim Hourn, also called “robust governance“Artificial intelligence to alleviate potential threats, including disinformation, deep heads and threats of cybersecurity.
“These developments require the urgent and coordinated action of the international community to ensure that AI serves human well-being and social well-being,” he said in his speech during the conference, adding that the implementation of ATA in the ANASE could extend the rapidly growing digital economy in the region and “increase the GDP of the region from 10 to 18%”.
The former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt reiterated The call for international collaboration, explicitly calling the United States and China to work together.
“As the most important and most important economic warbles in the world, the United States and China should collaborate on these questions,” said Schmidt at Waic. “We have a direct interest in keeping the world stable, to keep the world not at war, to keep things peaceful, to make sure that we have human control of these tools.”
The other speakers understood the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, sometimes called “the godfather of the AI” and French researcher and special Envoy Anne Bouverot.
Launched by the Singaporean Think Tank Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Institute (AIII), the conference has taken place in Shanghai since its creation in 2018 And was an important platform for Chinese companies to present their technology in the world.
The event – to whom in the past has been followed by key characters from the technological industry, notably Elon Musk and Jack Ma – offers technological exhibitions, expert Keynotes and discussion panels in order to continue the research, development and governance of AI, which China hopes to play a leading role in.
Assisted by more than 800 companies, WAIC 2025 was again dominated by Chinese technological companies, notably Tencent, Alibaba, Keenon robotics supported by SoftBank and the Startup UNIDE, with appearances of several large American companies such as Tesla, Alphabet and Amazon.
Visitors explored technological innovations through 3,000 exhibitionswhich included more than 100 new debut of products. They understood New AI models of Tencent Holdings and the company based in Hong Kong Sensitive timeAlibaba’s first Smart glasses powered by AI,, New models of bipedal robot which served the popcorn from Keenon Robotics, and Robots “pets cute Since Shenzhen Startup ZTE.
The other key exhibitions of the three -day event included G1 boxing robotwho quickly caught the attention of visitors and has become a fans favorite on social networks, dancingDogs robot Developed by China Mobile and Psibot Huhjong Play Humanoid.
