Nvidia CEO welcomes decision to allow exports of its AI chips to China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang welcomed the U.S. government's decision that allows the computing giant to sell its H20 artificial intelligence chips to the Chinese market, noting that his company will word hard in the face of growing competition from Chinese chip makers.

Huang last week met with U.S. President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Washington D.C. The CEO on Monday announced that his company plans to resume selling the H20 to China when promoting AI technology in China.

However, he stressed that the days of Nvidia's total market dominance are already left to history.

"The Chinese chips are advancing very quickly and so we will have to do our best," said Huang.

With AI technology rapidly becoming ubiquitous in China, both in everyday life and for commercial and industrial applications, Huang expressed optimism that the chip will attract customers.

"I'm very happy that the export control, the ban, has been lifted on H20, so that we can serve the market. As you know, the AI models recently have advanced very greatly, DeepSeek-R1, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot. And these models are very advanced. And the inference requirement, the processing requirement is very high. And Nvidia's H20 hopper architecture is really ideal for that. And the demand is so great across all of the services. Of course, we have a lot of competition, so we have to work hard," said the CEO.

"Competition is good. We want customers to have choice and we want to make sure that whatever customers have and the market has is the best in the world. And so we have to keep working hard for our customers," he said.

Huang visited China to attend the opening ceremony of the third China International Supply Chain Expo on Wednesday and participate in related activities. This is Huang's third visit to China since the start of 2025.

Nvidia CEO welcomes decision to allow exports of its AI chips to China

Hailing China as a global leader in renewable energy, President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Lee Jae Myung has expressed his strong optimism that deepening cooperation with China in the area will unlock abundant opportunities for his country.

In an interview with the China Media Group in Seoul, capital of the ROK, ahead of his upcoming state visit to China from Jan 4 to 7, Lee highlighted China's remarkable progress in clean energy and technological innovation.

He recalled his previous visits to China during his tenures as the mayor of Seongnam and later as the governor of Gyeonggi Province, when he toured Chinese cities including Chongqing and Dalian. Even then, he spoke highly of China's robust innovation capacity and commitment to high-quality development.

"I have visited China from time to time and witnessed its rapid development. It was almost a completely different country each time I went. China has rapidly transitioned to renewable energy, and it is now a global leader in the renewable energy industry, especially in solar energy," said Lee.

"China possesses truly outstanding capabilities to identify opportunities amid crises and focus national capacities on them to develop new technologies and drive industrial growth. This trend is likely to continue for quite a long period of time, and I anticipate that the cooperative relationship between the ROK and China will open up abundant opportunities for the ROK in this regard," he said.

It will be Lee's first visit to China since taking office in June 2025, and also the first visit to the country by an ROK president since 2019.

It will also marks that the two heads of state have exchanged visits within two months as Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the ROK from Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2025.

Deepening cooperation with China to unlock abundant opportunities for ROK: president