China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will issue the Guidelines for the Construction of Computing Power Standard System, and promote the establishment of standards including market-based pricing for computing power.

The State Council Information Office held a press conference to brief on the development of industry and information technology in the first half of 2026. Xie Cun, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Director-General of the Department of Information and Communication Development, stated that over the past two years, more than 70 major computing power corridors have been built around national computing power hub nodes, with network performance between these hub nodes improved by 10%. The current explosive growth of large AI models and agent applications has driven a continuous rise in demand for intelligent computing power. Going forward, the MIIT will continue to follow the systematic work approach of "point, chain, network, dimension, and system" to optimize the deployment of computing infrastructure resources, build interconnected computing power nodes, and enhance the utilization efficiency of computing power resources. In terms of focusing on key points, the MIIT will optimize the deployment of computing power resource supply, coordinate factors such as industrial development and energy supply, promote the construction of intelligent computing clusters and the coordinated development of computing power and electricity, build a tiered computing power layout, and strengthen overall monitoring of computing power. Additionally, it will issue guidelines for the construction of a computing power standard system, and promote the establishment of standards including computing power service capability evaluation and market-based pricing for computing power.