As one of the key events of APEC Digital Week 2026, the 2026 APEC High-Level Forum on Artificial Intelligence was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on July 24. Zhuang Rongwen, Director of China's State Internet Information Office; Wang Xiaohui, Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress; Chen Xu, Chairman of the 2026 APEC Senior Officials Meeting; Pedrosa, Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat; and Cao Lijun, member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony of the forum and delivered speeches. Wang Jingtao, deputy director of China's State Internet Information Office, presided over the opening ceremony. Zhuang Rongwen said that in November 2025, at the APEC meeting held in Gyeongju, South Korea, President Xi Jinping expressed important opinions on China using the 2026 APEC host as an opportunity to focus on promoting practical cooperation such as artificial intelligence. A week ago, President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Conference on Artificial Intelligence Global Governance and delivered a keynote speech, further pointing out the direction for global AI development and governance. The Chinese side hosted this forum with the aim of actively implementing the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important speech, deepening exchanges and dialogue, forging broad consensus, and promoting the development of artificial intelligence in the direction of improving goodness and benefiting mankind. We are willing to work with all parties to adhere to innovation-driven, collaborate to strengthen scientific and technological innovation, encourage the common prosperity of artificial intelligence; adhere to inclusive sharing, share development experiences, bridge the digital intelligence divide, and release artificial intelligence development dividends; insist on building a firm bottom line to promote the establishment of laws and regulations, technical monitoring, risk warning, and emergency response systems to ensure the safety and controllability of artificial intelligence; adhere to mutual learning and promote the digitization and intelligent dissemination of outstanding cultural resources, showing the empowering role of artificial intelligence; adhere to joint consultation and construction, and promote the construction of an artificial intelligence governance framework with broad consensus Standard specifications to improve the global governance of artificial intelligence. In the face of opportunities and challenges, China insists on integrated development and security, promotes artificial intelligence for the better, safe and controllable, benefits the people, and actively contributes to the development and governance of global artificial intelligence. Facing the future, we will continue to assume the responsibilities of a major power in the field of artificial intelligence, contribute to China's solutions, be a promoter of innovation and development, a protector of safety and control, a promoter of mutual appreciation of civilizations, and a participant in global governance to promote the better development of artificial intelligence.

As one of the key events of APEC Digital Week 2026, the 2026 APEC High-Level Forum on Artificial Intelligence was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on July 24. Zhuang Rongwen, Director of China's State Internet Information Office; Wang Xiaohui, Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress; Chen Xu, Chairman of the 2026 APEC Senior Officials Meeting; Pedrosa, Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat; and Cao Lijun, member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony of the forum and delivered speeches. Wang Jingtao, deputy director of China's State Internet Information Office, presided over the opening ceremony. Zhuang Rongwen said that in November 2025, at the APEC meeting held in Gyeongju, South Korea, President Xi Jinping expressed important opinions on China using the 2026 APEC host as an opportunity to focus on promoting practical cooperation such as artificial intelligence. A week ago, President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Conference on Artificial Intelligence Global Governance and delivered a keynote speech, further pointing out the direction for global AI development and governance. The Chinese side hosted this forum with the aim of actively implementing the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important speech, deepening exchanges and dialogue, forging broad consensus, and promoting the development of artificial intelligence in the direction of improving goodness and benefiting mankind. We are willing to work with all parties to adhere to innovation-driven, collaborate to strengthen scientific and technological innovation, encourage the common prosperity of artificial intelligence; adhere to inclusive sharing, share development experiences, bridge the digital intelligence divide, and release artificial intelligence development dividends; insist on building a firm bottom line to promote the establishment of laws and regulations, technical monitoring, risk warning, and emergency response systems to ensure the safety and controllability of artificial intelligence; adhere to mutual learning and promote the digitization and intelligent dissemination of outstanding cultural resources, showing the empowering role of artificial intelligence; adhere to joint consultation and construction, and promote the construction of an artificial intelligence governance framework with broad consensus Standard specifications to improve the global governance of artificial intelligence. In the face of opportunities and challenges, China insists on integrated development and security, promotes artificial intelligence for the better, safe and controllable, benefits the people, and actively contributes to the development and governance of global artificial intelligence. Facing the future, we will continue to assume the responsibilities of a major power in the field of artificial intelligence, contribute to China's solutions, be a promoter of innovation and development, a protector of safety and control, a promoter of mutual appreciation of civilizations, and a participant in global governance to promote the better development of artificial intelligence.