Cyberspace Administration of China's "National Informatization 14th Five-Year Plan": Build three systems, raise five levels, consolidate two supports, and deploy tasks in 10 areas

The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has issued the "National Informatization '15th Five-Year Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), making deployment arrangements for systematically and deeply advancing national informatization development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. It is an action guide for guiding and advancing informatization work in all regions and relevant departments.

The Plan emphasizes the need to adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thought on building a cyber power, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, solidly promote high-quality development, deeply implement the cyber power strategy, focus on building a new information infrastructure system, a cybersecurity and informatization scientific and technological innovation system, and a cybersecurity and informatization industrial ecosystem, focus on improving the levels of modern governance, information benefiting the people, coordinated digitalization and greening, regional coordination, and open development, focus on consolidating support for security safeguards and laws and standards, and comprehensively improve the digital, networked and intelligent level of the economy and society, providing strong momentum and solid support for advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

The Plan proposes that by 2030, China's informatization will have made major progress, and its role in advancing Chinese modernization will be more prominent. Information infrastructure will consolidate and expand its leading advantages, a three-dimensional network system spanning land, sea, air and space will basically take shape, the new-generation communications network will be fully built, commercial use of sixth-generation mobile communications (6G) will be launched in due course, the national blockchain network will be basically completed, and the layout and development of the intelligent internet will be accelerated. Cybersecurity and informatization scientific and technological innovation capabilities will be significantly enhanced, the scientific and technological innovation system will be more sound, and breakthroughs will be made in key core technologies in key fields. The cybersecurity and informatization industrial ecosystem will flourish and develop, digital technology and the real economy will be deeply integrated, and the comprehensive strength of cybersecurity and informatization enterprises will be significantly enhanced. The level of digital, networked and intelligent application in the economy and society will reach a new stage, and the ability to empower economic and social development and governance will be markedly improved. Cybersecurity safeguards will be solid and powerful, the system of laws and standards will be more complete, and the concept of a community with a shared future in cyberspace will be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Focusing on the development goals of the "15th Five-Year Plan", the Plan proposes an overall layout of "building three systems, improving five levels, and consolidating two supports", and deploys specific tasks in 10 areas. First, build a new information infrastructure system; second, build a cybersecurity and informatization scientific and technological innovation system; third, build a cybersecurity and informatization industrial ecosystem; fourth, improve the level of modern governance; fifth, improve the level of information benefiting the people; sixth, improve the level of coordinated digitalization and greening; seventh, improve the level of regional coordination; eighth, improve the level of open development; ninth, consolidate security safeguard support; and tenth, consolidate legal and standards support. Seven special columns are set up, namely the information infrastructure innovation and development project, the cybersecurity and informatization scientific and technological innovation breakthrough project, the cybersecurity and informatization industrial ecosystem development project, the intelligent society development and governance action, the key regional informatization coordinated development action, the cybersecurity and informatization enterprise overseas development action, and the action to facilitate cross-border data flows.

The Plan emphasizes giving play to the coordinating role of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, with the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission improving the national informatization development coordination mechanism, strengthening departmental coordination, central-local linkage, and classified guidance, organizing monitoring and evaluation of implementation, and promoting the effective implementation of all tasks.

The full text of the Plan is as follows: National Informatization "15th Five-Year Plan"

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's informatization development is in a new stage of comprehensive leapfrogging in digitalization, networking and intelligence, and plays a strategic, overall and leading role in Chinese modernization. In order to systematically and deeply advance national informatization development, this Plan is formulated in accordance with the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and relevant deployments for building a cyber power.

