MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND COMMUNICATIONS: ACCESS TO AI TECHNOLOGY FOR MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES ABOVE 30 PER CENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR

On 20 July, the Press Office of the State Council held a press conference on developments in industry and information in the first half of 2026. Wang Wei Ming, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Industry and Informatics, stated that in the first half of the year, the innovation capacity in industry and informatization was growing, and the expansion of artificial intelligence + was deepening, that the use of artificial intelligence technology in manufacturing enterprises of more than 30 per cent had been extended, and that the cumulative global downloads of large artificial intelligence open-source models had exceeded 10 billion times. (Security Times)