Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Monday chaired a State Council executive meeting, which heard reports on artificial intelligence (AI) development, and reviewed the current foreign trade situation and related work on building China into a trading powerhouse.
The meeting also approved an action plan for carbon peaking and a national health plan during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030).
On AI, the meeting stressed the need to gain a deep understanding of the technology's evolving trend, improve supportive policies and governance system, and firmly grasp the initiative in development.
It called for breakthroughs in innovation, faster progress in key technologies and hyper-scale intelligent computing clusters, stronger high-quality data supply, and better access to talent and funding to support enterprises in basic research and frontier exploration.
Leveraging China's complete industrial system and rich application scenarios, the meeting urged accelerated large-scale commercial deployment of intelligent products and services.
It also called for upholding bottom line of safety for artificial intelligence and strengthening international cooperation on AI governance.
The meeting also underscored the need to step up support for both credit and credit insurance to maintain the good momentum of foreign trade.
It also called for expanding imports of high-quality goods and services, and promoting balanced growth of imports and exports.
The meeting highlighted the strategic guiding role of peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality in driving economic restructuring and fostering new green growth drivers.
Noting that accelerated advancement of the Healthy China Initiative has continued to improve public health, the meeting called for stronger coordination among medical services, insurance and disease control to deliver systematic, continuous, high-quality and efficient health services to the public.
Chinese premier chairs meeting on AI development, foreign trade
The framework agreement recently reached between Israel and Lebanon faces serious challenges in its implementation, according to Israeli experts.
After several days of negotiations brokered by the United States, Israel and Lebanon reached a new trilateral framework agreement aimed at ending the conflict in southern Lebanon.
The agreement was signed by the U.S., Israel and Lebanon on Friday at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. It calls for the disarming of all non-governmental armed factions in Lebanon, the deployment of the Lebanese army in southern areas of the country and a complete Israeli withdrawal back to the border.
Hezbollah says it will oppose the agreement and work to defeat it politically and practically. The group did not wait long before making a very public stand.
Just minutes after the announcement in Washington, thousands of Hezbollah supporters took to the streets of the Lebanese capital Beirut late Friday vowing to stand firmly against the agreement.
Parliament members aligned with Hezbollah added that the government has no authority to sign such a deal and it will therefore never stand.
"There is no way any Lebanese government could implement any agreement signed with Israel because it doesn't have the strength, it doesn't have the means and because of Hezbollah being in the opposition and holding the government by its throat," said Dr. Jacques Neriah, an analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will not withdraw from the security zone they maintain in Lebanese territory before Hezbollah is disarmed.
"It is up to the seriousness by the Lebanese military and until such time that the IDF sees that the Lebanese army is serious and can take the job, only then does Israel retreat and there are pilot projects and I think it's the best way to go about it," said Or Yissachar, executive director of Israeli think tank David Institute for Security Policy.
Israel-Lebanon agreement faces challenges in implementation: Israeli experts
