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title_en: "15th Five-Year Plan for National Informatization"
title_zh: "国家信息化“十五五”规划"
abbreviation: "15th FYP Informatization Plan"
hierarchy: "regulation"
issuing_body: "Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission"
status: "effective"
source_url: "https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-10/23/c_1794509028407372.htm"
related_laws: ["ai-agent-standardization-innovation-opinion", "genai-services-interim-measures", "ai-anthropomorphic-interaction-measures", "cross-border-data-flows-provisions", "data-export-security-assessment-measures", "personal-info-standard-contract-measures", "cross-border-pi-certification-measures", "network-identity-authentication-measures", "facial-recognition-technology-application-measures", "data-foundation-system-opinions", "pipl", "dsl", "csl"]
domains: ["ai-governance", "data-security", "cross-border", "data-economy"]
url: https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/national-informatization-15th-five-year-plan/
summary: "The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission's master plan for China's digital build-out from 2026 to 2030, published October 23, 2026. It sets 12 anticipatory indicators, among them adoption of smart terminals and AI agents rising from 40% to over 90%. It organizes 25 key tasks in ten areas: three systems to build (infrastructure, cyber and IT innovation, the industry ecosystem), five levels to raise (governance, public services, digital-green coordination, regional coordination, openness), and two supports to consolidate (security; laws and standards). For compliance teams, the operative passages are near the end. Section X(1) calls for optimizing the generative AI filing mechanism, a new security risk assessment system for applications in key sectors, and assessment and filing for AI agents, on-device large models and anthropomorphic interaction services. Section X(2) commits to efficient implementation of the three data-export routes, personal information testing of smart devices, and tighter management of biometric feature information. Box 8 promises sector compliance guidelines for cross-border data, FTZ negative lists, and one-stop cross-border data service centers. Section XI(1) puts foundational AI legislation and judicial interpretations on AI and personal information on the five-year agenda. A plan creates no obligations by itself; it tells counsel which rules are coming."
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> **Source: Data Compliance China** — https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/national-informatization-15th-five-year-plan/ · English rendering and annotations by DCC; the Chinese original governs. Cite as: Data Compliance China, "15th Five-Year Plan for National Informatization", https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/national-informatization-15th-five-year-plan/
**Issued by:** Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (中央网络安全和信息化委员会).
**Drafted by:** Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, together with the relevant departments.
**Published:** October 23, 2026, on the CAC website (no document number published).

> *DCC note.* This is the successor to the 14th Five-Year Plan for National
> Informatization (2021). The release and the Office's press Q&A, both
> published the same day, add four points. First, the Office drafted the
> plan with the relevant departments under the Commission's work
> arrangements, against the 15th Five-Year Plan Outline's goal of "major
> progress" in informatization by 2030. Second, the layout is "build three
> systems, raise five levels, consolidate two supports", with 25 key tasks
> in ten areas and seven project boxes. Third, the 12 indicators are meant
> to carry on from the 14th Five-Year plan's indicators. Fourth, the Office
> will implement it through coordination, funding, talent, and publicity,
> including regular national informatization development reports. All 12
> indicators are anticipatory (预期性), not binding (约束性).
>
> For a practitioner reading of the compliance passages (X, XI, Box 4,
> Box 8), see DCC's brief
> [What the 15th Five-Year Informatization Plan signals for AI and data compliance](/posts/informatization-15th-fyp-ai-data-compliance-signals/).
> DCC translation; the Chinese text is authoritative. "网信" (cyber and IT)
> is short for 网络安全和信息化, cybersecurity and informatization.

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During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China's informatization is entering
a new stage of across-the-board leaps in digitalization, networking, and
intelligentization, and plays a strategic, overarching, and leading role in
building Chinese modernization. This Plan is formulated on the basis of the
Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social
Development of the People's Republic of China and the relevant arrangements
for building China into a cyber power, in order to advance national
informatization systematically and in depth.

