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Policy & Regulation

Monday, September 14, 2026

CHIPS & COMPUTEPOLICY
Shanghai Starts the Mingzhu Plan for AI Compute in Orbit
Shanghai has launched the Mingzhu Plan, a long-term effort to develop a space-based computing constellation that organizers say could eventually reach gigawatt scale.

CHIPS & COMPUTE BIG TECH
China Mobile Launches Trusted AI Computing for Sensitive Data
China Mobile has introduced a product called AI Trusted Computing, or AITC, as Chinese companies look for ways to run AI workloads on sensitive data without treating security as an afterthought. The launch took place on September 12 at the 2026 China Computing Power Conference in Langfang.

POLICYMARKETS
China Sets a 2028 Target for AI Software and Agent Adoption
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued an “AI + Software” Special Action Implementation Plan that puts explicit milestones around the use of artificial intelligence in the country’s software sector.

POLICYAPPLIED AI
China Raises the IPO Bar for Humanoid-Robot Startups
China’s humanoid-robot sector has attracted capital, founders, and public-market attention at an exceptional pace. Now it may face a stricter test before reaching an IPO. Chinese regulators have reportedly given informal guidance to some banks and companies that raises the approval threshold for humanoid-robot listings after Unitree Robotics’ volatile market debut, according to Reuters.

POLICYTALENT
Beijing Starts Delivering Its AI Training Offer to Developing Countries
China’s AI diplomacy is moving from declarations toward a more practical format. A six-day Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building Workshop opened in Beijing on September 7, bringing senior officials and core AI policymakers from 37 Global South countries to China for lectures, site visits, and discussions about governance and applications.
POLICYSOCIETY
China Puts AI Rules Into Its New Intellectual Property Plan
China has placed artificial intelligence, algorithms, and AI-generated content inside its next national intellectual-property agenda. China’s 2026–2030 intellectual-property blueprint says the country will update IP treatment for emerging technologies while modernizing copyright policy for a digital economy. The policy direction was outlined in a September 8 Xinhua report carried by People’s Daily Online.
CHIPS & COMPUTEPOLICY
China Maps a 9,800-EFLOPS AI Compute Target for 2030
China has put a concrete number behind its next phase of AI infrastructure growth. A new Ministry of Industry and Information Technology plan sets 2030 capacity at 9,800 EFLOPS, a level that would require a sharp expansion from the 2,185 EFLOPS recorded at the end of June.

CHIPS & COMPUTEPOLICY
China Draws a 2030 Road Map for AI Infrastructure
China has set a 2030 target of 9,800 EFLOPS of intelligent-computing capacity and 3.8 trillion yuan in cumulative information-infrastructure investment, giving its AI buildout a more explicit policy horizon.
POLICYSOCIETY
China’s Top Court Sets New Lines for AI Disputes
China’s Supreme People’s Court has issued guidance for cases involving deepfakes, voice cloning, algorithmic price discrimination, and AI-generated false information, placing judicial remedies alongside the country’s growing set of AI rules. Xinhua reported that the guidance was released on September 7 and addresses how courts should handle disputes created by increasingly capable AI systems.

POLICYMARKETS
China Targets 10,000 AI Small Businesses by 2028
China is putting small and medium-sized enterprises at the center of its next industrial AI push.

GEOPOLITICSPOLICY
U.S. and China Set a Mid-September AI Safety Dialogue
Washington and Beijing are reportedly preparing their first official bilateral discussions devoted entirely to artificial-intelligence safety since Donald Trump returned to the White House. Reuters reportes that the sides were planning a mid-September dialogue as frontier models and autonomous agents raise concerns about cyberattacks and cross-border crises. The talks are not confirmed. A U.S.

GEOPOLITICSPOLICY
Chinese Study Finds PLA AI Still Centered on Support Tasks
A paper by Chinese researchers affiliated with the People’s Armed Police offers an unusually cautious public assessment of China’s military artificial intelligence.
GEOPOLITICSPOLICY
AI Guardrails Become a Fault Line in the U.S.-China Race
At a G20 technology ministerial held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this week, the dispute over artificial intelligence regulation became less a technical question than a contest over national speed.

POLICYSOCIETY
China Proposes AI Public Goods for Chemical Safety
China has used an international workshop in Hangzhou to frame artificial intelligence as a potential public good for chemical safety and for implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
POLICYSOCIETY
China’s AI Content Crackdown Reaches New Scale
China’s latest campaign against misuse of artificial intelligence has produced a set of enforcement figures that show how quickly content moderation has become part of the country’s AI rollout.

POLICYGEOPOLITICS
Xi Uses the SCO Summit to Renew China’s AI Diplomacy
Xi Jinping has proposed an international cooperation center for AI applications for members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, placing artificial intelligence alongside development, security, and regional connectivity in China’s diplomacy toward Eurasian and Global South partners. The proposal came at the SCO heads-of-state meeting in Bishkek on September 1.
POLICYGEOPOLITICS
New Calls Test the Window for U.S.-China AI Safety Talks
A new public call for U.S.-China cooperation on AI safety is testing whether leaders can turn a shared concern about advanced systems into a workable diplomatic channel.
POLICYAPPLIED AI
China Puts AI at the Center of Transportation Planning
China’s transportation authorities are turning the broad idea of “AI plus transportation” into a large list of practical tests across roads, railways, waterways, aviation, ports, and postal networks.
POLICYGEOPOLITICS
China’s Defense Law Brings AI and Drones Into Mobilization Planning
China has revised its National Defense Mobilization Law for the first time in 16 years, creating a new legal frame for bringing advanced technology, specialized talent, and market entities into national-defense preparations.

POLICYSOCIETY
China’s AI Customer-Service Standard Takes Effect With New Handoff Safeguards
China’s first national standard focused on the relationship between human and intelligent customer service took effect on September 1. The official National Standard Information Public Service Platform lists GB/T 47746-2026 as the national standard governing the coordination of live and intelligent customer-support channels, released on May 25 and effective from September 1.