Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Saturday that the Chinese government proposes establishing a global cooperation organization on artificial intelligence.

Premier Li made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the 2025 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai, which drew over 1,000 attendees, including representatives from the AI industry, academia and research sectors from China and abroad.

China attaches great importance to global AI governance and actively promotes bilateral and multilateral cooperation, noted the Chinese premier, and the country is ready to offer the international community more Chinese solutions and contribute more Chinese wisdom to AI governance, he said.

AI should become an international public good that benefits all humanity, Li stressed. To achieve that, he put forth three-point proposals: more efforts to promote universal and inclusive access to AI, collaborative innovation and common governance.

Li said that rapid progress is being made in fields such as large language models, multimodal large models and embodied AI, propelling AI development toward greater efficiency and higher intelligence.

Acknowledging that AI has begun to empower various industries and enter households, emerging as a new engine for economic growth, Li said the risks and challenges posed by AI have sparked widespread concern.

There is an urgent need to foster further consensus on how to strike a balance between development and security, he noted.

No matter how technology transforms, it must remain a tool to be harnessed and controlled by humans, Li said.

Li urged more efforts to ensure universal access to AI so that more countries and groups will benefit from it. "China is willing to share its AI development experience and technological products to help countries around the world – especially those in the Global South – to strengthen their capacity building."

He suggested greater cooperation on innovation to achieve more groundbreaking results. He said that China stands ready to undertake joint technical research with other countries and will be more open in sharing open-source technology and products.

An action plan for global AI governance was issued at the conference.

(With input from Xinhua)