## I. General Requirements

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a
New Era, we shall thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the 20th
National Congress of the Communist Party of China and of all plenary
sessions of the 20th Central Committee; fully implement General Secretary
Xi Jinping's important thinking on building China into a cyber power; apply
the new development philosophy fully, accurately, and comprehensively;
accelerate the building of a new development pattern; solidly promote
high-quality development; and thoroughly implement the strategy of building
a cyber power. We shall focus on building a new-type information
infrastructure system, a cyber and IT innovation system, and a cyber and IT
industry ecosystem; on raising the levels of modern governance, information
services that benefit the people, coordinated digital and green
transformation, coordinated regional development, and open development; and
on consolidating security safeguards and the support of laws, regulations,
and standards. We shall raise the overall level of digitalization,
networking, and intelligentization of the economy and society, providing
strong impetus and solid support for building a great country and achieving
national rejuvenation.

By 2030, China's informatization will have made major progress, and its
role in advancing Chinese modernization will be more prominent. Information
infrastructure will consolidate and extend its leading advantages: an
integrated land, sea, air, and space network system will be basically in
place; the new-generation communications network will be fully built;
sixth-generation mobile communications (6G) will be launched commercially at
the appropriate time; the national blockchain network will be basically
completed; and the intelligent internet will be deployed and developed at a
faster pace. Cyber and IT innovation capacity will be significantly
enhanced, the science and technology innovation system will be sounder, and
breakthroughs will be made in key core technologies in priority fields. The
cyber and IT industry ecosystem will flourish, digital technology and the
real economy will be deeply integrated, and the overall strength of cyber
and IT enterprises will be significantly enhanced. The application of
digitalization, networking, and intelligentization across the economy and
society will reach a new level, with a marked improvement in its capacity
to empower economic and social development and governance. Cybersecurity
safeguards will be solid and robust, the system of laws, regulations, and
standards will be more complete, and the concept of a community with a
shared future in cyberspace will be widely embraced.

**Box 1. Main Indicators for National Informatization in the 15th Five-Year Plan Period**

| No. | Indicator | 2025 | 2030 | Attribute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Internet penetration rate (%) | 80.1 | 85 | Anticipatory |
| 2 | 5G (including 5G-A) base stations per 10,000 people | 34 | 50 | Anticipatory |
| 3 | Share of IPv6 network traffic (%) | 33.79 | 42 | Anticipatory |
| 4 | Power usage effectiveness (PUE) of newly built large and hyperscale computing facilities | 1.25 | <1.2 | Anticipatory |
| 5 | R&D intensity of computer, communications, and other electronic equipment manufacturing (%) | 3.03 | 3.6 | Anticipatory |
| 6 | Valid domestic invention patents in core digital-economy industries (10,000) | 237.5 | 326.6 | Anticipatory |
| 7 | Adoption rate of new-generation smart terminals, AI agents, and similar applications (%) | 40 | >90 | Anticipatory |
| 8 | Value added of core digital-economy industries as a share of GDP (%) | 10.5\* | 12.5 | Anticipatory |
| 9 | Share of enterprises with key business processes fully digitalized (%) | 62 | 70 | Anticipatory |
| 10 | Cross-border e-commerce imports and exports (RMB trillion) | 2.84 | 3.5 | Anticipatory |
| 11 | Share of adults with advanced digital literacy and skills (%) | 16.26\* | 25 | Anticipatory |
| 12 | Population coverage of electronic social security cards (%) | 78.6 | 90 | Anticipatory |

*Note: \* = 2024 figure.*

## II. Building a New-Type Information Infrastructure System

**(1) Build three-dimensional network infrastructure.** Accelerate building
the new-generation communications network; deepen large-scale deployment of
fifth-generation mobile communications (5G) and gigabit optical networks;
and advance 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and 10-gigabit optical networks. Accelerate
6G technology R&D, standard-setting, and application verification. Deepen
IPv6 technological innovation and integrated application, and promote a
network service and application system led by IPv6. Accelerate the building
and application of satellite internet, and deepen large-scale application
of BeiDou. Develop direct-to-satellite services for terminal devices and
advance satellite–terrestrial network integration. Promote the building of
digital low-altitude infrastructure in an orderly way. Strengthen the
building of international submarine and terrestrial cables, optimize the
layout of international communications gateways, and raise international
communications capacity.

