On the date, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference.

A journalist asked: According to reports, the U.S. Department of Commerce has sent a letter to TSMC, implementing export restrictions on certain complex chips designed at the nanometer level or more advanced, which are used for artificial intelligence accelerators and graphics processing units destined for China. Could the spokesperson comment on this?

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, He Yongqian, responded that China has taken note of the relevant situation. For some time, the U.S. has continuously abused export control measures, implemented long-arm jurisdiction, and intensified its suppression and containment of China's semiconductor industry, fragmenting the global semiconductor market. This constitutes a serious violation of international economic and trade rules, a crude interference in free trade, and is a typical non-market practice.

"Semiconductors are a typical example of global industrial division and cooperation. The US approach will seriously harm the interests of all parties and hinder global technological exchange and economic and trade cooperation," said He Yongqian.