I. Overall Requirements

Adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thought on building a cyber power, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, solidly promote high-quality development, deeply implement the cyber power strategy, focus on building a new information infrastructure system, a cybersecurity and informatization scientific and technological innovation system, and a cybersecurity and informatization industrial ecosystem, focus on improving the levels of modern governance, information benefiting the people, coordinated digitalization and greening, regional coordination, and open development, focus on consolidating support for security safeguards and laws and standards, and comprehensively improve the digital, networked and intelligent level of the economy and society, providing strong momentum and solid support for advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

By 2030, China's informatization will have made major progress, and its role in advancing Chinese modernization will be more prominent. Information infrastructure will consolidate and expand its leading advantages, a three-dimensional network system spanning land, sea, air and space will basically take shape, the new-generation communications network will be fully built, commercial use of sixth-generation mobile communications (6G) will be launched in due course, the national blockchain network will be basically completed, and the layout and development of the intelligent internet will be accelerated. Cybersecurity and informatization scientific and technological innovation capabilities will be significantly enhanced, the scientific and technological innovation system will be more sound, and breakthroughs will be made in key core technologies in key fields. The cybersecurity and informatization industrial ecosystem will flourish and develop, digital technology and the real economy will be deeply integrated, and the comprehensive strength of cybersecurity and informatization enterprises will be significantly enhanced. The level of digital, networked and intelligent application in the economy and society will reach a new stage, and the ability to empower economic and social development and governance will be markedly improved. Cybersecurity safeguards will be solid and powerful, the system of laws and standards will be more complete, and the concept of a community with a shared future in cyberspace will be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

2 Number of 5G (including 5G-A) base stations per 10,000 people (units) 34 50 Expected

3 Proportion of IPv6 network traffic (%) 33.79 42 Expected

4 Power usage effectiveness (PUE) of newly built large and ultra-large computing facilities 1.25 90 Expected

8 Value-added of core digital economy industries as a share of GDP (%) 10.5 * 12.5 Expected

9 Proportion of enterprises with comprehensive digitalization in key business processes (%) 62 70 Expected

10 Scale of cross-border e-commerce imports and exports (trillion yuan) 2.84 3.5 Expected

11 Share of adults with advanced digital literacy and skills (%) 16.26 * 25 Expected

12 Coverage rate of the population applying for electronic social security cards (%) 78.6 90 Expected

Accelerate the construction of the new-generation communications network, deepen the large-scale deployment of fifth-generation mobile communications (5G) and gigabit optical networks, and advance the development of fifth-generation mobile communications evolution (5G-A) and 10-gigabit optical networks. Accelerate 6G technology research and development, standards development, and application verification. Deepen IPv6 technological innovation and integrated application, and promote the formation of a network service and application system led by IPv6. Accelerate the construction and application of satellite internet, and deepen the large-scale application and promotion of BeiDou. Develop direct-to-satellite services for terminal devices, and advance the integrated development of satellite and terrestrial networks. Promote in an orderly manner the construction of digital low-altitude infrastructure. Strengthen the construction of international submarine and terrestrial cables, optimize the layout of international communications gateway offices, and enhance international communications capacity.

(2) Improve integrated application infrastructure

Implement the national blockchain network construction project and consolidate the foundation of the Internet of Value. Accelerate the building of a nationally integrated computing power network and promote the coordinated development of computing power, electricity, and networks. Optimize the layout of general computing power, intelligent computing power, and supercomputing power. Explore forward-looking research and technological layout for space computing power. Steadily build infrastructure for data circulation and utilization. Build new-type industrial networks and promote independent iteration of the mobile Internet of Things. Build new-type radio and television networks. Advance the digital and intelligent upgrading of infrastructure in transportation, energy, municipal administration, water conservancy, and other fields.

(3) Lay out and develop the intelligent internet

Deepen the integrated development of artificial intelligence and information networks, strengthen the strategic layout of the intelligent internet, and advance intelligent development across the entire chain of networks, platforms, terminals, applications, and services. Develop foundational network large models and enhance the intelligent operation capability of networks. Promote the standardized application and innovative development of intelligent agents, accelerate the development of AI terminals and intelligent applications, and expand new forms of the intelligent economy.

Box 2 Information Infrastructure Innovation and Development Project

1. Intelligent internet. Research intelligent native network architectures. Build a standards system for the intelligent internet and formulate standards for network intelligence, cloud-network-computing-intelligence integration, and intelligent agent communications. Build intelligent internet test facilities and carry out experimental verification of key technologies and applications of the intelligent internet.