**(2) Improve integrated application infrastructure.** Implement the
national blockchain network construction project and lay the foundation for
an internet of value. Accelerate building the integrated national
computing-power network and promote the coordinated development of
computing power, electric power, and networks. Optimize the layout of
general-purpose, intelligent, and supercomputing power. Explore
forward-looking research and technology planning for space-based computing
power. Build data circulation and utilization infrastructure steadily and
prudently. Build new-type industrial networks and promote the independent
iteration of the mobile internet of things. Build new-type radio and
television networks. Advance the digital and intelligent upgrading of
transport, energy, municipal, water-conservancy, and other infrastructure.

**(3) Plan and develop the intelligent internet.** Deepen the integrated
development of artificial intelligence and information networks, strengthen
the strategic layout of the intelligent internet, and advance
intelligentization along the whole chain of networks, platforms, terminals,
applications, and services. Develop foundational network large models and
raise the intelligent operating capacity of networks. Promote the
standardized application and innovative development of AI agents,
accelerate the development of AI terminals and intelligent applications,
and expand new forms of the intelligent economy.

**Box 2. Information Infrastructure Innovation and Development Projects**

1. **Intelligent internet.** Research intelligence-native network
   architecture. Build a standards system for the intelligent internet, and
   formulate standards on network intelligentization, cloud–network–
   computing–intelligence convergence, agent communication, and related
   areas. Build intelligent-internet test facilities and carry out test
   verification of key intelligent-internet technologies and applications.
2. **National blockchain network.** Accelerate completion of the central
   backbone network and advance the networked operation of regional hubs.
   Improve basic common service capabilities such as distributed digital
   identity. Deepen the expansion, quality, and scale of digitalization in
   shipping and freight trade, and develop major application scenarios in
   development and reform, low-carbon transition, government affairs,
   taxation, and other areas.
3. **IPv6 evolution and upgrade.** Improve the "IPv6+" technology system;
   deepen the adoption of IPv6 segment routing (SRv6), network slicing,
   in-situ flow detection, and similar technologies; and achieve
   breakthroughs in frontier technologies such as application-aware
   networking, new-type multicast, and resilient networks. Deepen the
   integrated innovation of IPv6 with large-model training and inference
   and other scenarios, and promote IPv6 access support for generative
   large-model applications. Advance research and deployment of IPv6-only
   (single-stack) technologies.

## III. Building a Cyber and IT Innovation System

**(1) Raise basic research and original innovation capacity.** Strengthen
basic theoretical research in computational mathematics, communication
networks, data science, and related fields. Strengthen research on systems
engineering, promote architecture research on distributed systems and their
reliability and scalability, and deepen research on design-optimization
methods for computer architecture, foundational software, and related
areas. Accelerate the building of disciplines and specialties in the
informatization field and promote interdisciplinary research. Accelerate
the exploration of AI-driven new research paradigms and models of
technology R&D.

**(2) Achieve breakthroughs in key core technologies.** Refine mature-process
chip manufacturing, raise advanced-process manufacturing capacity, and
advance breakthroughs in and application of compute-in-memory,
three-dimensional integration, optoelectronic convergence, and related
technologies. Promote the integrated development of operating systems,
software development toolchains, and the like with artificial intelligence.
Promote research on AI theory and algorithms including foundation models,
brain-inspired intelligence, and swarm intelligence. Strengthen R&D of new
database architectures. Plan ahead for communications technologies such as
deep-space and deep-sea communications and new-type optical networks.

