The CCP writes in its 15th 5-year plan that it will.

Encourage innovation in multimodal, agentic, embodied, and swarm intelligence technologies, and explore development paths for general artificial intelligence.

This is translated from the original:

鼓励多模态、智能体、具身智能、群体智能等技术创新，探索通用人工智能发展路径。

Source: https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/tt/202603/t20260313_723954.shtml

The English-language commentary I found does not have much more to say about this, e.g.: https://triviumchina.com/2026/03/06/15th-five-year-plan-puts-ai-at-center-of-digital-economy-agenda/

Given that they gave less than half a sentence in a 140-page document to the most important invention in the history of mankind, it seems likely the authors don't really understand what this means. Concerning nonetheless

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First published:
March 21st, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JKhoyebpedLQLb5JN/china-declares-agi-development-to-be-a-part-of-5-year-plan

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