China has drafted a proposal to restrict exports across roughly 40 technologies spanning artificial intelligence, semiconductors and solar power manufacturing, a move that would extend Beijing's own export-control regime well beyond the handful of sectors it has targeted so far.
The draft covers 23 AI-related technologies, including advanced large language models and AI agents, alongside multiple chip-design technologies used in AI processors and memory, 12 technologies tied to polysilicon production for solar panels, and five biomedicine technologies covering cell and gene therapy. On the AI side, the proposal would bar exporting models trained on sensitive national data and prohibit AI agents built for defense or critical infrastructure applications, with potential restrictions also floated for general-purpose models above roughly two trillion parameters, a threshold that would reportedly bring Chinese systems such as Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max into scope.
Officials have framed the restrictions around national security, specifically the goal of preventing misuse of advanced AI systems and preserving human control over them, language that echoes the kind of safety rationale Western governments have used to justify their own export limits on sensitive technology.