2026 AI Industry Conference Unveils Five Landmark Results: Security Framework, Compute Valley, AI Index

The 2026 Artificial Intelligence Industry Conference opened in Jinan on October 15 under the theme "Accelerating AI Empowerment of New Industrialization," Xinhua's Shandong channel reported, releasing five landmark results. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's science and technology department, with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, released an "AI Empowering New Industrialization High-Value Scenarios" map covering 20 sub-sectors and more than 1,000 scenarios in a reusable "living map" of industrial AI practice. Under the MIIT cybersecurity administration, the Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance released the "Industrial and Information Technology Field AI Security Evaluation Framework (2026 Edition)" covering general, application and business security. Five entities including Inspur Cloud launched a national AI application pilot-base co-build; Shandong and partners released the China Compute Valley AI public-service platform as an eastern hub of the national integrated compute network; and a CSI-BOC Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong AI industry index, vetted by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, was issued to turn industry standards into an investable benchmark. More than 800 guests attended, with nearly a million viewers online.

Source: Xinhua (Shandong) / People's Daily (Shandong), Oct 16, 2026 | 2026-10-16