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Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Regulation was formulated in accordance with relevant laws and
administrative regulations and based on the actual situation of the municipality in order
to promote the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry and
strengthen the functions of new generation AI science and technology (S&T)
innovation sources, promote the deep integration of AI with the economy, everyday life,
urban governance, and other fields, and create a world-class AI industrial cluster.
Article 2 As used in this Regulation, artificial intelligence refers to the system of
theories, methods, technologies, and applications that uses computers and
computer-controlled machines to simulate, extend, and expand human intelligence,
perceive the environment, acquire knowledge, and use knowledge to achieve optimal
results.
The AI industry refers to industries that perform software and hardware product
development and production, system applications, and service integration involved in
the research, development, and application of AI technology, such as the key basic
components industry, intelligent software industry, and smart terminal industry, as
well as related industries driven by the integration and application of AI technology in
fields such as the economy, everyday life, and urban governance.
Article 3 This Regulation applies to activities such as AI S&T innovation,
industrial development, application empowerment, and industrial governance within
the administrative region of this municipality.
Article 4 The development of the AI industry in this municipality should persist
in the principles of being people-centered (以人为本), using S&T for the common good,
being innovation-driven, and being market-led. It should build an AI industrial system
with open ecosystem integration, active innovation clusters, ubiquitous super scenarios
(超级场景), agile governance and security and create a “Shanghai bastion” of AI with
international influence.
Article 5 The Municipal People's Government shall strengthen its leadership
over the development of the municipality's AI industry, organize the formulation of AI
industry development plans and incorporate them into national economic and social
development plans, and guide and coordinate the resolution of major issues in AI S&T
innovation, industry cultivation, application scenario construction, and industrial
ecosystem construction.
The district people's governments shall, in accordance with the overall
requirements and deployments of the municipality, do a good job in the development
of the AI industry in their administrative areas and strengthen the application and
promotion of AI scenarios and the construction of the industrial ecosystem.
Township people's governments and sub-district offices shall strengthen AI S&T
applications and improve the level of smartification (智慧化) of grassroots services and
governance.
Article 6 The municipal economic and informatization departments (经济和信息
化部门) are the main oversight departments (主管部门) for the AI industry in the
municipality. They are responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and
promoting the development of the AI industry.
The municipal development and reform departments shall coordinate major
projects and infrastructure construction in the AI industry.
The municipal S&T departments shall support R&D and innovation for
cutting-edge basic theories and key technologies for AI, promote the construction of
major S&T innovation bases, and promote AI technology governance.
The municipal cybersecurity and informatization (网信) departments shall
coordinate the cybersecurity and informatization work in the development of the AI
industry and take responsibility for relevant network information content governance
and supervision management work.
The municipal market supervision departments shall be responsible for AI
industry measurement, standards, inspection and testing, certification and
accreditation, and other work related to product quality supervision.
The municipal state-owned assets supervision and administration, human
resources and social security, education, health, finance, statistics, national security,
and other departments shall formulate relevant policies and measures within their
respective jurisdictions to promote the development of the AI industry.
Article 7 The Municipal People's Government shall establish a Municipal
Artificial Intelligence Strategy Advisory Expert Committee (人工智能战略咨询专家委员
会) composed of experts from institutions of higher learning, scientific research
institutions, enterprises, and other organizations to provide advice on major strategies
and major decisions concerning the development of the AI industry in the municipality.
Article 8 AI industry associations and other AI-related industry organizations
(collectively referred to as industry organizations) shall protect the legitimate rights
and interests of their members in accordance with the law, promote the R&D and
promotion of AI technology, promote industrial collaboration, strengthen industry
self-discipline, carry out industry statistical monitoring, formulate standards and
specifications, and promote the orderly development of the industry.
Article 9 This Municipality encourages citizens, legal persons, and other
organizations to carry out various innovative activities in the field of AI provided such
activities are not explicitly prohibited by laws, regulations, and relevant national and
municipal regulations. The municipal economic and informatization departments,
together with other relevant departments, shall explore the establishment of a
negative checklist (负面清单) for fields including AI scientific research and application.
Article 10 This municipality shall promote the coordinated and integrated
development of the AI industry in the Yangtze River Delta region and explore and
jointly promote the convergence of cross-regional AI industry development plans,
mutual recognition of technical standards, sharing and mutual recognition of test data
in key fields, cost and benefit sharing for infrastructure construction, and other work.