**(3) Promote the deep integration of scientific and industrial
innovation.** Explore building cyber and IT technology innovation centers
and industry ecosystem centers, strengthen research on key generic
technologies, and cultivate and expand industry ecosystems. Accelerate the
efficient transfer and application of innovation results, deploy a batch of
proof-of-concept and pilot-scale verification platforms, and step up the
building and opening of application scenarios. Build high-level
open-source communities, implement high-quality open-source projects, and
attract and cultivate outstanding open-source developers. Improve the
intellectual property protection system for emerging fields.

**Box 3. Cyber and IT Innovation Breakthrough Projects**

1. **Foundational software.** Continue to optimize open-source operating
   system kernels, foundational libraries, engines, and related
   technologies, and develop cross-platform compatibility technologies.
   Develop AI-native databases and next-generation distributed databases.
2. **Industrial software.** Develop geometric modeling, constraint solving,
   mesh generation, and related technologies, and promote the iterative
   optimization of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering
   (CAE), electronic design automation (EDA), and similar software.
3. **Intelligent technologies.** Develop high-performance AI chips and
   highly available foundational software stacks. Plan technologies for
   highly intelligent phones, computers, wearables, and similar devices.
   Develop embodied-intelligence technologies such as unmanned vehicle
   terminals and humanoid robots.
4. **Quantum science and technology.** Accelerate R&D in quantum computing,
   quantum communication, quantum precision measurement, and related
   technologies. Promote research on quantum security protection
   technologies and accelerate research on post-quantum cryptography.
5. **Brain-computer interfaces.** Promote the R&D and application of
   brain-computer interface systems, and develop systems and devices for
   signal acquisition, neural decoding, disease diagnosis and treatment,
   virtual–physical control, and related functions.
6. **Digital twins.** Innovate in data acquisition and transmission,
   modeling and simulation, real-time rendering, human–computer interaction,
   and related technologies, and promote the R&D of general support
   platforms and software tools. Build multimodal digital-twin information
   models, and advance the R&D of simulation-based control and decision
   technologies, data–model fusion decision technologies, and the like.
7. **Bioinformatics.** Promote collaborative innovation between AI and
   biotechnology, and tackle key technologies in bioinformatics data
   analysis, structure prediction, and related areas. Deepen the integration
   of bioinformatics with synthetic biology, gene editing, and related
   fields, and develop new biomanufacturing technologies.

## IV. Building a Cyber and IT Industry Ecosystem

**(1) Cultivate new industries and new tracks.** Consolidate industrial
advantages in mobile communications, intelligent connected vehicles, drones,
and related areas, and cultivate technologies and products with
international leadership in integrated circuits, new-type displays,
artificial intelligence, blockchain, and related fields. Build a full-chain
cultivation system for future industries; accelerate the industrial
application of quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces, embodied
intelligence, 6G, and related technologies; and explore diverse technology
routes, typical application scenarios, viable business models, and market
regulatory rules. Improve the fundamental systems for data elements, deepen
the development and utilization of data resources, and make the digital
economy stronger, better, and larger.

**Box 4. Cyber and IT Industry Ecosystem Development Projects**

1. **Operating systems.** Continue to raise the compatibility of desktop and
   server operating systems, accelerate application adaptation for mobile
   operating systems, and support the R&D of related products.
2. **Databases.** Build database test and verification platforms covering
   all scenarios, and promote software–hardware adaptation verification,
   tool development, and convergent innovation with emerging technologies
   for database products.
3. **RISC-V (fifth-generation reduced instruction set).** Accelerate RISC-V
   R&D, promote the integrated development of RISC-V and artificial
   intelligence, and improve software and hardware toolchains.
4. **AI agents.** Advance mutual trust, interconnection, and
   interoperability among agents, and accelerate the development of
   multi-agent systems, agent swarms, and the like. Formulate needs
   guidelines for priority scenarios, build an evaluation system for agent
   technology maturity, and develop standards on agent identity identifiers
   and related matters.

