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On October 16, 2026, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued an announcement soliciting public comments on the revision of the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China. According to The Decoder, the draft revision covers 23 key AI technologies including large models, agents, computing clusters and data processing; AI tools capable of autonomously writing or rewriting malware to attack critical infrastructure, military or government agencies are proposed to be fully prohibited from export, and some vulnerability-discovery AI tools face new export restrictions. The report states that large models are regulated when trained on and providing services based on China's important data, or when involving core technologies such as weights, checkpoints, source code, architecture and training and inference methods, with trigger thresholds of training compute reaching 10^26 FLOPs, at least 2 trillion parameters, or entering the global top ten; releasing restricted AI technologies and weights as open source can obtain automatic licensing, use through APIs, applications, websites, SaaS or lightweight on-device versions is not regulated, while deployment on local servers outside China requires applying for a standard export license. Other reports state that Joint Announcement No. 48 of the two departments proposes adding a total of 40 technologies in the three major fields of artificial intelligence, biomedicine and photovoltaics to the catalog, including 23 in artificial intelligence, and immediately implementing interim registration management before the catalog takes effect. The catalog is currently still in the public comment stage.
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Oct 23
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Tan Tan's interpretation of China's AI technology export ban: what it regulates and why it was introduced now
Yuyuan Tantian interprets the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology's public solicitation of comments on the revision of the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China, which involves 23 artificial intelligence technologies including large models, agents, and computing power clusters. The article states that two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have completed registration procedures and finished open-sourcing and overseas authorized use; scenarios in which enterprises use restricted-category large models to provide API calls, APP/webpage interaction, SaaS applications, and lightweight local on-device deployment do not fall within the scope of large-model technology export management. The catalog also sets out facilitation scenarios such as open-source technology, overseas self-built computing power centers, and chip tape-out, and provides quantitative indicators such as computing volume exceeding 10²⁶ floating-point operations and parameters exceeding 2 trillion.
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Oct 17
Shao MengSelected
The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology plan to add 23 AI technologies, including large models and agents, to the export control catalog
The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Joint Announcement No. 48, proposing to add a total of 40 technologies in three major fields—artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and photovoltaics—to the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China. Among them, the 23 AI items cover large models, agents, computing power clusters, and information processing-related technologies, and interim registration management will be implemented immediately before the catalog takes effect. The author's analysis holds that technologies already in the public domain through open source or published papers may be exempted, but parts where only weights are open-sourced while know-how such as training methods and data engineering remains undisclosed are still within the scope of management; agent services such as Manus and Lovart are in principle unaffected, but three structures may trigger registration: deploying the technology stack to overseas servers, exporting Agent technology to overseas entities, or changing control to an overseas entity.
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Oct 16
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The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology plan to revise the technology export catalog, adding 23 artificial intelligence technologies
On October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued an announcement proposing to revise the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China, soliciting public comments on 40 technologies in three fields: artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and photovoltaics, while simultaneously implementing pre-export registration management. The artificial intelligence field involves 23 technologies related to large models, agents, computing power clusters, and information processing; the restricted export section lists specific indicators such as AI chip design, high-speed interconnection of computing power clusters, and fault tolerance in distributed training. The announcement specifies that technologies that have entered the public domain through open source, published academic papers, and other means are not included in the scope of management, and that enterprises using restricted large models to provide external API calls, APP or web interaction, SaaS applications, and local on-device lightweight deployment do not fall within the scope of large model technology export management.
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