The municipality shall expand cooperation with the AI industry in other regions in
China.
Article 11 The municipality shall deepen international cooperation. Relying on
the China International Import Expo, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and other
exhibition activities, we shall organize and introduce international high-level academic
conferences and joint innovation institutions related to AI, and provide an international
cooperation platform for relevant entities to participate in the development and
governance of the AI industry.
The municipality shall support enterprises, institutions of higher learning,
scientific research institutions, and other organizations in strengthening international
cooperation in areas such as AI basic research, technology development, industrial
development, standards formulation, and personnel training.
Article 12 The municipality shall promote the popularization of science and
technology in the field of AI, publicize new developments and new achievements in the
AI industry through media such as radio, television, newspapers, and the Internet, and
strengthen ethics, security, and social values guidance in the field of AI.
Chapter 2 Basic Factors of Production (要素) and S&T Innovation
Section 1 Basic Factors of Production
Article 13 The municipal economic and informatization departments, municipal
development and reform departments, and other departments shall strengthen the
planning of computing power (“compute”) infrastructure, promote the construction of
public compute infrastructure, promote the green and low-carbon development of
compute infrastructure, and support relevant entities as they carry out compute
infrastructure construction and open applications based on self-developed
AI-dedicated computing architectures.
The municipal economic and informatization departments shall, in conjunction
with the municipal development and reform departments and S&T departments, and
other departments, formulate measures for the supply of public compute resources,
promote the construction and utilization of public compute platforms, strengthen the
scientific scheduling (调度) of compute, provide public computing power support for AI
technology and industrial development through compute awards and other methods,
and ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can obtain inclusive public
compute.
The municipality shall encourage relevant entities to participate in the
construction of compute infrastructure, carry out marketized compute resource
transactions, guide the various industries to use compute resources in a reasonable and
orderly manner, and improve the utilization efficiency of compute infrastructure.
Article 14 In accordance with national deployments, the municipality shall
implement the "East-West Compute Transfer" project, cooperate with other provinces
and cities in the Yangtze River Delta to build a Yangtze River Delta national hub node
for a national integrated big data center system, optimize the layout of data center
infrastructure construction, improve the cross-network and cross-regional data
interaction capabilities of data centers, guide the intensive, large-scale, and green
development of data centers, and ensure the compute demand of AI industry
development [can be met].
Article 15 The municipality shall support algorithm innovation, use policy
support, platform construction, and other methods to encourage relevant entities to
carry out algorithm R&D, realize algorithm credibility, conversion into hardware,
modularization, systematization, and platformization (平台化), and promote the
innovative development, application, and promotion of algorithm models.
The municipal economic and informatization departments shall support relevant
entities in building and operating open-source platforms, open-source communities,
and open-source projects for proprietary technologies, promote the compliant
application of open-source software projects, accelerate commercialization training,
and form a healthy open-source open ecosystem.
Article 16 The municipality shall promote the trading and circulation of algorithm
models. The municipal economic and informatization departments, together with other
relevant departments, shall guide industry organizations to formulate a catalog of
recommended AI algorithm models, reduce risks in algorithm model transactions, and
improve the efficiency of algorithm model transactions.
The municipality shall encourage enterprises or third-party institutions to carry
out algorithm model testing and evaluation. For algorithm models involving the public
interest, the municipality shall encourage relevant entities to actively submit evaluation
reports to relevant main oversight departments such as the municipal economic and
informatization departments and explain the basic principles and intended purposes of
algorithms in a way that the public can understand.
The municipality shall strengthen the protection of algorithm models and promote
the application and promotion of algorithm models in compliance with laws. The
municipal economic and informatization departments, together with other relevant
departments, shall explore a filing system for algorithm models that have been tested
and evaluated, focusing on AI-related data sets, algorithm design, and model training.
This municipality shall encourage industry organizations to formulate guidelines
for collaborative algorithm innovation and cooperation and improve benefit-sharing
mechanisms in the trading and circulation of algorithm models.
Article 17 The municipality shall promote the construction of high-quality data
sets in the AI field. It shall support relevant entities to deeply integrate data and
industry knowledge, develop data products, and serve algorithm design, model
training, product verification, scenario applications, and other needs.
The municipality shall encourage relevant entities to carry out collaborative R&D
on big data and AI technology, develop dedicated tools and a series of standards for
data labeling, build big data laboratories for AI training, and build a large-scale AI data
resource library.
