Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 115

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 115
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 of Artificial Intelligence. The plan outlines three strategic steps in developing a new generation of artificial intelligence technology, and set goals to have China’s artificial intelligence technology reach a leading level in the world and become one of the major artificial intelligence innovation centers globally.

On August 1, 2019, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Guidelines for the Construction of the National New Generation of AI Open Innovation Platform, emphasizing that “open and sharing” should be the important philosophy in promoting artificial intelligence innovation and industry development in China, and encouraged to open innovation platforms for companies to conduct testing, thereby forming standard and modularized models, middleware and applications to provide services to the public in the form of open interfaces, model libraries, algorithm packages, etc.

The Guidelines for the Construction of the New Generation of National Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development Pilot Zone, which were promulgated by the Ministry of Science and Technology on August 29, 2019 and last amended on September 29, 2020 and came into effect on the same day, underlines the need to create an environment conducive to the innovation and development of artificial intelligence, to promote the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure and strengthen the conditional support for the innovation and development of artificial intelligence.

On December 31, 2021, the CAC, the MIIT, the Ministry of Public Security and the SAMR jointly issued the Administrative Provisions on Internet Information Service Algorithm-Based Recommendation, which became effective on March 1, 2022. According to these provisions, algorithmic recommendation service providers must (i) fulfill the responsibilities for algorithm security, (ii) establish and strengthen management systems for algorithm mechanism examination, ethical review in technology, user registration, information release examination, protection of data security and personal information, anti-telecom and network fraud, security assessment and monitoring, and emergency response to security incidents, and (iii) formulate and publish rules governing algorithmic recommendation related service. In addition, algorithmic recommendation services provider should not use the services to (i) carry out any illegal activity which may endanger national security and social public interest, disturb economic order and social order, or infringe third parties’ legal interest, (ii) spread any information prohibited by laws or regulations, or (iii) take advantage of algorithms to impose unreasonable restrictions on other information service providers, or hinder or obstruct the normal operation of their legal services. Providers of algorithmic recommendation services that possess public opinion attributes or social mobilization capabilities must complete the filing with the CAC’s filing system within ten business days after launching their services