China issues national policy direction for AI agents

The guidance combines development priorities with lifecycle safety, standards, monitoring and governance.

CAC, NDRC and MIIT jointly issued implementation opinions for AI agents.

Created a dedicated national policy record for autonomous AI-agent systems.

The consequence statement is limited to what the linked evidence and event record support.

Exact quotes below are taken from evidence rows attached to this update.

• China’s agent guidance links development to lifecycle governance. The guidance defines agents by autonomous capabilities and places safety requirements across research, deployment and promotion.
• China’s agent guidance defines AI agents by five capabilities. The opinions define an AI agent as an intelligent system with autonomous perception, memory, decision, interaction and execution capabilities.
• China’s agent guidance keeps final decision rights with users. Item 6 requires that users retain informed consent and final decision rights over agent autonomous decisions, and that agent actions stay inside user authorisation.
• China’s agent guidance sets classified and graded governance. Item 11 directs cyberspace and sector authorities to set open scenes in sensitive and key industries, with filing, testing and problem-product recall measures under applicable law and standards.

The document is policy guidance. Subsequent binding rules and technical standards determine concrete compliance duties.

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