China AI policy

Obligations: Companies must comply with new evaluation standards for token factories, focusing on core technical metrics like model adaptation capacity and energy efficiency. • Opportunities: Firms with leading token factories can receive government support. Companies involved in model technology iteration, chip adaptation, and overseas service development can tap into new market opportunities. • Deadlines: The plan is set for implementation from 2026 to 2028, with specific milestones for building factories, launching platforms, and achieving technology breakthroughs.

Obligations: Companies must adopt the Lanyun Yuan Sheng Dai tool for efficient and accurate pre-listing compliance checks, ensuring all key fields across documents are consistent and compliant with regulations like the Advertising Law.

Obligations: Content creators must ensure their audio content does not infringe on others' voice rights. • Opportunities: Platforms like Douyin offer a structured way to report and resolve voice-related disputes, improving user trust. • Deadlines: Users can now report suspected infringements through the new portal, though specific deadlines for resolution are not mentioned.

Obligations: Companies must exercise caution when using AI tools, not blindly trust or grant permissions to unknown AI services. They must set clear behavioral boundaries and strict permissions for AI agents, not casually open internet access or content editing rights.

Obligations: Companies operating in South Korea must comply with the government's directive to accelerate AI research and applications, while strengthening risk prevention measures for deepfakes, cyberattacks, and privacy. • Opportunities: South Korea's continued push for AI development presents opportunities for companies to participate in AI research, development, and application projects, especially in the semiconductor and hardware sectors. • Deadlines: The government plans to soon announce the next phase of its autonomous AI foundational model plan, creating a timeline for companies to prepare for potential new regulations or funding opportunities.

Obligations: Content creators must use the self-declaration mechanism to mark content sources. Companies deploying AI-generated content must ensure traceability. Users must adhere to rational and friendly expression guidelines, and avoid online harassment.

Obligations: Companies in the electronics manufacturing sector must align their R&D and production strategies with the plan's goals, particularly in developing advanced chips and promoting domestic operating systems.

Obligations: Automotive companies must establish a comprehensive software quality and safety management system and implement 10 key quality assurance activities within the specified timeframe.

Obligations: Companies developing smart home products must comply with new evaluation standards and interoperability requirements. Financial institutions must develop and offer specific consumer finance products for smart home purchases. • Opportunities: Companies can tap into government-supported consumer finance products and subsidies for smart home upgrades. The plan creates a market for new smart home products and services, especially in the aging-friendly sector. • Deadlines: The plan is already in effect, but companies should prepare for compliance with new standards and product requirements as they are implemented.

Obligations: Companies must comply with the platform's requirements for data reporting and resource registration to ensure accurate national computing power statistics.

The government will support the promotion of new energy vehicles and green smart home appliances in rural areas, providing market opportunities for related enterprises.

Obligations: Software companies are required to participate in the initiative, develop intelligent software products, and cooperate with terminal manufacturers for joint innovation. • Opportunities: Companies can benefit from government funding and support to develop new intelligent software products and participate in the creation of benchmark applications. • Deadlines: By 2028, the initiative aims to cover 20,000 large-scale software enterprises and create 100 benchmark applications.

Obligations: Companies participating in the IIFAA working group must contribute to the development of a unified standard for AI agent identity, ensuring compliance with emerging trust frameworks.

Obligations: Software companies are required to adapt their workforce to new roles and skills, such as front-line deployment engineers (FDEs) and new job titles like 'Generative AI System Application Operator'.

Obligations: Companies engaged in geological exploration are encouraged to adopt this system for enhanced efficiency and accuracy. • Opportunities: Early adopters can gain a competitive advantage in geological surveying and resource discovery. • Deadlines: No specific deadlines mentioned, but companies should plan for integration and training.

Obligations: Software enterprises are encouraged to participate in the 'AI + Software' initiative, with a target of 20,000 enterprises to be covered by 2028. They are also required to apply intelligent programming tools and conduct software intelligence upgrades. • Opportunities: The plan provides funding and policy support for software companies to innovate and implement intelligent programming tools and agent software. It also promotes the development of new software products and services in the AI field. • Deadlines: The plan sets a goal for 2028, with specific targets for the number of enterprises covered and the implementation of key software intelligent upgrades.

Companies should monitor and participate in the development of embodied-intelligence data standards to meet future regulatory requirements

Obligations: Companies expanding into ASEAN from China must align their strategies with China Unicom's 'Fifteenth Five-Year' investment plans and development initiatives.

Obligations: Companies must ensure their fuel cell electric vehicles meet the new hydrogen emission rate limit and integrate mandatory hydrogen refueling communication functions for 70MPa tanks to pass the revised safety standard.

Lists 11 new professions and 23 new job types, covering digital and green professions.

Promote the large-scale application of intelligent terminal technologies

Companies should pay attention to investment and collaboration opportunities in the biotechnology and life sciences field by the Hong Kong government.

Provides service for unscrambling fraud methods and risk judgment

Enhance the development level of computing power facilities

Clarifies the judgment rules for infringement behaviors such as AI face change and big data discrimination.

For companies: Large-scale application of eSIM technology, development of offline communication technology, standardized process for new business filing.

Offers AI intelligent question and answer to help users identify scam risks.

Provide low-cost computing power support for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Obligations: Companies must comply with the classification and grading system, ensure content is properly labeled, and strictly follow platform requirements for portrait and voice authorization.

Technical innate fragility is difficult to eliminate, affecting output stability and reliability.