On September 24th, reports emerged that on the preceding day, September 23rd, Yu Xiaohui, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, emphasized at the inauguration of the 2026 China International Information and Communications Exhibition the imperative to vigorously foster integrated innovation between artificial intelligence (AI) and information and communications technologies. He underscored the need to proactively foresee and mitigate the transformative effects of AI on the information and communication network framework. The industry as a whole should embrace an application-centric mindset, coupled with strategic foresight, to systematically propel the development of next-generation communication networks. This encompasses upgrading broadband networks to dual-10-gigabit capabilities, expediting the establishment of low-orbit satellite internet infrastructures, refining the global maritime and terrestrial network configurations, expanding the scale and enhancing the quality of computing power resources, and fortifying the coordination between computing networks and computing power interconnections to more effectively bolster the construction of a unified computing power network.
