Amid intensifying geopolitical competition in high-tech sectors, China unveiled on Wednesday a plan to open some of its major scientific projects and facilities to the world, calling for the building of a "global technology community".
Speaking at the opening of the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing, Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang said the nation is willing to work with all parties to jointly build a "global technology community" and a more open and inclusive innovation network.
China will carry out broader and more diverse technological cooperation, enhance joint efforts in fundamental and frontier research and promote the application of emerging technologies, in order to empower the economic and social development of all countries, he said.
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Ding called on countries to properly address potential regulatory conflicts, social risks and ethical challenges arising from technological development, in order to promote more equitable and responsible governance of technology.
Sergio Mujica, secretary-general of the International Organization for Standardization, said at the forum that cross-sector collaboration is essential for advancing "inclusive, sustainable and widely accessible innovation" in a rapidly changing digital world.
This year's Zhongguancun Forum, which runs through Sunday, is themed "Full Integration Between Technological and Industrial Innovation". It has attracted participants from more than 100 countries and regions, underscoring China's role as an anchor of global tech dialogue.
On the opening day, China released its action plan for international cooperation in open science, pledging to make 10 large-scale projects and facilities, including its deep-space monitoring systems, particle observatories and fusion devices, accessible to global researchers.
Among these is the Chinese Meridian Project, the only national facility in China dedicated to space environment monitoring. It has established the world's most extensive ground-based network for monitoring space and, to date, it has served 267 organizations across 18 countries, including Germany and Brazil.
China's emphasis on open collaboration, which was praised by officials and industry insiders at the forum, also signals an attempt to shape global norms around artificial intelligence development. The nation is not just rapidly expanding the scope of AI applications, but also attempting to figure out how models can be built, shared and applied in industrial settings.
Speaking on the sidelines of the forum, Yang Zhilin, founder of Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI, said that Chinese enterprises are increasingly positioning themselves as drivers of structural change in the AI ecosystem — a shift he described as both an opportunity and a defining strategy for the nation.
"China's willingness to openly share large models and technological breakthroughs could accelerate global innovation while giving it an edge over the closed tech ecosystems of other countries," Yang said.
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Data from aggregation platform OpenRouter shows that Chinese AI models have surpassed those of the United States in terms of global usage for three consecutive weeks.
Among the top 10 AI models by usage, Chinese models recorded a total of 7.359 trillion tokens — fundamental units of data that AI language models process — last week, up 56.9 percent from the previous week, showing a further acceleration in growth. In contrast, AI models of the US recorded 3.536 trillion tokens.
Speaking at the forum, Wang Binying, deputy director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, said that China is the first country to surpass 5 million granted domestic invention patents, and it accounts for more than 40 percent of global generative AI patent filings.
"China's innovation track record has been remarkable," Wang added.
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