Opinions of the State Council on Deepening the Implementation of the 'AI+' Action

Summary

State Council opinions on the 'AI+' action, mainly about integrating AI into six fields: science and technology, industry, consumption, people's livelihood, governance and global cooperation, with targets for 2027, 2030 and 2035. Its item on raising security capability calls for security capacity for models and algorithms, data, infrastructure and applications; guarding against risks from model black boxes, hallucination and algorithmic discrimination; forward-looking assessment; and systems for AI technology monitoring, risk early warning and emergency response. It also calls for improving AI laws and ethical norms and optimising security assessment and filing.

Language

English translation by Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University, not by a public body Open it. The Chinese text is authoritative.

Safety topics

Scope

Borderline scope A State Council policy on integrating AI across the economy and society in which safety takes up a small part of the text, mainly item (14) on security capability and two sentences of item (13) on law, ethics and security assessment; included as the State Council's national AI policy.

Status notes

Signed 21 Aug 2025 and released on 26 Aug 2025. The NDRC coordinates implementation. Item (14) also calls for an inclusive and prudent, categorised and graded approach to AI governance. Outside items (13) and (14), item (6)2 calls for jointly assessing and responding to AI application risks to keep AI development safe, reliable and controllable, and item (4)1 for assessing the employment risks of AI applications.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.cac.gov.cn/2025-08/27/c_1758018277755538.htm

Secondary source: https://www.miit.gov.cn/xwfb/szyw/art/2025/art_f8bd63905b384841a84e643c1b9455c7.html

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-16related: [{"slug": "cn-cybersecurity-law-2025-amendment", "id": "CN-14"}, {"slug": "cn-ai → [{"slug": "cn-cybersecurity-law-2025-amendment", "id": "CN-14"}, {"slug": "cn-ai — two-way link to CN-28 added in run 2026-10-16-discover-leads2026-10-16-discover-leads · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "third-party translation", "url": "https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-conte — Return round (14 Oct 2026): set to CSET's translation, now stored (translator Etcetera Language Group, Inc., edited by CSET's translation manager). The findings show no government English text.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-14scope_note: A national AI development policy in which safety is a minority of the text, abou → A State Council policy on integrating AI across the economy and society in which — 'About one-fifth' corrected: items (13) and (14) are about 330 of about 5,200 characters of body text (roughly 6 percent), and item (13) is mostly about state-capital oversight and financial support.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-14notes: Signed 21 Aug 2025 and published 27 Aug 2025. The NDRC coordinates implementatio → Signed 21 Aug 2025 and released on 26 Aug 2025. The NDRC coordinates implementat — Release date corrected from 27 Aug (the CAC re-post) to 26 Aug 2025 (the MIIT re-post of the gov.cn text, 17:57). Added the categorised and graded approach (分类分级) of item (14) and the safety-related sentences of items (6)2 and (4)1.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-14summary: China's current flagship AI policy, focused mainly on deploying AI across indust → State Council opinions on the 'AI+' action, mainly about integrating AI into six — Focus areas corrected to the six the text names (科技、产业、消费、民生、治理、全球合作); 民生 is 'people's livelihood', not 'public services'. Dropped the evaluation 'China's current flagship AI policy' and the 'dedicated section' framing; 'improving security assessment and filing' became 'optimising' (优化). Added the targets for 2027, 2030 and 2035.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
6. 2026-10-14scope_note: – → A national AI development policy in which safety is a minority of the text, abou — borderline under the include-and-flag rules of issue #22026-10-14-issue-2-scope-notes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
7. 2026-10-14notes: Signed 21 Aug 2025 and published 27 Aug 2025. Borderline inclusion: we included → Signed 21 Aug 2025 and published 27 Aug 2025. The NDRC coordinates implementatio — scope caveat moved to scope_note2026-10-14-issue-2-scope-notes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Cybersecurity Law amendment (AI article) China · In force

AI Safety Governance Framework 2.0 China · Superseded

New Generation AI Development Plan China · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

State Council of the People's Republic of China. Opinions of the State Council on Deepening the Implementation of the 'AI+' Action [国发〔2025〕11号]. 2025-08-21. https://www.cac.gov.cn/2025-08/27/c_1758018277755538.htm. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-14 (level A). Local copy archive/CN-12/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 14:00:20 UTC, SHA-256 d75f6d97724e45316f7d9a9ed2fca753ed949a208a12bdacaf9aef0d82f1b244. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record CN-12.

Improve this record

Know of an amendment, a status change or an error? Report news or an error on GitHub; the form opens with this record filled in.