China 2049 tech vision forecasts AGI, robots and smart cities

The 2049 foresight report covered by Gizmodo en Español is revealing less for its specific dates than for the worldview it encodes: Chinese scientific elites are openly planning for a future where AGI, humanoid robots, mirror‑world digital twins and AI‑coordinated traffic systems are treated as baseline infrastructure, not science fiction. The document situates early AGI prototypes around 2030 and superintelligence by 2049, but emphasizes human–machine symbiosis and brain–computer interfaces over simple replacement.([es.gizmodo.com](https://es.gizmodo.com/china-ha-puesto-fecha-al-futuro-tecnologico-de-la-humanidad-en-2049-el-mundo-estara-marcado-por-la-ia-los-robots-y-las-ciudades-inteligentes-2000212302))

In the race to AGI, this kind of state‑adjacent long‑range planning matters. It suggests parts of China’s research and industrial ecosystem will be nudged toward goals like national LLMs, ubiquitous robotics and smart‑city platforms that assume very capable models. For non‑Chinese actors, the report is also a soft power signal: Beijing‑linked scientists are staking out a narrative where China is both a responsible steward and a primary beneficiary of superintelligent systems by mid‑century. That framing can influence everything from global standards bodies to where multinational firms place their R&D bets. Even if the precise dates slip, a country planning around AGI at the level of national development strategy is playing a different game than one treating it as a distant hypothetical.