**(2) Empower the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries.**
Develop smart agriculture, promote the digital transformation of the whole
agricultural industry chain, and promote the application of smart
agricultural machinery and other technical equipment. Promote the
"intelligent upgrading, digital transformation, and network connection" of
manufacturing, and deepen the special action on digital empowerment of small
and medium-sized enterprises. Accelerate the replacement and upgrading of
industrial control systems in key enterprises. Implement the "AI Plus
Manufacturing" action and promote the coordinated development of the
industrial internet with key industrial chains. Accelerate the development
of intelligent construction. Deepen capacity expansion and quality
improvement in the service sector, promote the digital transformation of
producer services, and expand digital application scenarios for consumer
services. Promote the regulated and healthy development of the platform
economy. Vigorously promote digital consumption and create diverse
service-consumption scenarios. Develop the e-CNY (digital renminbi)
steadily. Promote and regulate the use of electronic trade documents.

**(3) Promote the high-quality development of cyber and IT enterprises.**
Improve the working mechanism for categorized and tiered cultivation and
services, and cultivate ecosystem-leading enterprises with global influence,
industry-leading enterprises in niche fields, and high-growth innovative
enterprises. Strengthen the principal role of cyber and IT enterprises in
scientific and technological innovation, and support capable enterprises in
leading national key science and technology projects.

## V. Raising the Level of Modern Governance

**(1) Raise the level of e-government services.** Improve the national
e-government network. Implement the "AI Plus Government Affairs" application
upgrade action, and advance the deployment and application of AI large
models and agents in government affairs safely, prudently, and in an orderly
way. Strengthen informatization support for scientific decision-making,
emergency command, public safety, and related functions, and raise the
level of informatization work in departments at all levels. Strengthen the
sharing and use of government data. Deepen the mutual recognition and wide
application of electronic files, electronic seals, and electronic licenses
and certificates.

**(2) Advance the digital empowerment of grassroots work.** Promote the
development and governance of an intelligent society. Optimize the
functions of the National Integrated Online Government Service Platform,
expand the scope of "inter-provincial handling", and extend the scenarios
covered by "efficiently getting one thing done". Strengthen the regulated
management of government mobile apps, and deepen the prevention and control
of "formalism at the fingertips" and of "vanity projects" in government
services. Advance the application of the "One Form" system, promote
collecting grassroots government data once for use by many parties, and
promote the return flow of government data to the grassroots.

**Box 5. Intelligent Society Development and Governance Actions**

1. **Build an intelligent service system.** Deepen AI applications in
   education, healthcare, housing, elderly care, sports, and other
   livelihood fields; promote the sharing, reuse, and precise matching of
   public service resources; and advance the building of intelligent
   convenience-living circles. Cultivate new occupations of the intelligent
   society, improve employment-matching mechanisms and transition channels,
   and improve social-insurance enrollment mechanisms for new forms of
   employment.
2. **Raise intelligent social governance capacity.** Steadily advance AI
   applications in government services, judicial services, urban
   management, community governance, market regulation, and other fields;
   make government decision-making more scientific and social governance
   more precise; and strengthen intelligent supervision and regulation.
   Deepen the application of intelligent monitoring and inspection,
   strengthen the real-time identification of and early warning on
   public-safety risks and hazards, and raise the capacity to forecast and
   respond to extreme weather and emergencies.
3. **Improve mechanisms for building an intelligent society.** Steadily
   carry out AI social experiments, deepen the building of national
   intelligent-society governance experimental bases, and explore AI social
   impact assessment.

## VI. Raising the Level of Information Services That Benefit the People

**(1) Raise the informatization level of livelihood services.** Advance the
national education digitalization strategy in depth and improve the
National Smart Education Public Service Platform. Advance the digital and
intelligent development of health care, and make digital and intelligent
management of universal medical insurance more effective. Optimize the
supply of public digital cultural services, and advance the development and
opening of digital resources of traditional culture. Raise the level of
informatization services in community life, transport, tourism, sports, and
other areas. Improve social-security informatization services, improve the
social insurance public service platform, and expand the "one card for
everything" resident-service applications of the social security card.
Optimize smart elderly-care and disability-assistance services, and promote
age-friendly and accessibility retrofitting of internet applications.
Innovate and expand employment information services, and cultivate
innovative forms of work such as intelligent agency.

