On September 4, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China and six co-issuing authorities published the Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Digital and Green Transformation Development (2026-2030). The plan sets national objectives to improve the energy efficiency of artificial-intelligence computing, computing infrastructure and 5G base stations.

It promotes low-power chips, liquid cooling, waste-heat recovery, energy storage, more efficient radio-access-network architectures and dynamic energy management. It also calls for lifecycle resource-consumption evaluation for generative AI and encourages large-model providers to disclose resource-use information.

Environmental measures include developing digital-green standards and strengthening product carbon-footprint, labeling, certification, grading and information-disclosure systems.

The plan is strategic and programmatic: it does not by itself establish a new product homologation, spectrum band, technical test or mandatory label format, but it signals future standards and implementation measures relevant to manufacturers, operators and digital-service providers.

Impact

Impact assessment: Medium.

Key reasons: the plan sets a multi-year policy direction for energy-efficient AI, computing and 5G infrastructure and explicitly anticipates standards, carbon-footprint, labeling and certification mechanisms.

Who is affected?

AI and cloud providers, data-center operators, network operators, base-station and chip manufacturers, cooling and energy-system suppliers, and product sustainability teams.

Conclusion:

there is no immediate product redesign or mandatory label, but organizations should map energy and resource data and monitor implementing standards through 2030.