China’s Cyberspace Administration, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued guidelines to regulate AI agents and support their development, as Beijing pushes its “AI Plus” plan.
The document describes AI agents as systems that can perceive, remember, decide, interact, and act autonomously.
It says development should be safe, controllable, orderly, standardized, and guided by innovation and real-world applications.
It sets measures in four areas: improving infrastructure and standards, strengthening security, promoting adoption in 19 use cases across research, industry, consumption, public services, and social governance, and building industry cooperation and a broader innovation ecosystem.