Global officials and experts were captivated by groundbreaking AI innovations during the Second AI Capacity Building Workshop, which opened Monday at Tsinghua University in Beijing, hosted by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Officials and experts from 34 countries and international organizations, including ASEAN and the African Union, are participating in the six-day event.
At the Zhongguancun Innovation Zone's exhibition and trading center, visitors were mesmerized by AI's diverse applications, from embodied intelligent robots and smart NEVs to a cloud-based embroidery system that crafts custom designs in just three minutes.
During their visit, foreign envoys eagerly recorded China's AI innovations on their mobile phones, describing the nation's technological advancements as "far beyond amazement".
Additionally, they exchanged contact information with representatives from multiple Chinese enterprises on-site for potential future cooperation. Foreign envoys and business leaders also actively engaged in discussions with Chinese experts and scholars, aiming to advance AI capabilities in their own countries.
"I feel very pleased about everything, about the technical knowledge, about the experience, especially the experience of China. I'm going to bring all [that] good news to my country. Globally, usually the countries that know the most, they don't like to share, especially in the West. But China is using a different approach, and that is very important for us, because we can collaborate, cooperate and work together and that [is a] win-win situation," said Ronald Rodrigo Delgado Cruz, director of the AI Research and Development Department at the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology.
China's sci-tech advancements wow global business leaders at Beijing workshop
China's commitment to its path of opening up will continue as a long-term national strategy and should increasingly be defined by inclusiveness, a national political advisor said Friday.
Zhou Hanmin, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and president of the Shanghai Public Diplomacy Association, made the remarks in an interview with China Media Group (CMG) during the annual political "two sessions" underway in Beijing.
"Opening-up is and has been a long-term national policy and a strategy ever since China opened itself up (to the world) some 48 years ago. Ever since China joined WTO (World Trade Organization), you could see it has fundamentally changed the formats of economic movements. So opening-up is a reference and also a driving force," he said.
Zhou stressed China must also invite less privileged nations to share in the prosperity of a more open world.
"Inclusiveness is one word that should be used to modify China's opening-up. I (previously) submitted a bill in CPPCC for the zero tariff for those least developed nations' exportation to China. Because for each and every China International Import Expo, you can see quite a large number of exhibitors coming from the least developed countries. We need to give them very genuine help. We are just in the situation of that. We just try to do not only with developed nations, but the Global South and rest of the countries, all together," he said.
Zhou's comments come amid the ongoing "two sessions", the annual meetings of China's top legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), and the top political advisory body, the National Committee of the CPPCC. Both bodies serve a five-year term and hold a plenary session each year, generally in March.
The fourth session of the 14th NPC and the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC kicked off in Beijing on Thursday and Wednesday, respectively. A main focus is the adoption of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), a key blueprint guiding China's drive toward modernization. When asked about key signals from the plan that the international community should closely watch, Zhou outlined several key issues.
"We are now carrying on this Five-Year Plan in the most crucial period of time. We are going to generally modernize the country (in) another 10 years. In this five-year period of time, we need to focus more on creation. Creation not necessarily in the field of technology. Creation means the modernization of the governance, create lots of new things in the system and methods of governance. This is also important," Zhou said.
"The modernization of industrial systems, the further expansion of the ability of consumption, and we try to know very well the longevity, whatever solves people's daily needs. The last but not least, we try to understand fully international collaboration. Opening-up is still a driving force," he said.
China's opening-up should continue path of inclusiveness: political advisor
China's opening-up should continue path of inclusiveness: political advisor