2. National blockchain network. Accelerate the completion of the central backbone network and advance the networked operation of regional hubs. Improve basic common service capabilities such as distributed digital identity. Deepen the digitalization of aviation (cargo) trade to expand scope, improve quality, and increase volume, and tap major application scenarios such as development and reform, transformation and carbon reduction, government affairs, and taxation.

3. IPv6 evolution and upgrading. Improve the "IPv6+" technology system, deepen the popularization and application of technologies such as IPv6 segment routing (SRv6), network slicing, and in-situ flow detection, and make breakthroughs in frontier technologies such as application-aware networking, new multicast, and resilient networks. Deepen integrated innovation between IPv6 and scenarios such as large model training and inference, and promote support for IPv6 access in generative large model applications. Advance technical research and deployment of IPv6 single-stack technology.

III. Build a cybersecurity and informatization science and technology innovation system

(1) Enhance basic research and original innovation capacity

Strengthen basic theoretical research in computational mathematics, communications networks, data science, and other fields. Strengthen research on systems engineering technology, promote research on distributed systems and their reliability, scalability, and other architectures, and deepen research on design optimization methods for computer architecture and basic software. Accelerate the development of disciplines and specialties in the informatization field and advance interdisciplinary research. Accelerate exploration of AI-driven new scientific research paradigms and technology R&D models.

(2) Make breakthroughs in key core technologies

Refine mature-process chips and improve advanced-process manufacturing capabilities, and advance breakthroughs and applications of technologies such as compute-in-memory, 3D integration, and optoelectronic integration. Promote the integrated development of operating systems, software development toolchains, and other areas with artificial intelligence. Promote research on AI theories and algorithms such as foundation models, brain-inspired intelligence, and swarm intelligence. Strengthen R&D on new database architectures. Make forward-looking arrangements for communications technologies such as deep-space and deep-sea communications and new optical networks.

(3) Promote deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation

Explore the establishment of cybersecurity and informatization technology innovation centers and industrial ecosystem centers, strengthen research on key common technologies, and cultivate and expand the industrial ecosystem. Accelerate the efficient transformation and application of innovation achievements, deploy and build a batch of proof-of-concept and pilot verification platforms, and increase the construction and opening of application scenarios. Build high-level open-source communities, implement high-quality open-source projects, and gather and cultivate outstanding open-source developers. Improve the intellectual property protection system in emerging fields.

Box 3 Cybersecurity and Informatization Science and Technology Innovation Breakthrough Project

1. Basic software. Continuously optimize technologies such as open-source operating system kernels, basic libraries, and engines, and develop cross-platform compatibility technologies. Develop AI-native databases and next-generation distributed databases.

2. Industrial software. Develop technologies such as geometric modeling, constraint solving, and mesh generation, and promote iterative optimization of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), electronic design automation (EDA), and other software.

3. Intelligent technology. Develop high-performance AI chips and highly available basic software stacks. Lay out technologies for highly intelligent mobile phones, computers, wearable devices, and other products. Develop embodied intelligence technologies such as unmanned vehicle terminals and humanoid robots.

4. Quantum technology. Accelerate R&D in quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum precision measurement, and other technologies. Promote research on quantum security protection technologies and accelerate research on post-quantum cryptography.

5. Brain-computer interfaces. Promote the R&D and application of brain-computer interface systems, and develop systems and devices for signal acquisition, neural decoding, disease diagnosis and treatment, and virtual-real control.

6. Digital twins. Innovate technologies such as data acquisition and transmission, modeling and simulation, real-time rendering, and human-computer interaction, and promote the R&D of general-purpose support platforms and software tools. Build multimodal digital twin information models, and advance R&D in technologies such as simulation-based control decision-making and data-model fusion decision-making.

7. Bioinformatics. Promote collaborative innovation between artificial intelligence and biotechnology, and carry out technical breakthroughs in bioinformatics data analysis, structure prediction, and other areas. Deepen integrated innovation in fields such as bioinformatics, synthetic biology, and gene editing, and develop new biomanufacturing technologies.

