President Xi calls for global governance of AI for benefit of all

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech

at the opening ceremony of

2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai,

emphasising the need to advance

AI development and governance for the benefit of all humanity.

Addressing the conference, Chinese President Xi Jinping

presents four observations

on AI development and governance,

including upholding openness and win-win cooperation,

strengthening risk awareness, fostering inclusiveness

and advocating solidarity to improve global governance.

Xi mentions artificial intelligence is entering

an unprecedented period of innovation,

bringing enormous opportunities while posing new governance challenges.

He says we must strengthen guardrails,

prevent abuse and malicious use

to ensure AI is always under human control,

opposing overextending the concept

of national security in the field of AI by placing one country's security over that of others.

Xi also stresses AI development should not be a solo performance

by any one country,

but rather, a symphony of global cooperation.

As a responsible major country,

China remains committed to

the greater good of humankind in the field of AI.

He announces over the next five years, China will provide 5,000 training

opportunities in artificial intelligence to developing countries, establish

international AI application cooperation centres, and promote AI-powered

weather warning solutions, the "Mazu" system, to be deployed and

applied in 30 countries.