From December 24 to 26, 2025, the Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee under the National Information Technology Technical Committee (SAC/TC28/SC42 or SAC/SC42) convened its second Standards Week of the year. The event brought together over 400 representatives from government, industry, and academia to share the latest progress in AI technologies and participate in working group meetings for standards development. The three-day program included a General Assembly, a Plenary Meeting, and 12 working group’s standards discussions.
At the General Assembly, keynote remarks were provided by Mr. Du Guangda, Deputy Director-General of the Science and Technology Department of MIIT, and a comprehensive SC42 standardization report was presented by Mr. Fan Kefeng, Vice President of CESI.
During the Plenary Meeting, Mr. Yang Lei, Deputy Director of the Research Center of Information Technology at CESI, delivered an additional standardization report for SC42, and representatives from individual working groups presented their progress.
In his opening address, Mr. Du outlined MIIT’s focus on strengthening supply through “intelligent industrialization” and promoting empowerment via “industrial intelligence.” He also highlighted MIIT’s ongoing efforts to cultivate a supportive ecosystem and announced that the ministry will continue to prioritize problem-solving, innovation, and scenario-driven applications while advancing standards that are “rapid, superior, and robust” to underpin the AI+ initiative and industrial high-quality development.
Both Mr. Fan and Mr. Yang provided an in-depth analysis of China’s current AI development landscape and outlined SC42’s strategic priorities for 2026. The insights from their presentations have been consolidated by SESEC in the attached report below to avoid redundancy.
SESEC VI Report – SACSC42 2nd Standards Week [DEC 2025]
In addition to the plenary sessions, SESEC observed and documented the standards discussions held across several key SC42 working groups. A detailed account of these discussions is also included in the attached SESEC report.
The meeting served to comprehensively summarize the subcommittee’s recent achievements and systematically review the progress and next steps of each working group. Moving forward, SC42 will continue to serve as a collaborative platform, uniting stakeholders to systematically advance standards in areas such as AI chips, software-hardware adaptation, intelligent agents, and AI-enabled applications. SC42 will also launch a new round of standards project solicitations, conduct pre-research, and promote standards through training and pilot applications to ensure their effective implementation and support the high-quality growth of China’s AI industry.
