Envoy calls for deepening Sino-UK sci-tech exchanges

China and the United Kingdom should continue science and technology exchanges, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, without overstretching the concept of national security, China's Ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang said at a forum in London on Wednesday.

Addressing the 2025 Sino-UK Entrepreneur Forum, which was themed "Smart Decisions for Smart Technologies", Zheng said China's AI development has been expanding in scale and flourishing in innovation, with ever-increasing real-life applications, and that China welcomes international collaboration on this emerging technology.

Noting that China sent a delegation to the UK's AI Safety Summit in 2023, and the UK participated in a meeting on international cooperation on AI capacity-building hosted by China early in May, Zheng said, "We would welcome the UK sending a senior delegation to the upcoming AI conference in Shanghai."