China proposes export controls on artificial intelligence technology.
Today's events
Technology export controls.
The commerce and science ministries opened comment on adding 40 artificial-intelligence, biomedicine and solar technologies to China's export-control catalogue; 14 banned outright, 26 licensed.1Oct 16 · Commerce MinistryProducer prices jump.
Factory-gate prices rose 5.0% from a year earlier in September and 1.2% on the month, led by a 25.4% surge in mining prices.2Oct 14 · Statistics BureauXi on Party discipline.
Xi's January 12 speech, republished in Qiushi October 15, binds strict Party governance to delivering the 15th Five-Year Plan.3Oct 15 · QiushiResearch spending.
National research and development spending reached 3.93 trillion yuan in 2025, or 2.80% of economic output; basic research rose 13.3%.4Oct 16 · Statistics BureauPremier's Eurasia tour.
China's premier visits Uzbekistan and Tajikistan this week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation premiers' meeting, then Moscow for annual talks with Russia.5Oct 15 · Foreign MinistryHydrogen scales up.
China produces over 39 million tonnes of hydrogen a year, over half the world's capacity; the new five-year plan counts it as non-fossil energy.6Oct 16 · Energy AdministrationCanton Fair at seventy.
China's oldest trade fair opened in Guangzhou in its seventieth year, drawing more than 300,000 overseas buyers; the premier warned against protectionism.7Oct 14 · Commerce MinistryNew productive forces.
Party leadership and the State Council issued 19 tasks for “new quality productive forces,” correcting local copycat bets on future industries.8Oct 9 · Reform CommissionCentral bank warning.
China's central bank governor told Group of 20 finance chiefs in Bangkok that geopolitical conflict and artificial-intelligence asset valuations are the main financial risks.9Oct 15 · Central Bank
Voices
“Alignment with the Party Centre must show in how major decisions are actually carried out — not in empty slogans, still less in saying one thing and doing another.”
Xi Jinping, Communist Party General Secretary · Jan 12, in Qiushi Oct 153
“The purpose is to shore up the security baseline, prevent abuse and malicious use, and ensure artificial intelligence always remains under human control.”
Commerce Ministry spokesperson · Oct 161
“If you impose export controls with one hand and expect balanced trade with the other, that is unrealistic; it raises costs and worsens the imbalance.”
Premier Li Qiang, Canton Fair opening, Guangzhou · Oct 147
“Geopolitical conflict remains the biggest uncertainty for the global economy. Sovereign-bond swings and the risk of a correction in artificial-intelligence asset valuations are deepening financial fragility.”
Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China · Oct 159
“Japan's leaders bow again and again before what is in fact a shrine to war criminals. Where is their conscience?”
Mao Ning, Foreign Ministry spokesperson · Oct 155
“Stick to these four principles so that new quality productive forces develop without deviation, without recklessness, and without turning into a bubble.”
Official, China's central planning agency · Oct 98
Sources
- Ministry of Commerce (商务部), “Commerce Ministry spokesperson answers questions on revising the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export” (Announcement No. 48 of 2026, with the Ministry of Science and Technology), October 16, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/…/export-technology-catalogue
- National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), “Producer prices for industrial products rose 5.0% year on year in September 2026, up 1.2% month on month,” October 14, 2026. stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/…/ppi-september-2026
- Qiushi (求是), via the Cyberspace Administration of China, Xi Jinping, “Advancing Full and Rigorous Party Self-Governance with Higher Standards and More Practical Measures” (speech of January 12, 2026 to the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection), published October 15, 2026. cac.gov.cn/2026-10/15/…/xi-party-self-governance
- National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Finance, “Statistical Bulletin on National Spending on Science and Technology, 2025,” October 16, 2026. stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/…/rd-spending-2025
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部), “Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning's Regular Press Conference,” October 15, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt/fyrbt/…/mao-ning-oct-15
- National Energy Administration (国家能源局), “China's hydrogen industry enters the fast lane,” October 16, 2026. nea.gov.cn/20261016/…/hydrogen-fast-lane
- Ministry of Commerce (商务部), Li Qiang, “Keynote Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 140th China Import and Export Fair” (full text), October 14, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/ldrhd/…/canton-fair-140-keynote
- National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), “Officials answer questions on the Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces,” October 9, 2026. ndrc.gov.cn/xwdt/xwfb/…/new-quality-productive-forces
- People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), “Governor Pan Gongsheng attends the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting,” October 15, 2026. pbc.gov.cn/goutongjiaoliu/…/g20-bangkok