IV. Build an Ecosystem for the Internet and Information Industry

(1) Cultivate New Industries and New Tracks

Consolidate advantages in industries such as mobile communications, intelligent connected vehicles, and drones, and cultivate technology products with international leadership in fields such as integrated circuits, new displays, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. Build a full-chain cultivation system for future industries, accelerate the industrialization and application of technologies such as quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and 6G, and explore diverse technology routes, typical application scenarios, feasible business models, and market regulation rules. Improve the foundational systems for data factors, deepen the development and utilization of data resources, and strengthen, optimize, and expand the digital economy.

Box 4: Internet and Information Industry Ecosystem Development Project

1. Operating systems. Continuously improve the compatibility of desktop and server operating systems, accelerate application adaptation for mobile operating systems, and support the R&D of related products.

2. Databases. Build a database testing and validation platform covering a full range of scenarios, and promote software and hardware adaptation validation, tool R&D, and integrated innovation of emerging technologies for database products.

3. The fifth-generation reduced instruction set computing (RISC-V). Accelerate RISC-V R&D, promote the integrated development of RISC-V and artificial intelligence, and improve the software and hardware toolchains.

4. Agents. Promote mutual trust, interconnection, and interoperability among agents, and accelerate the development of multi-agent systems, agent swarms, and similar technologies. Formulate demand guidelines for key scenarios, build a maturity evaluation system for agent technology, and develop standards such as agent identity identifiers.

(2) Empower the Optimization and Upgrading of Traditional Industries

Develop smart agriculture, promote the digital transformation of the entire agricultural industry chain, and popularize the application of technical equipment such as smart agricultural machinery. Promote the "intelligent transformation, digital upgrading, and network connectivity" of the manufacturing industry, and further advance the special action for digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises. Accelerate the upgrading and replacement of industrial control systems in key enterprises. Implement the "AI + Manufacturing" action, and promote the coordinated development of the industrial internet and key industrial chains. Accelerate the development of intelligent construction. Deepen the expansion and quality improvement of the service industry, promote the digital transformation of producer services, and expand digital application scenarios for consumer services. Promote the standardized and healthy development of the platform economy. Vigorously promote digital consumption and innovate diversified service consumption scenarios. Steadily develop the digital renminbi. Promote and standardize the application of electronic documents.

(3) Promote the High-Quality Development of Internet and Information Enterprises

Improve the categorized and tiered cultivation and service work mechanism, and cultivate ecosystem-leading enterprises with global influence, industry-leading enterprises in segmented fields, and high-growth innovative enterprises. Strengthen the principal role of Internet and information enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, and support capable enterprises in taking the lead in undertaking national science and technology research tasks.

V. Improve the Level of Modern Governance

(1) Improve the Level of E-Government Services

Improve the national e-government network. Implement the "AI + Government" application improvement action, and safely, prudently, and orderly advance the deployment and application of large AI models and agents in the government affairs field. Strengthen informatization support for scientific decision-making, emergency command, social security, and other areas, and improve the informatization work level of departments at all levels. Strengthen the sharing and utilization of government data. Deepen mutual recognition and extensive application of electronic documents, electronic seals, electronic licenses, and similar items.

(2) Advance Digital Empowerment of Community-Level Work

Promote the development and governance of an intelligent society. Optimize the functions of the national integrated online government service platform, expand the scope of "inter-provincial handling," and expand the scenarios covered by "efficiently completing one matter." Strengthen standardized management of government mobile internet applications, and deepen efforts to prevent and address "formalism at the fingertips" and "vanity projects" in government services. Promote the application and rollout of the "one form for all" system, advance the one-time collection and multi-party sharing of community-level government data, and promote the return of government data to the community level.

Box 5: Intelligent Society Development and Governance Action

1. Build an intelligent service system. Deepen the application of artificial intelligence in livelihood fields such as education, healthcare, housing, elderly care, and sports, promote the sharing, reuse, and precise matching of public service resources, and advance the construction of intelligent convenient living circles. Cultivate new occupations in an intelligent society, improve employment matching mechanisms and transfer channels, and improve the insurance participation mechanism for new forms of employment.

