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100			_aKHANAL Shaleen _eauthor
245			_aDevelopment of new generation of artificial intelligence in China: _bwhen Beijing’s global ambitions meet local realities / _cShaleen Khanal, Hongzhou Zhang and Araz Taeihagh
260			_c2025
520			_aHow did China become one of the leaders in AI development, and will China prevail in the ongoing AI race with the US? Existing studies have focused on the Chinese central government’s role in promoting AI. Notwithstanding the importance of the central government, a significant portion of the responsibility for AI development falls on local governments’ shoulders. Local governments have diverging interests, capacities and, therefore, approaches to promoting AI. This poses an important question: How do local governments respond to the central government’s policies on emerging technologies, such as AI? This article answers this question by examining the convergence or divergence of central and local priorities related to AI development by analysing the central and local AI policy documents and the provincial variations by focusing on the diffusion of the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan (NGAIDP) in China. Using a unique dataset of China’s provincial AI-related policies that cite the NGAIDP, the nature of diffusion of the NGAIDP is examined by conducting content analysis and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). This study highlights the important role of local governments in China’s AI development and emphasises examining policy diffusion as a political process.
650			_aARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE _zCHINA
700			_aZHANG Hongzhou _eauthor
700			_aTAEIHAGH Araz _eauthor
773			_gJournal of Contemporary China, Volume 34, Number 151, January 2025, pages: 19-42
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2024.2333492 _zClick here for full text
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