According to news from the State Intellectual Property Office on November 28, 2025, my country will strengthen the ethical review of artificial intelligence during the patent review process.

China will for (AI) in the , the China said on 28, 2025.

On November 12, 2025, in Lisbon, Portugal, the humanoid robot of the Chinese company Yushu Technology interacted with participants at the 2025 Web Summit. Image source: Xinhua News Agency

【Knowledge Points】

The science and technology ethics governance system is an important part of the science and technology governance system. It is also an important guarantee for ensuring the development of artificial intelligence for good and providing sustained, healthy and strong momentum for China-style modernization. In recent years, our country has attached great importance to and actively promoted the ethical governance of artificial intelligence and achieved remarkable results. A series of measures include establishing the National Science and Technology Ethics Committee and the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Subcommittee, releasing a new generation of artificial intelligence governance principles, promoting the construction of laws and regulations related to artificial intelligence ethical governance, innovating artificial intelligence ethical governance policy tools, and participating in global artificial intelligence ethical governance dialogue and cooperation.

In early November 2025, the State Intellectual Property Office released the latest revised patent examination guidelines, which will be effective from January 1, 2026. In terms of strengthening the ethics review of artificial intelligence, this revision clarifies that the implementation of technical solutions such as data collection and rule setting related to artificial intelligence should comply with the requirements of law, social ethics and public interests, establish a solid bottom line for safety, and guide the development of artificial intelligence to "intelligent good".

【Important speech】

Facing the new situation of rapid evolution of new generation artificial intelligence technology, we must give full play to the advantages of the new national system, adhere to self-reliance and self-reliance, highlight application orientation, and promote the healthy and orderly development of my country's artificial intelligence in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction.

In the face of the rapid of new-AI, China must fully the of the new for the, self- and in this, and so as to the and of AI in the in a, safe and fair.

——On April 25, 2025, Xi Jinping’s important speech at the 20th collective study session of the 20th Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee

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