Today (July 7), the Press Office of the Municipal Government held a press convention. Chen Jie, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor, launched the preparation progress of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, in addition to the growth of the synthetic intelligence business. Sun Xiaobo, AI Affairs Coordinator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Ruomeng, Deputy Director of the Department of Innovation and High-Tech Industry Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, Gan Xiaobin, Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Tang Wenkan, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, and Zhou Jin, Vice President of the Easthao Lansheng Group, collectively attended the press convention and answered questions from reporters.
The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance is co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Association for Science and Technology, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government. It will kick off at the “Three Venues and Four Pavilions” (Expo, Zhangjiang, West Bund) from July 17 to twenty. Centering on the theme of “Intelligent Partners, Co-Creating the Future”, the convention units up six main sectors: Forum Sessions, Exhibition Display, Awards & Competitions, Application Experience, Innovation Incubation, and Talent Recruitment. At current, all preparation work has entered the closing dash stage.
I. Focus on Global Wisdom, Elevate the Level of the Forum Framework
The convention plans greater than 140 boards, collaborating with 12 nationwide ministries and commissions, 8 nationwide key laboratories, and over 10 worldwide organizations, gathering greater than 1,400 Chinese and overseas visitors. The high-level worldwide educational convention “WAIC Academic” is launched for the first time, led by Turing Award winners and Chinese and overseas academicians. So far, 284 submissions have been acquired, masking many international locations and areas round the world, dedicated to constructing a prime educational alternate platform in the area of synthetic intelligence.
II. Nurture Youth Strength, Continuously Improve the Competition Matrix
Adhering to the precept of “gathering talents through competitions and promoting innovation through competitions”, the convention absolutely upgrades the awards and competitors system. Traditional model competitions resembling the SAIL Award, the Excellent Youth Paper Award, and the Cloud Sail Award are repeatedly optimized, and new AI occasions together with the OPC Independent Pioneer Challenge and the Youth Investment Leader List are added, developing a multi-level competitors matrix masking prime achievements, younger skills, and youth fashionable science. A devoted OPC exhibition space is ready up for the first time, with 180 enterprises settled in, exploring skills by way of competitions and gathering younger folks by way of the platform.
III. Present Cutting-Edge Achievements, Set a New Record for Exhibition Scale
The complete exhibition space exceeds 100,000 sq. meters for the first time, with greater than 1,100 enterprises taking part, over 3,000 reveals on show, and greater than 300 merchandise making their world debut. The Intelligent Computing and Embodied Intelligence tracks every collect greater than 200 enterprises. Dozens of main chain house owners, central state-owned enterprises, and prime overseas enterprises take part in the exhibition collectively with their ecological companions, specializing in demonstrating the cutting-edge practices of synthetic intelligence empowering hundreds of industries.
IV. Deepen Ecological Services, Build a Full-Cycle Empowerment Platform
The convention launches 5 main ecological matrices: “Venture Capital, Connection, Intelligence, Youth Innovation, and Global Expansion”, and concurrently launches the AI-native platform “Hi WAIC”, forming a closed-loop service masking “pre-conference, during-conference, and post-conference”. In phrases of commercial empowerment, 57 core eventualities have been promoted for implementation, with a complete of 16.2 billion yuan in meant cooperation reached. In phrases of capital docking, a devoted capital docking zone has been arrange, connecting greater than 10 funding establishments and 200 skilled buyers. In phrases of situation expertise, with the theme of “Companion Tour · My Modern Partner”, a three-level immersive expertise system masking pavilions, blocks, and the total metropolis is constructed, creating a novel metropolis card of “AI Shanghai Tour”.
Shanghai absolutely implements the spirit of Xi Jinping’s necessary speeches, carefully implements the choices and preparations of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and promotes a scientific enchancment in the complete power of synthetic intelligence. In 2025, the metropolis’s 394 AI enterprises above designated measurement achieved an industrial scale of over 637 billion yuan, a year-on-year improve of 39.5%, which has turn out to be a brand new driving pressure for the metropolis’s financial progress. At current, Shanghai has constructed an entire growth ecosystem that integrates unbiased innovation, utility traction, open cooperation, ecological collaboration, and safety governance.
I. Adhere to Self-Reliance and Self-Improvement, Continuously Enhance the Level of Technology Supply
Advancing alongside each the “open source + commercial” paths, a number of primary massive fashions have reached the world’s prime degree, and 169 massive fashions have handed the submitting, offering underlying innovation help for brand new enterprise varieties resembling OPC. The metropolis’s clever computing scale exceeds 160,000 P, strongly supporting the implementation of “AI+” purposes in numerous industries.
II. Adhere to Market Orientation, Promote the Renewed Development of Advantageous Industrial Clusters
High-level building of a national-level synthetic intelligence utility pilot base accelerates the in-depth integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. The “100 Teams, 100 Projects” initiative for scientific intelligence accelerates interdisciplinary collaborative analysis, with steady emergence of commercial achievements. The total embodied intelligence business chain has been principally accomplished, and a number of embodied intelligence merchandise have achieved mass manufacturing.
III. Adhere to Open Collaboration, Gather Momentum for the Industrial Innovation Ecosystem
The metropolis has constructed massive mannequin industrial clusters in the “East and West”, forming an industrial spatial structure of “two cores leading, multi-point linkage”. Two synthetic intelligence innovation cities in Zhangjiang and Beiyang have been accomplished, gathering a variety of new R&D establishments, funding funds, and public service platforms, striving to construct a growth surroundings of “low innovation cost and high intelligence density”.
IV. Adhere to Nurturing Talents, Initially Form a High Ground for Innovative Talents
Artificial intelligence is a younger trigger, and likewise a trigger for younger folks. Shanghai has established the Zhichuang Academy, 14 universities have arrange synthetic intelligence analysis institutes, and 19 universities have supplied AI-related majors. The metropolis’s complete variety of AI skills is sort of 300,000, accounting for about one-third of the nationwide complete. The metropolis’s open supply communities collect greater than 150,000 fashions, attracting over 10 million world builders.
V. Adhere to the Principle of AI for Good, Accelerate the Improvement of the Collaborative Governance System
The “Shanghai Declaration on Global AI Governance” and the “Global AI Governance Action Plan” are repeatedly applied. International platforms resembling the Global Industrial Artificial Intelligence Alliance Excellence Center and the China-BRICS AI Development and Cooperation Center have settled in Shanghai, and the Global AI Innovation Governance Center continues to advertise worldwide exchanges and dialogues.
