--- date: 2026-08-26 subject: "MIIT's new industrialization push| Data centers free 100 MW in 10 minutes | Track 1.5 Dialogue" --- **MIIT laid out its five-year push** to accelerate new-type industrialization at a State Council Information Office briefing today, sorting the work into upgrading traditional industries, building six emerging pillar industries and turning future technologies from quantum to 6G into new growth points. **Data centers cut power draw** on northern China's Jibei grid during an evening peak, freeing 100.64 megawatts of supply capacity in under 10 minutes. **China and the U.S. discussed AI risk** at a third Track 1.5 dialogue in Beijing yesterday, with the sides agreeing the two countries should guard against risks such as those posed by AI. # Top Stories - **MIIT lays out its five-year push to accelerate new-type industrialization** — China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology delivered a briefing on how China was implementing the 15th Five-Year Plan to accelerate the advancement of new-type industrialization. Vice Minister Xin Guobin framed the work as upgrading traditional industries, growing emerging ones and positioning future ones in advance. The emerging pillar industries the ministry will build up are integrated circuits, aerospace, biomedicine, the low-altitude economy, new-type energy storage and intelligent robots. The future technologies it wants to turn into new growth points are quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen and fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied AI and sixth-generation mobile networks, or 6G. The ministry put intelligent computing capacity at 2,185 EFLOPS as of the end of June. On the supply side, the ministry will back research into high-end training chips and multimodal algorithms, and push into brain-inspired computing and models that predict how a physical scene will change. [MIIT](https://wap.miit.gov.cn/xwfb/bldhd/art/2026/art_934ddb14d33e4cd5b787d88a15c5c0eb.html) [govt] [Science and Technology Daily](https://www.stdaily.com/web/gdxw/2026-08/26/content_570052.html) [state media] [China News Service](https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2026/07-20/10662812.shtml) [state media] - **Eleven Chinese data centers free 100 megawatts of grid capacity in under 10 minutes** — Eleven compute centers on the Jibei grid in northern China cut their power draw at an evening peak, freeing 100.64 megawatts of supply capacity in under 10 minutes. The freed wattage allows the data center to act like a grid operator that can add supply based on reduced consumption, an arrangement called a virtual power plant. Wang Xuanyuan, who directs the dispatch center at State Grid Jibei Electric Power, said the mechanism amounts to "negative load equals positive generation." ITHome reports it as the country's first coordinated compute-and-power adjustment at the 100-megawatt scale, about the same consumption of tens of thousands of households drawing at the same time. In Changshu, a city in Jiangsu province, the grid company says computing centers built for AI training now add more load than seasonal air conditioning. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/994/564.htm) - **China and the U.S. discuss AI risk at a semi-official dialogue in Beijing** — China and the United States held a third Track 1.5 dialogue in Beijing yesterday, with artificial intelligence among the channels both governments are keeping open. Track 1.5 mixes serving officials with private participants, so the AI discussion runs below the level of a formal state-to-state channel. Liu Haixing, who heads the Chinese Communist Party's International Department, told about 40 delegates that departments on both sides are maintaining communication on economy and trade, military affairs and AI. Craig Mundie, the U.S. co-chair of the China-U.S. AI Track Two Dialogue, said participants are "hunting for activities that we can do that align with this slogan." Wang Huning, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, met the U.S. delegates on Monday. [China Military Online](http://www.81.cn/ss_208539/16481249.html) [govt] [CCTV Plus](https://www.cctvplus.com/news/20260826/8496040.shtml) [state media] [People's Daily Online](https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0825/c90000-20492021.html) [state media] - **Honor's humanoid robot breaks human records in five track events** — Smartphone maker Honor said its humanoid robot Lightning broke five human world track records in five athletics events at the second World Humanoid Robot Games. Including a 100-meter dash in 8.94 seconds, significantly faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58-second human record. The robot also ran the 1,500-meter final in 2 minutes 30 seconds, took the 400-meter final in 39.45 seconds against Wayde van Niekerk's 43.03-second Olympic record, and a half marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds. The time improvement came from rebuilding the machine for sprinting rather than from a new control model: engineers lengthened its legs by 10 centimeters to widen the stride, cut mass by removing material where structural loads are low, and raised joint torque and response speed together. Both of the company's entries ran fully autonomously. [Sina Tech](https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2026-08-26/doc-iniprcpz6237360.shtml) [state-affiliated] - **XPeng gives its driving