​As part of the 2026 Global South Modernization Forum, the Center for Global AI Innovative Governance (CGAIG), together with the School of Journalism at Fudan University, is launching a youth case study and presentation event titled “The Global South in the Age of AI: Youth Perspectives on Development and the Future.” Form a team, share your perspective, and help bring young voices from the Global South to a wider audience!

The 2026 Global South Modernization Forum was held in Cairo on September 30 under the theme “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges for Modernization in the Global South”.

On September 11, Professor CHEN Zhimin, Executive Director of the Center for Global AI Innovative Governance (CGAIG) and Vice President of Fudan University, and YAO Xu, Secretary-General of CGAIG and Associate Professor at Fudan Development Institute, attended the Ninth China Think Tank Construction and Evaluation Summit Forum by invitation. Together with representatives of think tanks from research institutes, universities, macroeconomic policy research departments and centrally administered st

On 28 August, Yao Xu, Secretary-General of the Center for Global AI Innovative Governance (CGAIG) and Associate Research Fellow at the Fudan Development Institute, was invited to meet with Vladimir Imamovich Norov, Chairman of the Central Asian AI Association and former Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), at Beijing Club for International Dialogue.

Professor Chen Zhimin, Executive Director of CGAIG and Vice President of Fudan University, was invited to attend the third convening in the United Nations Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence and Human Developmentwas held in Xi’an.

In this episode of SinoAI Insights, we take the outcomes unveiled at the Shanghai summit as our point of departure to examine China’s approach to global AI governance, assess WAICO’s institutional positioning and global role, and explore pathways for global AI safety governance and workable options for multilateral cooperation amid intensifying strategic competition among major powers.

On July 17, the forum “Global AI Governance and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Responses” of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) was held at the Shanghai Expo Centre.

The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. /VCGEditors note: Professor Chen Zhimin is vice president of Fudan University, Shanghai, and executive director of the Center for Global AI Innovative Governance (CGAIG). Officially launched at the opening ceremony of the 2025 World AI Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, the CGAIG serves as an international platform dedicated to research, dialogue