China's first Cyber Security Summit (Tianjin) on Tuesday announced plans to create a national computer virus database.

The announcement came at the conclusion of the two-day summit, which was themed "Jointly Building Cyber Security and Governing Cyberspace."

Held in north China's Tianjin municipality, the summit drew more than 500 participants, including academics, scholars, entrepreneurs, and government officials.

The fourth International Anti-Virus Conference also coincided with the summit.

According to a report from China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) released at the summit, the number of computer virus attacks targeting individual users in China has decreased in 2023, while attacks against organizations have risen compared to the same period last year.

The report highlights that the critical information infrastructure sector, encompassing education, finance and health, which contains substantial sensitive personal data, has become a prime target for data breaches in 2023.

To build a coordination mechanism to cope with cybersecurity challenges, CVERC and over 30 network security companies established eight related mechanisms during the summit.

The mechanisms, which include joint research on standards and specifications, key core technology innovation and ecological research of network crime, aim to further integrate resources such as data, technology and talents, promoting the construction of a national computer virus database to effectively enhance independent research and development capabilities of China's internet technology.

China's interim regulation on the management of generative AI services went into effect on August 15, which puts forward a slew of measures to boost this AI technology and simultaneously stipulates basic norms for generative AI service providers. 

(With input from Xinhua)