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The Chinese government has elevated employment to a macroeconomic priority, issuing a comprehensive strategy that explicitly links job creation to the country’s rapid advancement in artificial intelligence. The State Council’s new “employment-first” plan for the 2026–2030 period outlines a framework for managing the labor market transition as automation and AI technologies reshape the economy.
Thirty days before the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai held a countdown press conference that underscored the scale of what the city is preparing to host.
China is deploying artificial intelligence faster and more broadly than any other country in the world, but it is doing so against a backdrop of public trust that lags behind many of the nations it is outpacing.
China’s economy is currently characterized by a stark and growing divergence. On one hand, the artificial intelligence sector is experiencing explosive growth, fueled by massive state and private investment, rapid technological advancements, and a surge in demand for AI-related hardware.
The integration of artificial intelligence into China’s educational system has reached a significant scale, with AI-powered surveillance cameras reportedly installed in a large share of the country’s secondary schools.
In a sweeping transformation of its higher education system, China has eliminated 12,200 undergraduate degree programs over the past five years.
The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence across China’s economy has triggered a sharp increase in related legal disputes, exposing significant gaps in the country’s current regulatory framework.
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, which opened on June 12, has taken a step that would have been unthinkable at the same event two years ago, according to Variety: it launched a dedicated Technology Creation and Fabrication Unit and signed formal cooperation agreements with AI and data firms including KPS, the Institute of Language…
Rokid, the Hangzhou-based augmented reality startup that has staked its identity on putting a display screen in front of users’ eyes, is facing a public relations crisis that strikes at the heart of that very proposition.
Despite pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence infrastructure and development, China’s AI boom is failing to deliver the broad economic lift that policymakers had hoped for, prompting analysts to question the structural bottlenecks hindering the technology’s impact.
The euphoria surrounding China’s artificial intelligence sector is facing a harsh reality check in the financial markets.
As the dust settles on China’s grueling 2026 national college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, the country’s technology giants are fiercely competing for the attention of the 13.4 million students who sat the test.
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence across China’s corporate landscape is beginning to manifest in a tangible and controversial workforce trend: “quiet” layoffs. As companies adopt advanced AI agents and automation tools to boost productivity, they are simultaneously navigating strict national labor regulations by executing gradual, unannounced headcount reductions.
For decades, the pilgrimage route for ambitious tech founders, investors, and engineers led to Silicon Valley. Now, a growing number of them are flying to Shanghai, Hangzhou, or Shenzhen instead.
Eight Ministries Launch a Nationwide Graduate Jobs Campaign China is facing a significant demographic and economic challenge as a record 12.7 million students prepare to graduate from universities this summer.
The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship theoretical journal, Qiushi, has published the full text of a speech by President Xi Jinping that marks a significant shift in the leadership’s rhetoric regarding artificial intelligence (the full speech in Chinese can be found here).
China’s grueling National College Entrance Examination, known as the gaokao, is set to begin with unprecedented levels of technological security. As 12.9 million students prepare to compete for limited university placements, education authorities across multiple provinces are deploying advanced artificial intelligence systems to monitor exam halls and detect cheating in real time.
In a coordinated effort to clean up the digital information ecosystem, five major Chinese regulatory authorities have issued comprehensive new rules targeting Multi-Channel Network (MCN) institutions.
China’s state-backed media apparatus is making a massive financial commitment to integrate artificial intelligence into its ideological messaging. Xinhuanet, the online platform of the official Xinhua News Agency, has announced plans to invest over 1.1 billion yuan ($162.38 million) in developing an “authoritative” AI agent.
A quiet but unsettling ritual is taking hold inside China’s most competitive technology companies. Before engineers, analysts, and product managers walk out the door for the last time, they are increasingly being asked, or expected, to do something unprecedented: spend their final days on the job building an AI replica of themselves.