**(2) Raise the digital literacy and skills of the whole population.**
Improve the system for cultivating digital literacy and skills, and build
and make good use of national digital literacy and skills training bases.
Strengthen the supply of high-quality digital resources and keep channels
for open sharing clear. Implement a special action to raise the AI literacy
of the whole population, and strengthen AI education across all school
stages and general AI education for the whole of society. Accelerate the
building of a vocational education system for informatization talent and
improve the lifelong-learning system.

## VII. Raising the Level of Coordinated Digital and Green Transformation

**(1) Develop digital and green modes of production.** Promote the green
design and operation of computing facilities, communications base stations,
and the like, and develop new models such as diversified direct green-power
supply and source–grid–load–storage integration. Advance the use of digital
and intelligent technologies to empower the green transformation of
traditional industries, promoting equipment upgrades, process optimization,
and management innovation. Raise the level of digital carbon-emission
management and optimize full-life-cycle carbon-footprint management of
products. Improve the system for recycling and treating waste electrical
and electronic products.

**(2) Promote green and smart lifestyles.** Raise the digital and green
level of urban operations. Enrich green and smart living scenarios, and
promote green lifestyles such as e-commerce, mobile payment, the sharing
economy, smart mobility, and digital homes. Improve incentive mechanisms for
green consumption, and explore building points systems that can be redeemed
and used both online and offline. Use digital technology to raise the
certification capacity for green products and services.

**(3) Strengthen the digital governance of green development.** Implement
the action on AI development and application for the ecological
environment. Raise the informatization application level of
natural-resource management and territorial spatial planning. Advance
digital water conservancy, and raise the level of river-basin flood control
and water-resource management and allocation. Advance smart emergency
management and tighten the monitoring and early-warning network for
disasters and accidents.

## VIII. Raising the Level of Coordinated Regional Development

**(1) Serve the implementation of major regional strategies.** Support
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong
Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in building highlands for innovative
informatization development; promote information-technology innovation
leading industrial innovation in central China; support western China in
developing distinctive, advantageous cyber and IT industries; and accelerate
the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional manufacturing in
northeast China. Support Hainan in building a high-standard free trade port
and making it a window for global digital openness and cooperation. Support
Hong Kong and Macao in better integrating into the overall national
informatization development, and advance digital finance, digital trade,
and related development.

**(2) Promote interconnection and joint building and sharing.** Optimize the
regional spatial layout of information infrastructure and build a
monitoring and scheduling system for the integrated national computing-power
network. Strengthen the cross-regional linked development of cyber and IT
industries, deepen the coordination of industrial, innovation, and supply
chains, and build industrial ecosystems with complementary advantages. Raise
the informatization level of cross-regional public services; focusing on
education, healthcare, culture and tourism, elderly care, disability
assistance, and other key fields, enable more matters to achieve online
mutual recognition of qualifications, data interoperability, and shared
services.

**(3) Promote integrated urban–rural informatization.** Advance citywide
digital transformation, improve city information modeling (CIM) platforms,
and make urban governance smarter and more fine-grained. Implement the
action for the high-quality development of digital villages, promoting the
integrated development of rural industry digitalization, rural construction
informatization, and smart rural governance. Advance the coordinated
planning and synchronous implementation of digital villages and smart
cities, and promote the balanced development of urban and rural information
infrastructure, the integration and application of data resources, and the
inclusive sharing of information services.

