Open, inclusive and cooperative approach boosts innovation

In October 2023, China's top leader introduced the Global Initiative for AI Governance, proposing China's solution and contributing China's wisdom for AI development and governance. During his attendance at the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing reiterated China's willingness to work with other countries to promote development, safeguard security, share achievements in the field of AI, and jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind.

The statement signed by dozens of countries at the summit spoke positively of China's efforts to promote the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building and pointed out that the 2025 World AI Conference due to be hosted by China will be a milestone event. Although the United States refused to sign, with Vice-President JD Vance making it clear that Washington maintains an "America first" approach in AI development, China's cosigning of the document demonstrates its positive attitude toward promoting global AI development and governance and its continued wishes to promote AI to better serve global development and improve human well-being.

China's open, inclusive and cooperative approach is boosting its innovation capacity. According to the Global Innovation Index 2024 released by the World Intellectual Property Organization last September, China is the only middle-income economy among the top 30 in the Global Innovation Index, ranking 11th in the world, up one place from 2023. After DeepSeek shocked the world with its opensource model R1, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, warned that Western countries need to focus on building open source AI models or risk losing out to China in the global race for the cutting-edge technology.

While vigorously promoting the innovation and development of AI and attaching importance to AI security, China has also been actively promoting the inclusive development of AI, advocating open source AI technology, and promoting the accessibility of AI services. It opposes drawing lines by ideology, generalizing the concept of national security and politicizing economic, trade and scientific and technological issues.

The Chinese innovation model constitutes a key part of China's innovative development, and the global governance of new technologies advocated by China is in line with the common interests and expectations of the world.