China’s above-scale industrial firms have an AI application penetration rate
above 30%, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said ahead of the
2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. MIIT said full-year
humanoid robot production is expected to exceed 100,000 units in 2026 and that
humanoid robots are starting to enter factories and workshops. MIIT is
coordinating targeted initiatives — modular resonance and humanoid-robot and
embodied-intelligence real-scene training — to accelerate high-value industrial
use cases. The China–BRICS AI Development and Cooperation Center will publish an
International AI Ethics Governance Action Plan during the conference.