**Box 6. Informatization Coordinated Development Actions for Key Regions**

1. **Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.** Promote collaborative innovation in AI,
   integrated circuits, and related fields, and improve key industrial
   chains such as intelligent connected vehicles and robotics. Optimize the
   regional layout of computing infrastructure and raise connectivity and
   utilization. Advance blockchain empowerment of the "dual airport hubs",
   smart logistics, and other scenarios. Support Xiong'an in accelerating
   industrial ecosystems in aerospace information, RISC-V, and related
   areas.
2. **Yangtze River Delta.** Jointly promote technological innovation and
   industrial development in AI, integrated circuits, quantum technology,
   brain-computer interfaces, and related fields. Advance the converged
   application of 5G-A networks and 10-gigabit optical networks, and deepen
   blockchain empowerment of trade, finance, and other key fields. Expand
   the Yangtze River Delta "inter-provincial handling" list, and bring more
   high-frequency services onto the "one-network handling" platform.
3. **Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.** Strengthen advantageous
   industries such as integrated circuits, the low-altitude economy, and
   unmanned aircraft (and vessels). Build international communications
   infrastructure that meets the needs of scientific and technological
   innovation. Accelerate innovative blockchain applications. Promote the
   orderly cross-border flow of data and the "cross-border handling" of
   government services. Host the World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific
   Summit and other international events well.
4. **Chengdu-Chongqing region.** Accelerate the development of industrial
   clusters in integrated circuits, new-type displays, smart terminals,
   intelligent connected vehicles, drones, and related fields. Jointly
   advance "Digital Chongqing" and "Smart Rongcheng" (Chengdu), and enable
   more public services to be handled on a same-city, undifferentiated
   basis. Advance the large-scale application of blockchain in commerce and
   circulation, manufacturing, agricultural development, and other fields.

## IX. Raising the Level of Open Development

**(1) Deepen exchanges and cooperation in cyberspace.** Thoroughly publicize
General Secretary Xi Jinping's concepts and propositions on building a
community with a shared future in cyberspace. Give play to the United
Nations as the main channel, deepen exchanges and cooperation through
multilateral and bilateral mechanisms, and take an active part in
formulating international rules and standards in AI, the digital economy,
infrastructure, and related fields. Support the development of the World
Internet Conference, the World AI Cooperation Organization, the World Data
Organization, and other international organizations; build public goods
with global influence; and bring more weighty and effective international
events to China.

**(2) Expand the opening up of digital services.** Promote the orderly
expansion of opening up in telecommunications, the internet, and related
fields, and step up the opening up of the software and information services
industry. Make digital services for foreign nationals entering China more
convenient. Give play to pilot free trade zones, the Hainan Free Trade Port,
and similar platforms in promoting digital trade. Implement the action for
the overseas development of cyber and IT enterprises, support them in
expanding overseas business prudently and in an orderly way, and strengthen
the protection of their overseas rights and interests.

**Box 7. Overseas Development Action for Cyber and IT Enterprises**

1. **Support cyber and IT enterprises in "going global".** Support
   enterprises with advantages in going global in an orderly way; promote
   the coordinated overseas development of upstream and downstream
   enterprises in industrial chains; deepen international exchanges and
   cooperation in information infrastructure, AI, e-government, e-commerce,
   mobile payment, digital transformation, and related fields; and support
   cyber and IT enterprises in participating in the formulation of
   international standards.
2. **Improve services for going overseas.** Explore setting up overseas
   business compliance guidance centers for key markets, and strengthen
   compliance guidance services for cyber and IT enterprises going overseas.
   Improve risk monitoring and early-warning mechanisms, build a case
   database of overseas legal disputes involving cyber and IT enterprises,
   and improve legal services and training.

## X. Consolidating Security Safeguards

**(1) Strengthen security safeguards for new technologies and new
applications.** Promote technological innovation and industrial development
in cybersecurity, and encourage the development of secure and reliable
information products and services. Improve agile governance mechanisms for
artificial intelligence, and strengthen the building of a cryptographic
protection system for AI. Optimize the generative AI filing mechanism,
establish a security risk assessment system for applications in key
sectors, and improve assessment and filing for new forms such as AI agents,
on-device large models, and anthropomorphic interaction services. Advance
the R&D and application of large-model-based vulnerability discovery and
protection technologies. Strengthen the prevention of cybersecurity risks
to satellite internet. Strengthen the capacity to respond to the security
risks of intelligent connected vehicles.

