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Global AI Governance Initiative

全球人工智能治理倡议

Record CN-05

Issued by
Government of the People's Republic of China (announced by President Xi Jinping; text published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Jurisdiction
China
Level · region
National · East Asia
Published / adopted
2023-10-18
Language
Chinese, English

Summary

China's statement of its position on global AI governance. It calls for a testing and assessment system based on AI risk levels, tiered and category-based management, keeping AI under human control, explainability and traceability, a prudent and responsible approach to military AI, and discussions under the UN on an international institution to govern AI.

Safety topics

risk-based classificationevaluation & testinghuman oversightnational security & militaryinternational cooperation

Status notes

Announced on 18 Oct 2023 by President Xi Jinping in his keynote speech at the opening of the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, and published in Chinese on the CAC website the same day. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' English text is dated 20 Oct 2023.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/zy/gb/202405/t20240531_11367503.html

Secondary source: https://www.mfa.gov.cn/web/fyrbt_673021/dhdw_673027/202310/t20231018_11162801.shtml

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-18 00:44:40 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/CN-05/2026-10-18/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-18 00:44:46 UTC
SHA-256 073933c76fa44d0cf1f30d1cbe95b17ad6a625f29abd12024e3550f2adde5b59
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/CN-05/2026-10-18/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-18 00:44:49 UTC
SHA-256 0096f2192eb8161a0513775ec3eff9fc6ca7b28d57e41d3634bbad859cdc4879

Verification

A
The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched
Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. Stored and read: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' English text of the Initiative (mfa.gov.cn, copy of 11 Oct 2026, filed under Resources > Communiqués), dated 'Updated: October 20, 2023', which confirms the title, the non-binding form ('we would like to suggest the following') and the content behind the summary; the Chinese text on the CAC website (cac.gov.cn, stored in this run on 18 Oct 2026), dated 2023年10月18日 12:00, which confirms the Chinese title, the date and the same content; and the MFA spokesperson's remarks of 18 Oct 2023 (mfa.gov.cn, stored in this run on 18 Oct 2026), which say that President Xi announced at the opening of the Third Belt and Road Forum that morning that China would put forward the Initiative. The archiver flagged the spokesperson's page for review because the title appears only a few times; it is the right page. The gov.cn page of version 1's secondary URL was not stored: the archiver could not reach gov.cn's robots.txt on 11 Oct 2026 and its DNS lookup failed on 18 Oct 2026, so the spokesperson's page on mfa.gov.cn replaces it. Version 1's note that the Initiative is the conceptual basis of TC260's AI Safety Governance Framework and the 2025 Action Plan, and that the MFA page was re-posted in May 2024, rest on no stored file and were removed.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 6 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-18notes: Announced 18 Oct 2023 by President Xi Jinping in his keynote at the opening of t → Announced on 18 Oct 2023 by President Xi Jinping in his keynote speech at the op — version 1's claims that the Initiative is the conceptual basis of the AI Safety Governance Framework and the 2025 Action Plan, and that the MFA page was re-posted in May 2024, rest on no stored file and were removed (CN-07 and CN-11 stay linked); the CAC publication of the Chinese text on 18 Oct 2023 added2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-18secondary_url: https://www.gov.cn/lianbo/fabu/202310/content_6910006.htm → https://www.mfa.gov.cn/web/fyrbt_673021/dhdw_673027/202310/t20231018_11162801.sh — the gov.cn page of version 1 cannot be stored (robots.txt unreachable, then DNS failure); the MFA spokesperson's remarks of 18 Oct 2023 on mfa.gov.cn, stored in this run, give the same facts (announcement by President Xi at the Third Belt and Road Forum)2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "authentic", "url": "https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/zy/gb/202405/t20240531_ — English version found by the translation check in a stored copy (archive/CN-05/2026-10-11/official.html).manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Government of the People's Republic of China (announced by President Xi Jinping; text published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Global AI Governance Initiative. 2023-10-18. https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/zy/gb/202405/t20240531_11367503.html. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/CN-05/2026-10-18/official.html retrieved 2026-10-18 00:44:46 UTC, SHA-256 073933c76fa44d0cf1f30d1cbe95b17ad6a625f29abd12024e3550f2adde5b59. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record CN-05.

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