{"id":317841,"date":"2026-03-02T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:22:08","slug":"chinas-ai-power-play-beijing-banks-on-clean-energy-boom-to-triumph-over-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317841\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI power play: Beijing banks on clean-energy boom to triumph over US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s rapid push into artificial intelligence and its simultaneous energy transition are central to overtaking the United States in technological supremacy, according to a former finance vice-minister.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Competition in the field of AI has shifted from purely a technological sprint to a broader contest over application scenarios and regulatory frameworks, led by the world\u2019s two largest economies, Zhu Guangyao explained.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cChina\u2019s leading position in energy transition has laid a solid foundation for AI development, thereby creating vast application scenarios,\u201d Zhu told the National Business Daily in a report published on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFor the US, the challenge posed by new circumstances lies in [the principle] that \u2018electricity is computing power\u2019,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhu also noted that, while the US currently leads in computing power, American industry leaders have publicly admitted that the gap with China was closing.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came ahead of China\u2019s <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3344917\/chinas-politburo-signals-decisive-macroeconomic-direction-ahead-two-sessions?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201ctwo sessions\u201d<\/a> meetings, which are due to take place in Beijing this week. The annual meetings of the top legislature, the National People\u2019s Congress, and the top political advisory body, the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference, will set the country\u2019s economic agenda. Technological innovation and energy security are expected to be among Beijing\u2019s top priorities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As AI development triggers an explosion in global electricity demand, China\u2019s abundant energy supply is increasingly viewed as a strategic advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s rapid push into artificial intelligence and its simultaneous energy transition are central to overtaking the United States&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,5560,15616,1657,158474,9694,85,46,158473,158472,158471,77334,100805,5959,125,1032,81567,58722],"class_list":{"0":"post-317841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-beijing","12":"tag-brookings-institution","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-peoples-political-consultative-conference","15":"tag-energy-transition","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-john-l-thornton-china-centre","19":"tag-kyle-chan","20":"tag-national-business-daily","21":"tag-national-energy-administration","22":"tag-national-peoples-congress","23":"tag-south-china-morning-post","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-us-energy-information-administration","27":"tag-zhu-guangyao"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}