The municipal economic and informatization departments shall, in conjunction
with other relevant departments, conduct surveys of AI industry data resources,
strengthen the organization of available data resources of key areas and key
enterprises, summarize key industry data resources, and promote the development of
the AI industry.
Article 18 Relying on the public data opening mechanism, the municipality shall
establish a dynamic open list of public data in areas such as economic development,
people's livelihood services, and urban governance, promote the categorized, graded,
and orderly opening of public data in fields such as life and health and autonomous
driving, and expand the scope of public data supply for the AI industry. It shall support
relevant entities to apply for public data opening individually or jointly and ensure the
fair use of open data by SMEs and individual developers.
The municipality shall support AI enterprises in developing and using data
generated in AI applications, encourage enterprises to carry out transactions involving
related data products through the Shanghai Data Exchange, create data value and
distribute the added-value benefits of data in accordance with laws and regulations,
and promote data circulation and trading in the AI industry.
Section 2 S&T Innovation
Article 19 The Municipal People's Government and its relevant departments shall
formulate policies and encourage institutions of higher learning, scientific research
institutions, and enterprises to carry out basic theoretical research and key general
purpose technology R&D on major cutting-edge scientific issues in the AI field.
The municipality shall support institutions of higher learning, scientific research
institutions, and enterprises as they carry out research in interdisciplinary and
cross-disciplinary fields related to AI and undertake major S&T and industrial
innovation special projects.
Article 20 The Municipal People's Government and its relevant departments shall
strengthen their support for major AI S&T infrastructure and major scientific research
platforms, serve and promote the innovation and development of relevant national
laboratories and the improvement of the capabilities of state key laboratories, and
support the construction of AI research institutions affiliated with institutions of higher
learning, scientific research institutions, and enterprises.
Article 21 Institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions, and
enterprises can adopt various methods to establish new research and development
(R&D) institutions, explore an integrated model of R&D, testing, and application
adapted to the rapid iteration of AI, use market mechanisms to integrate advanced AI
technology and high-quality resources, and carry out activities such as R&D, innovative
talent cultivation, and achievement application and promotion.
Article 22 The municipality shall encourage institutions of higher learning,
scientific research institutions, and enterprises to carry out AI innovation and
independent R&D in all fields, support the research, development, and production of
core systems and key software and hardware, and realize the independent
controllability (自主可控) of cutting-edge technologies and their applications in the
fields of underlying interfaces, general purpose algorithms, and data processing
protocols.
Article 23 The municipality shall encourage institutions of higher learning,
scientific research institutions, and enterprises to open large-scale scientific
instruments and facilities in the AI field to society.
The municipal economic and informatization departments and S&T departments
shall work with other relevant departments to improve the incentive mechanisms for
the opening up and sharing of large-scale scientific instruments and facilities in the AI
field.
Article 24 The municipality shall increase the AI industry technology innovation
layout in strategic emerging industry projects and increase support for AI industry
technology innovation, industrial foundation reengineering, and industrial
demonstration applications in high-quality industrial projects.
Municipal S&T departments shall set up special AI projects in major municipal
S&T innovation projects and support the development of basic theory and core
technology research for AI technology.
Article 25 The municipality shall promote the reform of scientific research project
establishment and organizational management methods, empower AI innovation
teams and leading talents with greater technical approach decision-making authority
and authority to use funds, and support the adoption of flexible salary systems and
incentive measures for scientific researchers who undertake major AI S&T research
tasks.
The municipality shall explore granting scientific researchers ownership or
long-term use rights to S&T achievements in the AI field.
Article 26 The municipality shall establish incentive mechanisms to help promote
the conversion of S&T achievements into practical applications (科技成果转化) in the AI
field, encourage relevant entities to carry out cooperation in the conversion of S&T
achievements into practical applications, support researchers from institutions of
higher learning and scientific research institutions in engaging in the conversion of S&T
achievements into practical applications by starting businesses after leaving their
current positions, while staying on at their current positions, or by working part-time in
enterprises, and encourage the establishment of professional service institutions for
the conversion of S&T achievements into practical applications in the AI field.
Chapter 3 Industry Development
Section 1 General Regulations
Article 27 The municipality shall provide a good development environment for AI
enterprises, take measures to improve the construction of an AI ecosystem featuring
software and hardware integration, strengthen the concentration of AI enterprises, and
establish a sound AI production chain.
