Knowledge graph and semantic computing : knowledge graph empowers artificial general intelligence$d8th China Conference CCKS 2023 Shenyang China August 24 27 2023 ; revised selected papers This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers Artificial General Intelligence CCKS 2023 held in Shenyang China during August 24 27 2023. The 28 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: knowledge representation and knowledge graph reasoning; knowledge acquisition and knowledge base construction; knowledge integration and knowledge graph management; natural language understanding and semantic computing; knowledge graph applications; knowledge graph open resources; and evaluations