China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a five-year development plan for the information and communications sector that targets 9,800 eflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030, up from a 2025 baseline of 1,590 eflops, backed by 3.8 trillion yuan in cumulative information infrastructure investment over the period. The 15th Five-Year Plan for the information and communications industry was posted publicly on September 7, 2026, through the ministry’s…