software a 30-second memory** — XPeng's new driving model carries a 30-second memory window, which the Chinese electric vehicle maker says lets it read road changes from continuous information rather than isolated frames. Paired with it is X-Foresight, a prediction model that projects how objects around the car will move up to 6 seconds ahead,the software plans against a forecast. Using vision-language-action tool the system maps camera input and spoken instructions straight to driving actions. A XPeng vice president said the G9L sport utility vehicle will ship it first, and that the new version raises the parameter count of the model running on the car's own computer 3.5-fold. The company aims to win regulatory approval in Europe before other markets, in the first half of 2027, and to begin deliveries to overseas users. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/994/610.htm) [Yahoo Finance](https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/xpeng-reports-q2-2026-results-151700952.html) # Policy & Regulation - **China's data agency picks 50 more uses for government-held data** — The National Data Administration, which runs China's data policy, selected a fifth batch of 50 demonstration uses for government-held data, announced in Beijing. This round pushes the program past opening single agencies' holdings toward merging public data with company and social data. Demand for that fusion runs strongest in agriculture, meteorology and economics, deputy director Chen Ronghui said, and 25 provinces, regions and municipalities now run authorized operation. That is the arrangement under which a government body licenses an operator to process and supply the data it holds. The 50 were chosen from 731 applications submitted since the call opened in February, and include opening multi-source seismic data to upgrade regional earthquake preparedness. [China Military Online](http://www.81.cn/ss_208539/16481233.html) [govt] # AI & Foundation Models - **Tencent's cloud chief says a compute shortage slowed its main AI model** — Tencent's cloud chief said insufficient compute supply has held back iteration of the company's Hunyuan large model. Tencent's spending has moved accordingly with second-quarter capital expenditure reached 52.8 billion yuan (about $7.4 billion), up 176% from a year earlier and directed mainly at AI compute and infrastructure. Dowson Tong, who runs Tencent's Cloud and Smart Industries Group, made the acknowledgment in a signed essay in the company's internal publication answering claims that its AI has fallen behind. Tencent says its Hy3 production model ranked among the top three globally by token consumption on OpenRouter, a service that routes developer traffic across many models, after launching in July. [PingWest](https://www.pingwest.com/w/316797) [Investing.com](https://www.investing.com/news/earnings/tencent-profit-misses-estimates-as-ai-spending-weighs-on-earnings-revenue-up-11-4854016) - **Ant cash-flow forecasting model used by four global banks** — Ant International released Falcon TST 2.0, a model that forecasts time series, the moving numbers a business tracks such as a currency rate or a cash balance. Barclays, Citibank, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered are the banks Ant names as running it on cash-flow forecasting and currency management. Ant reports a mean absolute scaled error of 0.666 on global benchmarks, a measure of a model's misses against a naive baseline, where lower is better. Standard Chartered said in August 2025 that it would fold the model into its liquidity engine, putting foreign-exchange forecasting accuracy for Ant International above 90% and cutting related currency costs by up to 60%. Ant opened a public programming interface to the model in July 2026, returning a spread of possible outcomes with probabilities rather than a single number. [QbitAI](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/08/479631.html) - **Alibaba opens an international beta of its AI office assistant** — Alibaba opened the international public beta of QwenWork, its AI office assistant, three weeks after the Chinese launch on Aug. 3. The beta aims the product at Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, and it plugs into the Western workplace tools Slack and Notion rather than only Alibaba's own. Sign-up runs through a Google account or an email address tied to the Alibaba Cloud International account system. QwenWork bundles three systems. QoderWork for software and web applications, MuleRun for stringing together workflows, and Wukong for operating websites and functions on a user's own computer once granted permission. It handles Chinese and English now, with Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean planned. [PingWest](https://www.pingwest.com/w/316795) [TNGlobal](https://technode.global/2026/08/26/alibaba-qwenwork-international-public-beta/) # Robotics & Autonomous Systems - **Shenzhen startup Kinetix AI sells its humanoid stack piece by piece** — Kinetix AI, a Shenzhen startup founded in July 2025, had a full-size humanoid robot play table tennis at its World Robot Conference booth, tracking the ball and turning its waist to reach the landing point. The company sells the layers of the stack separately, and says its algorithms already run on two rivals' machines, Unitree's G1 and AgiBot's Yuanzheng A3. Its own KAI Bot stands 173 centimeters, about 5 feet 8 inches, and carries tactile skin over