China's Commerce and Science Ministries Propose Adding 23 AI Technologies to Export Control List
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On October 16, the Commerce Ministry and Science and Technology Ministry issued Announcement No. 48 of 2026, proposing to add 23 key AI technologies to China's catalog of technologies banned or restricted from export, and opened the list to public comment. Interim measures requiring pre-export registration took effect at the same time. The proposed scope covers large models, agents, computing clusters and information processing. Technologies already in the public domain through open source or academic papers would not be subject to export management. The additions are still at the public comment stage.
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The Commerce Ministry and Science and Technology Ministry issued Announcement No. 48 of 2026, proposing to add 23 key AI technologies to China's catalog of technologies banned or restricted from export, and opened the draft to public comment. Interim measures require registration before export. The proposed scope covers large models, agents, compute clusters and information processing. Technologies already in the public domain through open source or academic papers would not be included.
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