On Sept. 10 in Wuhan, Hubei provincial party secretary Guan Zhi'ou met Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li and urged the group to deepen its presence in Hubei and expand cooperation in artificial intelligence and spatiotemporal geoinformation. Hubei pledged to provide a first-class, responsive business environment—saying it will ‘respond when called, not interfere when unnecessary’—to facilitate Baidu’s development in the province.

On Sept 10, 2026 in Beijing, Politburo Standing Committee member and Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang attended the Global Services Trade Summit and met participating foreign dignitaries. He outlined three priorities to boost services trade: raise service-sector quality, efficiency and innovation to lift services trade value and better support economic activity; expand open market access by reducing barriers to cross-border factor flows and advancing services trade liberalization and facilitation; and deploy digital and intelligent technologies, including AI, and enhance interoperable digital infrastructure to drive services trade growth.

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