2. Improve intelligent social governance capabilities. Steadily advance the application of artificial intelligence in fields such as government services, judicial services, urban management, community governance, and market regulation, improve the scientific nature of government decision-making and the refinement of social governance, and strengthen intelligent oversight and regulation. Deepen the application of intelligent monitoring and inspection, strengthen real-time identification and early warning of public safety risks and hidden dangers, and improve the ability to predict and respond to extreme weather and emergencies.

3. Improve the mechanism for building an intelligent society. Steadily carry out social experiments on artificial intelligence, deepen the construction of national experimental bases for intelligent social governance, and explore the conduct of social impact assessments of artificial intelligence.

VI. Improve the Level of Information Benefiting the People

(1) Improve the Informatization Level of Livelihood Services

Deepen the national education digitalization strategy and improve the national smart education public service platform. Advance the digital and intelligent development of health care, and enhance the digital and intelligent management efficiency of medical insurance for all. Optimize the supply of public digital cultural services, and advance the development and opening of digital resources for traditional culture. Improve the level of informatization services in community life, transportation, tourism, sports, and other areas. Improve informatization services for social security, strengthen the public service platform for social insurance, and expand the application of the "one-card" resident service function of social security cards. Optimize smart elderly care and disability assistance services, and promote age-friendly and barrier-free transformation of internet applications. Innovate and expand employment information services, and cultivate and develop new forms of work such as intelligent agents.

(2) Improve Digital Literacy and Skills for All

Improve the system for cultivating digital literacy and skills, and build and make good use of training bases for digital literacy and skills for all. Strengthen the supply of high-quality digital resources and keep channels for openness and sharing unobstructed. Implement a special action to improve artificial intelligence literacy for all, and strengthen artificial intelligence education at all stages of schooling and general education for the whole society. Accelerate the building of a vocational education system for informatization talent and improve the lifelong learning system.

VII. Improve the Level of Coordinated Digital and Green Development

(1) Develop Digital and Green Production Methods

Promote green design and operation of computing facilities, communication base stations, and other infrastructure, and develop new models such as diversified direct green power connections and source-grid-load-storage integration. Advance the empowerment of traditional industries by digital and intelligent technologies for green transformation, and promote equipment renewal, process optimization, and management innovation. Improve the level of digital carbon emission management, and optimize carbon footprint management across the entire product life cycle. Improve the recycling and treatment system for waste electrical and electronic products.

(2) Promote a Green and Smart Lifestyle

Improve the digital and green level of urban operations. Enrich green and smart lifestyle scenarios, and promote green lifestyles such as e-commerce, mobile payment, the sharing economy, smart travel, and digital homes. Improve incentive mechanisms for green consumption, and explore the establishment of a points system that can be redeemed and used both online and offline. Use digital technology to improve the certification capacity for green products and services.

(3) Strengthen Digital Governance for Green Development

Implement actions for the development and application of artificial intelligence in the ecological environment. Improve the level of informatization application in natural resource management and territorial spatial planning. Advance digital water conservancy construction, and improve basin flood control and water resource management and allocation. Advance smart emergency response construction, and tighten the monitoring and early warning network for disasters and accidents.

VIII. Improve the Level of Regional Coordination

(1) Serve the Implementation of Major Regional Strategies

Support the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in building highlands for informatization innovation and development, promote the central region's use of information technology innovation to lead industrial innovation, support the western region in developing distinctive and advantageous cyber and information industries, and accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional manufacturing in the northeast region. Support Hainan in building a high-standard free trade port and creating a window for global digital openness and cooperation. Support Hong Kong and Macao in better integrating into the overall national informatization development and advance the development of digital finance, digital trade, and other areas.

(2) Promote Connectivity and Co-construction and Sharing

Optimize the regional spatial layout of information infrastructure, and build a national integrated computing network monitoring and scheduling system. Strengthen cross-regional coordinated development of the cyber and information industry, deepen collaboration across industrial chains, innovation chains, and supply chains, and build an industrial ecosystem with complementary advantages. Improve the informatization level of cross-regional public services, and around key areas such as education, health care, culture and tourism, elderly care, and disability assistance, promote more matters to achieve online mutual recognition of qualifications, data interoperability, and service sharing.

