The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has issued the National Informatisation Plan for the 15th Five-Year period, and the accompanying question-and-answer document was published by the Cyberspace Administration of China on 23 October. The plan sets 12 headline indicators for 2030: internet penetration, 5G base stations per 10,000 people, IPv6 traffic share, the power usage effectiveness of new large compute facilities, research spending intensity in computer and communications manufacturing, valid invention patents in core digital-economy industries, the penetration of new-generation intelligent terminals and agents, the digital economy core industries share of GDP, the share of firms with fully digitalised key business steps, cross-border e-commerce volume, the share of adults with advanced digital skills, and electronic social security card coverage. It also projects a commercial 6G launch at an appropriate time, a basically completed national blockchain network, and an accelerated build-out of what the document calls an intelligent internet. Work is organised as three systems, five levels and two supports, across 10 areas, 25 tasks and 7 special columns. On the security side it lists protection for new technologies and applications, data security and personal information protection, and facilitation of cross-border data flows.
Our takeThe load-bearing item is the indicator, not the 2030 date: agent penetration becomes a number the state tracks. A tracked number needs a definition, and the document does not supply one, so whether an agent means an assistant with tool calls or an autonomous process will move the figure more than any model gain. The same list couples power efficiency limits on new compute with a 6G window, which frames deployment as an energy and network problem rather than a modelling one. The measurement annex, when it appears, is the part worth reading.