China on Tuesday released its first regulations to promote and standardize the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in meteorology, encouraging, facilitating, and regulating the healthy and orderly development of AI meteorological services.
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) has launched a series of AI meteorological forecasting models trained on domestic data, which are now in operational use.
The newly released regulations mark the first legal framework on AI meteorological services among World Meteorological Organization members, providing a Chinese solution for the governance of AI meteorological applications.
"The introduction of these regulations aims to define a 'track' for AI meteorological application services, integrating the promotion of innovation with law-based governance, and promoting the healthy and orderly development of AI meteorological services in a beneficial, safe, and equitable manner," said Sang Ruixing, deputy head of CMA's Department of Policy and Regulations.
The CMA said it will continue to advance the development of AI in the field of meteorological services, establishing collaborative development and governance mechanisms together with enterprises, universities and research institutions, and engaging all sectors of society to jointly promote the application and development of AI in meteorology.
China releases 1st regulations on AI meteorological applications
China aims to achieve secure and reliable supply of key core artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by 2027, with its industrial scale and empowerment level remaining among the world's forefront, according to a recent government action plan.
The plan, jointly issued by eight departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China, and the National Development and Reform Commission, outlines an ambitious push to deeply integrate AI with the manufacturing sector, foster new quality productive forces and comprehensively empower new industrialization. By 2027, the plan targets the deep application of three to five general-purpose large AI models in manufacturing, the development of specialized, full-coverage industry-specific large models, the creation of 100 high-quality industrial datasets, and the promotion of 500 typical application scenarios.
It also aims to cultivate two to three globally influential ecosystem-leading enterprises, a batch of specialized and sophisticated small and medium-sized enterprises, and a group of enabling service providers proficient in both AI technology and industry know-how.
Furthermore, China plans to build a world-leading open-source ecosystem, enhance security governance capabilities, and contribute Chinese solutions to global AI development.
The document outlines measures including promoting the coordinated development of AI chips' hardware and software, supporting innovations in model training and inference methods, fostering key industry-specific large models, and deeply embedding large model technology into core production processes.
The plan also emphasizes making breakthroughs in key technologies such as security protection for industrial model algorithms and training data protection.
China aims for secure, reliable supply of AI core tech by 2027