(3) Promote the Integrated Development of Urban and Rural Informatization

Advance the all-domain digital transformation of cities, improve the city information modeling (CIM) platform, and enhance the intelligence and refinement of urban governance. Implement actions for high-quality development of digital villages, and promote the integrated development of digitalization of rural industries, informatization of rural construction, and smart rural governance. Promote coordinated planning and simultaneous implementation of digital villages and smart cities, and promote balanced development of urban and rural information infrastructure, integrated application of data resources, and inclusive sharing of information services.

Box 6: Key Regional Informatization Coordinated Development Actions

1. Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Promote collaborative innovation in fields such as artificial intelligence and integrated circuits, and improve key industrial chains such as intelligent connected vehicles and robots. Optimize the layout of regional computing infrastructure and improve the level of connectivity and utilization. Advance blockchain empowerment of scenarios such as the "dual aviation hubs" and smart logistics. Support Xiong'an in accelerating the development of industrial ecosystems such as aerospace information and RISC-V.

2. Yangtze River Delta. Jointly promote technological innovation and industrial development in fields such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, quantum technology, and brain-computer interfaces. Advance the integrated application of 5G-A networks and 10-gigabit optical networks, and deepen blockchain empowerment of key fields such as trade and finance. Expand the Yangtze River Delta "cross-provincial handling" list, and include more high-frequency services in the "one-network handling" platform.

3. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Strengthen advantageous industries such as integrated circuits, the low-altitude economy, and unmanned aerial vehicles (vessels). Build international communications infrastructure that meets the needs of scientific and technological innovation. Accelerate innovative applications of blockchain. Promote the orderly cross-border flow of data and "cross-border handling" of government services. Host international events such as the Asia-Pacific Summit of the World Internet Conference.

4. Chengdu-Chongqing region. Accelerate the development of industrial clusters such as integrated circuits, new displays, smart terminals, intelligent connected vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Jointly advance the construction of "Digital Chongqing" and "Smart Chengdu," and promote more public services to be handled on a same-city, undifferentiated basis. Promote large-scale application of blockchain in fields such as commerce and circulation, manufacturing, and agricultural development.

IX. Improve the Level of Open Development

(1) Deepen Exchanges and Cooperation in Cyberspace

Deepen the promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping's concepts and propositions on building a community with a shared future in cyberspace. Give play to the primary channel role of the United Nations, deepen exchanges and cooperation through multilateral and bilateral mechanisms, and actively participate in the formulation of international rules and standards in fields such as artificial intelligence, the digital economy, and infrastructure. Support the development of international organizations such as the World Internet Conference, the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, and the World Data Organization, create public goods with global influence, and promote the holding in China of more substantive and effective international events.

(2) Expand the Opening Up of Digital Services

Promote the orderly expansion of opening up in fields such as telecommunications and the internet, and increase the opening up of the software and information services industries. Enhance the convenience of digital services for overseas personnel entering China. Give play to the role of pilot free trade zones and the Hainan Free Trade Port to promote the development of digital trade. Implement the action for the overseas development of cyberspace enterprises, support cyberspace enterprises in steadily and orderly expanding overseas business, and strengthen the protection of overseas rights and interests.

Box 7: Action for the Overseas Development of Cyberspace Enterprises

1. Support cyberspace enterprises in "going global." Support advantageous enterprises in orderly "going global," promote the coordinated development of overseas business among upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, deepen international exchanges and cooperation in fields such as information infrastructure, artificial intelligence, e-government, e-commerce, mobile payments, and digital transformation, and support cyberspace enterprises in participating in the formulation of international standards.

2. Improve services for going global. Explore the establishment of overseas business compliance guidance centers for key markets, and strengthen compliance guidance services for cyberspace enterprises going global. Improve risk monitoring and early warning mechanisms, build a case database of legal disputes involving cyberspace enterprises going global, and improve legal services and training.