nearly 80% of its body. Kinetix AI says that skin can register touches as light as 0.1 newton, roughly the weight of two nickels. The dexterous KAI Hand and a data collection headset, KAI Halo Lite, went on public sale at this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. [QbitAI](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/08/478860.html) - **AI company 4Paradigm and a dozen robot makers agree to co-build shared robot software** — 4Paradigm moved its PhanthyMotus robot software project from open source to joint development with more than 10 robot makers at a Beijing launch event. The project is a middle layer between a robot's body and the AI deciding what it should do, so one piece of algorithm work can run on many machines. UBTECH, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center and Robot Era attended. 4Paradigm says developers from Unitree, AgiBot and DJI have joined the community since it formed. The company puts contributions at more than 600,000 lines of code, alongside standardized driver modules for humanoid, quadruped and wheeled machines. Its target for the end of 2026 is support for more than 50 robot bodies, and the community site is open to developers worldwide. [QbitAI](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/08/479314.html) - **Researchers run robot control models 1.79 times faster without losing accuracy** — A paper accepted at IJCAI 2026, a major AI conference, reports running robot control models 1.79 times faster with no loss of accuracy. The gain comes from moving the decision of how much to compute out of the vision pipeline and into a scheduler driven by what the robot is doing. Those models turn camera images and a written instruction into motor commands, and speed is the bottleneck for real-time control. Yu Wenda, the paper's first author, told Leiphone that visual complexity and the precision a task needs are not always in sync. Average success across the benchmark tasks reached 76.8%, slightly above the unmodified model, while computed operations fell to 29.4% of the original. The authors attribute the gap between that cut and the measured speedup to the scheduler's own computation and the memory movement its pruning creates. [Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/hJ6IDm4NImDU3590.html) # Digital Infrastructure - **MIIT says HarmonyOS is now the world's third-largest mobile operating system** — Huawei's HarmonyOS is now the world's third-largest mobile phone operating system, China's industry ministry said at a briefing on the 15th Five-Year Plan. Liu Yulin, the ministry's information and communications development director, said cumulative devices on the OpenHarmony open source base number more than 1.35 billion, including cars and appliances rather than phones alone. OpenHarmony is the code base Huawei and other vendors build on, and Liu said derivatives including Gonghong and Yihong are in use at scale in metallurgy and petrochemicals. He also said China has the world's largest number of database products, and that its 3D computer-aided design and simulation software competes in the market. Huawei gives a narrower figure for its newest release: Richard Yu, who chairs its terminal business group, said on Aug. 20 that HarmonyOS 6 had passed 80 million devices. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/994/630.htm) - **CAS Space clears its next rocket for an 18-satellite launch in October** — CAS Space said its second Kinetica-2 rocket passed factory review, with launch planned for October. The company puts per-launch cost without recovery at about 30,000 yuan (roughly $4,200) a kilogram, which it says is close to SpaceX's Falcon 9. Kinetica-2 uses a universal booster-core design, so adding or removing boosters covers payloads from 2 to 20 metric tons. The mission is to deliver 18 satellites at once for Spacesail's Qianfan low-orbit internet constellation, which CAS Space calls the rocket's first large-scale constellation networking launch. A first flight on March 30 carried a cargo-craft prototype. The company says the second vehicle's assembly-and-test cycle came in shorter than the first flight's, as it reworked production toward standardized batch building. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/994/548.htm) [Sina Tech](https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/roll/2026-08-26/doc-iniprivs1069309.shtml) [state-affiliated] # Strategic Context - **China's foreign ministry offers joint robot standards and shared markets** — Foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said China will keep up dialogue and cooperation with all countries on artificial intelligence and robots that act through a physical body. The question put to him cited other countries' precautionary measures against Chinese high-tech industries and commentary that humanoid robots' commercial prospects remain unclear. Lin's answer moved to deployments already running: humanoid robots sorting parcels and assembling parts on factory floors, elder care and folding clothes. He credited coordinated work by whole-machine makers, component firms and algorithm teams, plus long-term stable policy support, and said the logic of China's innovation is open cooperation, "not artificial limits or closed monopoly." The cooperation he offered has three named forms: technology interconnection, joint standard-building and shared markets. [China Military Online](http://www.81.cn/fyr/16481245.html) [govt]