**(2) Raise the level of data security and personal information
protection.** Strengthen the classification and grading management of data
in key industries, deepen the application of blockchain, privacy-protective
computation, and related technologies in data circulation and trading, and
strengthen cryptographic protection for data security. Promote and regulate
cross-border data flows, and implement efficiently the data export security
assessment, the personal information outbound standard contract, the
personal information outbound certification, and related systems. Promote
national network identity authentication public services. Promote the
mutual recognition and application of distributed digital identities.
Strengthen personal information protection testing and assessment of smart
devices, and strengthen management of the technical application of
biometric feature information.

**Box 8. Action to Facilitate Cross-Border Data Flows**

1. **Deepen implementation of the system.** Organize key industries and
   sectors to formulate compliance guidelines for cross-border data flows,
   and support pilot free trade zones in formulating and publishing data
   export negative lists.
2. **Raise service capacity.** Explore building cross-border data service
   centers that provide one-stop services including policy interpretation,
   compliance guidance, and assistance with declarations, and guide and
   help data handlers raise their compliance capacity.
3. **Strengthen platform support.** Build a network data security
   compliance testing platform and, around the needs of the data export
   security assessment, data security risk assessment, personal information
   protection compliance audits, certification, and the like, carry out the
   R&D of software, tools, and platforms.
4. **Expand international cooperation.** On the principle of reciprocity and
   mutual benefit, carry out international exchanges and cooperation on
   cross-border data in key fields such as health care, intelligent
   connected vehicles, sci-tech finance, AI, and trade and logistics.

## XI. Consolidating the Support of Laws, Regulations, and Standards

**(1) Improve legislation in the cyber field.** Advance foundational
legislation on artificial intelligence, the digital economy,
telecommunications, the prevention and control of cybercrime, combating
cyber violence, and related areas. Strengthen legislative research in
emerging fields such as autonomous driving and the low-altitude economy.
Improve the systems of laws and regulations in cybersecurity, data security,
personal information protection, informatization development, and related
fields, and increase the supply of laws, regulations, and institutions for
governing new technologies, new applications, and new business models.
Focusing on hot issues such as AI, personal information protection, and
online ecosystem governance, research and issue relevant judicial
interpretations. Expand the building of foreign-related rule of law in the
cyber field.

**(2) Advance informatization standards.** Improve technical standards
systems for integrated circuits, blockchain, operating systems, databases,
and related fields; accelerate standards development in emerging fields such
as AI and agents and smart terminals; and plan standards for frontier
technologies such as quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces, and
embodied intelligence. Strengthen standardization technical organizations in
the informatization field and advance the publicity and application of
standards. Strengthen standardization talent training and promote the
digital transformation of standards. Take an active part in formulating
international standards in the informatization field, and promote the
conversion of national standards into international standards.

## XII. Organization and Implementation

Strengthen the Party's overall leadership over informatization work, and
give play to the overall coordinating role of the Central Cyberspace Affairs
Commission. The Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission shall
improve the overall coordination mechanism for national informatization
development, strengthen interdepartmental coordination, central–local
linkage, and categorized guidance, organize monitoring and evaluation of
implementation, regularly publish national informatization development
reports, and drive the implementation of all tasks. Make coordinated use of
various fiscal funds and industrial funds in accordance with regulations;
grow patient capital, long-term capital, and strategic capital; and guide
financial institutions to support the development of the cyber and IT
industry. Strengthen the informatization talent pool, comprehensively raise
leading officials' capacity to perform informatization duties, and step up
the cultivation of interdisciplinary, cross-field talent. Strengthen
publicity and guidance, build broad social consensus, and stimulate the
enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole of society in advancing
informatization.