The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), themed "Global Solidarity in the AI Era," was held in Shanghai from July 26 to 28. The Chinese technologies and AI solutions displayed at the conference demonstrated the country's innovative efforts and initiative to make the world a better place with AI.

The WAIC brought together more than 1,500 participants from over 30 countries and regions. The accompanying exhibition, with an area exceeding 70,000 square meters for the first time, attracted some 800 enterprises. It displayed more than 3,000 frontier technologies, including over 100 global and Chinese debuts.

The exhibition also showcased many industrialized innovative achievements. Shanghai Zhiyuan Innovation Technology Co. has manufactured more than 1,000 embodied robots, facilitating scenarios like logistics. The "Tianqing" robot developed by the State Grid can autonomously replace circuit parts on high-voltage power lines. The steel large model developed by China Baowu Steel Group Co. and Shanghai Baosight Software Co. has been deeply integrated into 105 classical scenarios in the steel industry, covering over 85 percent of key processes.

The Global AI Governance Action Plan was released during the conference, calling for concrete and effective actions to advance global AI development and governance.

It proposes 13 feasible actions including advancing AI empowerment across industries, accelerating digital infrastructure construction and creating a diverse, open, and innovative ecosystem. It seeks to address energy and environmental issues and promote the supply of high-quality data as well as common understanding on standards and norms.

Strengthening international cooperation on AI capacity building and building an inclusive multi-stakeholder governance model are also on the agenda.

China has proposed the creation of a global AI cooperation organization, and is tentatively considering establishing its headquarters in Shanghai.

Guo Jiakun, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, said this is a practical move taken by China to practice multilateralism and echo the aspiration of the Global South, as well as another international public good contributed by China. The aim is to unleash the dividends of AI, bridge the AI divide, and make sure that AI is for good.

Chinese AI solutions have crossed borders. The China Meteorological Administration launched MAZU, an AI-powered early warning meteorological system, and donated MAZU-Urban, the AI agent for multi-hazard early warning, to representatives from Djibouti and Mongolia. This marked the start of this set of AI meteorological system's mission of cross-border disaster prevention and mitigation.

Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, said this technology not only benefits China, but is also open source. She called it a good example to bridge the technology gap among different countries through AI.

Apart from contributing practical AI solutions, China has also showed its commitment to global AI cooperation and governance.