🇨🇳China proposed export controls covering 40 technologies across AI, biomedicine, and photovoltaics, while introducing temporary pre-export registration requirements.

China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology opened a public consultation on revisions to the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export. The October 16 announcement also introduced temporary pre-export registration measures for the relevant technologies, distinct from final adoption of the proposed catalogue additions.

The proposal identifies 14 technologies for prohibited-export status. Examples include AI-driven malicious-code generation and mutation, proprietary cell- and gene-therapy technology platforms, and production technologies for perovskite and tandem solar-cell modules.

Another 26 technologies would face restricted-export status. Examples include AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, proprietary discovery and validation of novel targets for universal cell and gene therapies, and polysilicon engineering technology with single-line capacity of at least 30,000 metric tons per year.

The announcement also addresses circumstances eligible for facilitation measures, although the supplied summary does not describe those provisions. Its scope concerns specified technologies across three sectors, rather than an explicitly stated blanket prohibition on AI products or semiconductor exports.