The council of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states met on Tuesday in north China's Tianjin Municipality to make comprehensive preparations for the upcoming Tianjin summit.
The foreign ministers conducted in-depth exchanges on various topics and made full political preparations for the Tianjin summit.
They agreed to step up their efforts in five key areas -- carrying forward the "Shanghai Spirit," improving security mechanisms, jointly creating development opportunities, consolidating good-neighborly friendship, and safeguarding fairness and justice.
After the meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced that the SCO Tianjin summit will be held from Aug 31 to September 1. With leaders of over 20 countries and heads of 10 international organizations attending the summit and related events, the upcoming summit is set to be the largest in the history of the SCO.
All the participants spoke highly of the outstanding work and positive outcomes achieved by the Chinese side as the rotating chair of the organization, and expressed their readiness to coordinate and cooperate with China to ensure the success of the Tianjin summit.
"The main task of the foreign ministers' meeting is to make preparations for the summit. Mr. Minister (Wang Yi) has already announced the date of the summit. We have prepared a series of important draft resolutions and statements, including the outcome document which will be submitted to the Council of Heads of State for adoption. We believe that under the leadership of the Chinese chairmanship, we will hold a summit that will be one of the most successful in SCO history," said SCO Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev at a press conference after the meeting.
SCO ministers lay groundwork for upcoming Tianjin summit
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