X. Consolidate Support for Security Guarantees

(1) Strengthen Security Guarantees for New Technologies and New Applications

Promote technological innovation and industrial development in cybersecurity, and encourage the development of secure and reliable information products and services. Improve the agile governance mechanism for artificial intelligence, and strengthen the construction of the artificial intelligence cryptography protection system. Optimize the filing mechanism for generative artificial intelligence, establish a security risk assessment system for applications in key fields, and improve the assessment and filing of new forms such as intelligent agents, on-device large models, and anthropomorphic interactive services. Advance the research, development, and application of vulnerability discovery and protection technologies based on large models. Strengthen cybersecurity risk prevention for satellite internet. Enhance the ability to respond to security risks of intelligent connected vehicles.

(2) Improve the Level of Data Security and Personal Information Protection

Strengthen classified and graded management of data in key industries, deepen the application of technologies such as blockchain and privacy-preserving computing in data circulation and transactions, and strengthen cryptographic protection for data security. Promote and regulate cross-border data flows, and efficiently implement systems such as security assessments for data export, standard contracts for personal information export, and certification for personal information export. Promote the national online identity authentication public service. Promote the application of mutual recognition of distributed digital identities. Strengthen testing and assessment of personal information protection in smart devices, and strengthen the management of the technical application of biometric information.

Box 8: Action to Enhance the Facilitation of Cross-Border Data Flows

1. Deepen institutional implementation. Organize key industries and fields to formulate compliance guidelines for cross-border data flows, and support pilot free trade zones in formulating and issuing negative lists for data export.

2. Enhance service capabilities. Explore the establishment of cross-border data service centers to provide one-stop services such as policy interpretation, compliance guidance, and assistance with applications, and guide and help data processors improve their compliance capabilities.

3. Strengthen platform support. Build a network data security compliance experimentation platform, and carry out research and development of software, tools, and platforms around needs such as security assessments for data export, data security risk assessments, and compliance audits and certification for personal information protection.

4. Expand international cooperation. In accordance with the principle of reciprocity and mutual benefit, carry out cross-border data exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries in key fields such as healthcare, intelligent connected vehicles, technology finance, artificial intelligence, and trade logistics.

XI. Consolidate Support from Laws and Standards

(1) Improve Legislation in the Cyber Field

Advance foundational legislation on artificial intelligence, the digital economy, telecommunications, cybercrime prevention and control, and combating online violence. Strengthen legislative research in emerging fields such as autonomous driving and the low-altitude economy. Improve the system of laws and regulations in fields such as cybersecurity, data security, personal information protection, and informatization development, and increase the supply of laws and regulations for the governance of new technologies, new applications, and new business forms. Focus on hot issues such as artificial intelligence, personal information protection, and online ecosystem governance, and research and issue relevant judicial interpretations. Expand the construction of foreign-related cyber rule of law.

(2) Advance the Construction of Informatization Standards

Improve the technical standards system in fields such as integrated circuits, blockchain, operating systems, and databases, accelerate the development of standards in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and intelligent agents and smart terminals, and lay out standards for frontier technologies such as quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces, and embodied intelligence. Build strong standardization technical organizations in the informatization field, and promote the publicity, implementation, and application of standards. Strengthen the training of standardization talent and promote the digital transformation of standards. Actively participate in the formulation of international standards in the informatization field, and promote the transformation of national standards into international standards.

XII. Organization and Implementation

Strengthen the Party's overall leadership over informatization work, give play to the coordinating role of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, and have the Cyberspace Administration of China improve the national informatization development coordination mechanism, strengthen departmental coordination, central-local linkage, and classified guidance, organize the monitoring and evaluation of implementation, regularly release national informatization development reports, and promote the effective implementation of all tasks. In accordance with regulations, make coordinated and good use of various types of fiscal funds and industrial funds, develop and strengthen patient capital, long-term capital, and strategic capital, and guide financial institutions to support the development of the cyberspace industry. Strengthen the building of the informatization talent team, comprehensively enhance the informatization performance capabilities of leading cadres, and increase efforts to cultivate interdisciplinary and cross-field composite talent. Strengthen publicity and guidance, broadly build social consensus, and stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole society in promoting informatization development. www.smartcity.team

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