A Chinese state-owned enterprise in eastern Shandong Province has ordered employees to report their use of Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, Claude Code, and replace it with domestic alternatives, reflecting Beijing’s expanding restrictions on foreign AI tools.
An internal notice posted to social media instructs departments to investigate whether employees are using Claude Code or other overseas AI programming assistants and submit the results by July 17. Employees found to be using the software are instructed to switch to Chinese-developed AI coding tools.
The directive suggests that China’s campaign against foreign AI is extending beyond private technology companies into the country’s vast state-owned enterprise system….
Chinese State-Owned Firms Ordered to Replace Claude Code With Domestic AI Tools
