China: AI emerging as universal language across disciplines: Nobel laureate.

Shotlist Shanghai, China - July 14, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 1. Sign of 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance at venue China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Yaghi, 2025 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (partially overlaid with shot 3): "AI and robotics are going to help us connect the world a lot better, to have a more connected science. AI is a language that allows me as a chemist or as a material scientist to talk to an economist. That's a language that we both can communicate in and so on, and engineering, and all the other fields. So no longer will chemistry, will a chemist be confined to just knowledge about molecules, but rather a chemist would have knowledge of molecules and materials, but also a working knowledge with all these other fields where they can take their invention, and put it in society in a meaningful way." ++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++ FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 3. Animations of AI technology ++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++ Shanghai, China - July 14, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 4. Various of exhibitors in venue, workers working on construction, products on display China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Yaghi, 2025 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry: "I am now in the midst of a sea of great professors doing great things, and more importantly than even that, a sea of great student minds who are hungry to learn, hungry to do something new. And I want to develop our new institute focusing on AI, materials and chemistry, we call it "AMATRI", not only to serve Tsinghua, China, but also to serve the world. After all, science transcends all borders, should transcend all borders. The best science is done by transcending all borders." FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 6. Various of animations of AI-powered factory, city scape FILE: Guangdong Province, south China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 7. Various of researchers working, testing robot arms Storyline Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a universal language across science and society, connecting chemistry with economics and engineering, Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi said. Yaghi, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, told China Global Television Network (CGTN) that AI is transforming chemists from molecule specialists into scientists able to collaborate across disciplines. "AI and robotics are going to help us connect the world a lot better, to have a more connected science. AI is a language that allows me as a chemist or as a material scientist to talk to an economist. That's a language that we both can communicate in and so on, and engineering, and all the other fields. So no longer will chemistry, will a chemist be confined to just knowledge about molecules, but rather a chemist would have knowledge of molecules and materials, but also a working knowledge with all these other fields where they can take their invention, and put it in society in a meaningful way," he said. Yaghi has joined Tsinghua University full-time to lead the AI Chemistry and Materials Research Institute (AIMATRY) this year. From July 17 to 20, Shanghai is to host the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2026) with the theme "Intelligent Partners, Co-creating the Future." For Yaghi, who has always believed that science transcends borders, said such global gatherings are a natural extension of that conviction and his new institute at Tsinghua is built on the same principle. When asked about his plans for the new center, he spoke of his excitement about the academic environment at Tsinghua and his ambition for the institute to benefit the world. "I am now in the midst of a sea of great professors doing great things, and more importantly than even that, a sea of great student minds who are hungry to learn, hungry to do something new. And I want to develop our new institute focusing on AI, materials and chemistry, we call it "AMATRI", not only to serve Tsinghua, China, but also to serve the world. After all, science transcends all borders, should transcend all borders. The best science is done by transcending all borders," he said.