Recently, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the "Annual Observation Report on Global Digital Economic and Trade Rules (2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). The report points out that digital trade, as a new form of trade, has strong resilience, great potential, and rapid development under the empowerment of digital technology, and continues to be an important driving force for global trade growth. From 2015 to 2024, global digital service trade maintained resilient growth for 10 consecutive years, with an average annual year-on-year growth rate of 8.9%, accounting for 53.4% of service trade. At the same time, the importance of digital economic and trade rules is increasingly prominent. As of September 2025, a total of 138 free trade agreements worldwide contain rules related to the digital field, covering over 110 countries, accounting for about 37% of the total number of existing free trade agreements. The report shows that the ability of major economies to construct digital economic and trade rules has significantly improved, and the Asia Pacific region has become a new engine for global digital trade development with its dual advantages of digital services and cross-border e-commerce. The region has also become the most active area in the network of digital economic and trade rules. Singapore, China and other countries are actively building a high-level network of digital economic and trade rules, creating a digital economic environment that is inclusive and innovative. The speed of signing digital economic and trade agreements in the European region has significantly accelerated, and the European Union, the United Kingdom, and others have readjusted their digital trade strategies, exploring pragmatic and flexible negotiation mechanisms and agenda combinations. The rapid growth of digital trade in Africa is accelerating in coordination with digital economic and trade rules. The report believes that artificial intelligence, as a universal emerging technology, has a transformative impact on digital trade, while also bringing applicability challenges and innovation opportunities to traditional digital economic and trade rules. On the one hand, the development of artificial intelligence technology has driven the continuous evolution of digital economic and trade rules, resulting in a demand for rule updates on issues such as cross-border data flow and source code. On the other hand, rules related to artificial intelligence have formed distinct characteristics in terms of their nature, format, and interactive mechanisms, promoting the sharing of achievements and standard coordination in international governance of artificial intelligence, and creating a favorable international environment for global innovation and development of artificial intelligence. Looking ahead, the global digital economic and trade rules system will continue to dynamically adjust. The report points out that the uncertainty of the trade environment will promote the deep adjustment of the digital economic and trade rules system, the development differentiation of digital trade regions will accelerate the reshaping of the regional network layout of digital economic and trade rules, the coordinated response to fragmented artificial intelligence governance will promote the evolution of emerging technology rules towards interoperability, and the improvement of developing countries' rule building capabilities will inject more impetus into digital cooperation in the "Global South". (New Society)