Translated by Claude, edited by Sinocism.com

Source: People's Daily | Byline: Huan Yu Ping 寰宇平 | July 14, 2026, page 3

Only by discarding the narrow thinking of zero-sum games, upholding a cooperative philosophy of openness and win-win outcomes, and joining hands to build a fair and reasonable, universally beneficial and inclusive global AI governance system can the fruits of intelligent technology benefit the people of all countries more fully and more equitably, and can the light of science and technology illuminate the long road ahead for humanity's common development.

唯有摒弃零和博弈的狭隘思维，秉持开放共赢的合作理念，携手构建公正合理、普惠包容的全球人工智能治理体系，才能让智能技术发展成果更多更公平惠及各国人民，让科技之光照亮人类共同发展的长远前路

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a keynote address. Since its founding in 2018, the conference has been held successfully eight times running, becoming an important multilateral platform for the international community to conduct AI dialogue and build consensus on global governance. This year's conference takes as its theme "Intelligent Partners, Creating the Future Together," expressing a development vision of AI empowering thousands of industries and serving production and daily life. The eyes of the international community are trained on the banks of the Huangpu, in the expectation that this conference will be an occasion to jointly discuss technological innovation, jointly promote the application of results, jointly build an inclusive ecosystem, advance AI that is universally beneficial and for the good, and inject new momentum into global AI development.

2026世界人工智能大会暨人工智能全球治理高级别会议将于7月17日至20日在上海举行。习近平主席将出席大会开幕式并发表主旨讲话。自2018年创办以来，大会已连续成功举办八届，成为国际社会开展人工智能对话、凝聚全球治理共识的重要多边平台。本届大会以“智能伙伴  共创未来”为主题，寄寓人工智能赋能千行百业、服务生产生活的发展愿景。国际社会目光汇聚黄浦江畔，期待以本届大会为契机，共商技术创新，共促成果赋能，共建包容生态，推动人工智能普惠向善，为全球人工智能发展注入新动力。

General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation represented by artificial intelligence is, with the force of accelerating breakthroughs, giving rise to new modes of production, new ways of living, learning and working, and has promoted development in many areas while also bringing certain latent risks, placing new and higher demands on us when it comes to seizing opportunities to pursue development and strengthening governance to avoid risk. At present the global wave of intelligentization surges forward, innovation in the AI field continues to achieve clustered breakthroughs, and the technology is moving out of the laboratory and into every scenario of production and daily life at an accelerating pace. From major economies speeding up their strategic layouts, to the iterative upgrading of large models and the continuous expansion of application scenarios, AI is becoming an important driving force in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, injecting new momentum into economic growth and providing important support for implementing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

习近平总书记指出，以人工智能为代表的新一轮科技革命和产业变革，正在以加速突破之势催生新的生产方式、生活方式、学习方式、工作方式，促进了多方面发展，同时也带来一些潜在隐患，对我们用好机遇抓发展和加强治理避风险提出了新的更高的要求。当前，全球智能化浪潮奔涌向前，人工智能领域创新持续实现群体性突破，技术加速走出实验室、融入生产生活全场景。从主要经济体加快战略布局，到大模型迭代升级、应用场景不断拓展，人工智能正成为新一轮科技革命和产业变革的重要驱动力量，为经济增长注入新动能，也为落实联合国2030年可持续发展议程提供了重要支撑。

At the same time, the risks and challenges brought by AI are becoming more prominent by the day, and the urgency of strengthening governance is unprecedented. "AI may become the most powerful engine driving development, but the harm it may bring merits equal attention." The warning from UN Secretary-General Guterres is thought-provoking. The first preliminary assessment report released in July by the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI shows that the speed at which AI technology is developing and the breadth of its potential applications pose major challenges to policymakers, and that large-scale, unregulated, rapid deployment of AI technology carries enormous risks. The trend toward fragmentation of the global AI governance system likewise merits vigilance, as certain countries turn governance into a tool for maintaining their own competitive advantage, artificially raising the cost of cooperation on global governance.

与此同时，人工智能带来的风险挑战也日益凸显，加强治理的紧迫性前所未有。“人工智能可能成为推动发展的最强劲引擎，但其可能带来的危害同样值得关注。”联合国秘书长古特雷斯的警示发人深省。联合国“人工智能独立国际科学小组”7月发布的首份初步评估报告显示，人工智能技术发展速度之快、潜在应用范围之广，给政策制定者带来重大挑战，大规模、未加管控地快速部署人工智能技术会带来巨大风险。人工智能全球治理体系碎片化趋势同样值得警惕，个别国家将治理异化为维护自身竞争优势的工具，人为抬高全球治理的协作成本。

As the global intelligence divide keeps widening, imbalances in the allocation of resources such as computing power, data and talent are growing ever more acute. The World Bank's Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025 shows that high-income countries occupy the overwhelming majority of places on the global TOP500 high-performance computing list, while low- and middle-income countries lag markedly in both the number of systems and the scale of computing power; a report on African data centers shows that the overwhelming majority of global data center capacity is concentrated in developed economies, with Africa accounting for less than 1 percent. Absent coordinated intervention, the development gap in the AI field will further evolve into a North-South development divide, aggravating the imbalance of global development.

面对全球智能鸿沟持续拉大，算力、数据、人才等资源分配失衡问题愈发突出。世界银行《2025年数字化进程与趋势》报告显示，高收入国家占据全球高性能计算TOP500榜单绝大多数席位，中低收入国家在系统数量和算力规模上差距显著；非洲数据中心报告显示，全球数据中心容量绝大多数集中于发达经济体，非洲占比不足1%。若缺乏协同干预，人工智能领域的发展差距将进一步演变为南北发展鸿沟，加剧全球发展的不均衡性。

How can AI truly be put to use by humanity and kept under humanity's control, becoming an international public good that benefits all mankind? This is not a purely technical proposition but a correcting of development philosophy and a reconstruction of governance rules — more than that, it is a collective examination of the capacity for global governance. Facing this shared question, China has always proceeded from the common wellbeing of all humanity, actively contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to promote the healthy and orderly development of AI in a direction that is beneficial, safe and fair.

如何让人工智能真正为人类所用、为人类所掌控，成为造福全人类的国际公共产品？这并非单纯的技术命题，而是一场发展理念的校正、治理规则的重构，更是对全球治理能力的集体大考。面对这一共同课题，中国始终立足全人类共同福祉，为推动人工智能朝着有益、安全、公平方向健康有序发展，积极贡献中国智慧与中国方案。

Uphold a people-centered approach and AI for good, calibrating the bearing of values for global AI development. At present two entirely different logics of development exist in the AI field: some media have summed them up as "oil thinking" and "water-flow thinking" — the former treats data and computing power as exclusive scarce resources, fostering barriers, blockades and zero-sum games; the latter treats AI as a universally beneficial public good, nurturing connectivity, sharing and mutual benefit. The vitality of technology lies in open flow. The development of AI must never move toward a technological monopoly that walls itself in (画地为牢, literally "draw a circle on the ground as a prison" — an idiom for self-imposed confinement), but should always be anchored to the fundamental goal of serving humanity. China put forward the Global AI Governance Initiative, opposing the use of AI as a tool for seeking hegemony, opposing the monopolizing of resources, the domination of rules and the construction of exclusive "small circles," and opposing the artificial erection of technological barriers to obstruct the development of other countries. Upholding the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefit, this initiative has built cooperative consensus for global AI development and won broad support and response from the international community.

坚持以人为本、智能向善，为全球人工智能发展校准价值航向。当前，人工智能领域存在两种截然不同的发展逻辑：有媒体将其概括为“石油思维”与“水流思维”——前者把数据、算力视作排他性稀缺资源，催生壁垒、封锁与零和博弈；后者将人工智能视作普惠性公共产品，孕育连通、共享与互利共赢。技术的生命力在于开放流动，人工智能的发展绝不能走向画地为牢的技术垄断，而应始终锚定服务人类的根本目标。中国提出《全球人工智能治理倡议》，反对将人工智能作为谋求霸权的工具，反对独占资源、主导规则、构建排他性“小圈子”，反对人为制造技术壁垒阻挠他国发展。这一倡议秉持共商共建共享原则，为全球人工智能发展凝聚了合作共识，获得国际社会广泛支持和响应。

Uphold extensive consultation and joint contribution, and multilateral cooperation, laying a firm institutional foundation for improving global AI governance. AI is by nature cross-border and cross-domain; in the face of the risks and challenges it brings, no country can look after itself alone (独善其身, from Mencius: "in poverty, attend to one's own virtue; in success, bring good to the world" — 源). A fragmented governance model dominated by a handful of countries cannot meet the governance needs of a global technological transformation. China firmly supports the United Nations in playing the main channel role in AI governance, participates deeply in the discussion and formulation of global ethical norms and technical standards, and works concretely to guarantee the right of all countries to participate equally in rule-making. From rolling out the Global AI Governance Action Plan, driving existing consensus into practical measures; to launching the "AI Plus" international cooperation initiative, broadening the practical pathways by which intelligent technology empowers sustainable development; to proposing the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization, building a standing platform for multilateral cooperation and governance… China has always dissolved differences through dialogue and gathered consensus through consultation, promoting the alignment of countries' development strategies, the coordination of governance rules and the mutual recognition of technical standards, and continuously enlarging the greatest common denominator of consensus on global governance.

坚持共商共建、多边协作，为完善全球人工智能治理夯实制度根基。人工智能天然具有跨国界、跨领域属性，在其带来的风险挑战面前没有任何国家能够独善其身，少数国家主导的碎片化治理模式，无法适配全球性技术变革的治理需求。中国坚定支持联合国在人工智能治理中发挥主渠道作用，深度参与全球伦理规范、技术标准的研讨制定，切实保障各国平等参与规则制定的权利。从推出《人工智能全球治理行动计划》，推动既有共识转化为务实举措；到发起“人工智能+”国际合作倡议，拓宽智能技术赋能可持续发展的实践路径；再到倡议成立世界人工智能合作组织，为多边合作和治理搭建常设平台……中国始终以对话化解分歧、以协商汇聚共识，推动各国发展战略对接、治理规则协调、技术标准互认，持续做大全球治理共识的最大公约数。

Uphold openness and sharing, universal benefit and inclusiveness, injecting practical momentum into bridging the global intelligence divide. The intelligence divide is the concentrated expression of imbalanced global development in the digital era, and bridging it cannot stop at consensus on paper; the key is to translate it into concrete action on the ground. At the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, all sides broadly expressed that they do not wish to see an "AI iron curtain," and calls to share knowledge, open-source technology and promote the diversity of civilizations grew stronger. China pushed the UN General Assembly to adopt by consensus a resolution on strengthening international cooperation on AI capacity building, putting the capacity building of developing countries on the important agenda of global AI governance; it put forward and implemented the AI Capacity-Building Action Plan for Good and for All, launched the Group of Friends for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building, and carried out multi-dimensional collaboration on technology and talent; and it has continued to advance open-source technology, knowledge sharing and industrial coordination, using the World AI Conference to promote the cross-regional flow of quality intelligence resources. This series of measures has turned the vision of universal benefit into practical results, helping developing countries make up shortfalls in intelligent transformation and putting into practice the development pledge of "leaving no one behind."