Article 28 The Municipal People's Government and relevant departments shall
formulate measures to bring in leading Chinese and foreign AI enterprises to establish
headquarters in the municipality and expand emerging businesses. For leading
enterprises with strong innovation capabilities, the municipal government and relevant
departments shall strengthen investment and financing, R&D, talent, market, and other
policy support, improve the core technology level and business capabilities of
enterprises, and cultivate world-class S&T leading enterprises (龙头企业).
The municipality shall attract first-class Chinese and foreign research institutions
and talent teams and incubate and cultivate AI startups.
Article 29 The municipality shall support leading AI enterprises in opening up AI
operating systems, algorithm frameworks, general purpose technologies, and data
resources, drive the coordinated upstream and downstream development of the
production chain, and build an AI industry ecosystem.
Article 30 The municipality shall build characteristic AI industrial parks (人工智能
特色产业园区), strengthen the attractiveness of projects, and promote the development
of industry clusters.
The municipality shall encourage characteristic AI industrial parks to provide
services for talent recruitment, intellectual property protection, listing guidance,
investment and financing matchmaking, and rent reduction and exemptions.
The municipal economic and informatization departments and other departments
shall evaluate the degree of intelligentization (智能化) of characteristic industrial parks
in accordance with relevant regulations.
Article 31 The municipality shall coordinate various special funds to support AI
basic research, technological innovation, the conversion of achievements into practical
applications, demonstration applications, talent recruitment, and important
international cooperation and exchanges. For enterprises, institutions, or projects that
have received municipal financial support, each district can provide corresponding
auxiliary support.
Municipal and district financial departments shall focus on new technologies and
new products such as the first round of AI smart chips, the first units (sets) of major
technical equipment for AI, the first version of AI software applications, and the first
version of AI software products. They shall strengthen special support for qualified
innovative projects and explore support methods such as loan interest discounts.
The municipality shall encourage investment in AI R&D. Enterprises can include
the innovation costs of AI products and technologies in R&D expenses and implement
additional deductions in accordance with national regulations.
Article 32 Relevant municipal and district departments can support key AI
projects that follow the industrial development orientation in accordance with relevant
regulations such as on the nature of land use, floor area ratio, and building height,
giving priority guarantees to compute consumption indicators, terminal communication
spectrum resources, and project power capacity connection.
Article 33 The municipality shall channel social capital to support the
development of the AI industry through various channels such as venture capital,
venture capital funds, and capital market financing.
The municipality shall encourage state-owned capital to participate in AI industry
investment. The municipal state-owned assets supervision and administration
departments shall establish and improve a state-owned assets supervision system
adapted to the development of the AI industry in accordance with relevant national
and municipal regulations. Through the establishment of government funds such as AI
industry funds, the municipality shall allow industrial investment guidance funds to
play their due roles, mobilize various resources from society, and focus on supporting
early-stage projects and rapid-growth startup enterprises in the AI field.
The municipality's local financial supervision and economic informatization
departments shall support qualified AI companies in going public and raising funds in
capital markets such as the STAR Market.
The municipality shall encourage banks and other financial institutions to provide
special loan support for AI enterprises.
Article 34 The municipality shall encourage institutions of higher learning to set
up AI-related disciplines and interdisciplinary programs, support enterprises,
institutions of higher learning, and scientific research institutions to jointly build
education bases that integrate industry and education, and strengthen the cultivation
of hybrid talents (复合型人才).
The municipality shall improve the evaluation standards for talents in the AI field
and promote the evaluation of intermediate and senior professional titles of AI
engineering and technical personnel and the evaluation of AI instructors. It shall
explore the introduction and integration of international vocational training programs in
the AI field and implement training and evaluation for digital technology engineers.
The municipal economic and informatization departments shall, in conjunction
with the municipal human resources and social security departments and other
departments, include high-level, highly skilled, and scarce talents in the AI field in the
scope of talent policy support and provide these talents conveniences in terms of
household registration and residence permit processing, housing, medical assurance,
and schooling for children.
Article 35 The municipality shall strengthen the protection of intellectual
property rights in the AI field, improve interactive support mechanisms for
technological innovation, intellectual property protection, and standardization in the AI
field, promote the intellectual property rights of AI innovation achievements, and
promote the application and popularization of new AI technologies. According to the
relevant national and municipal regulations, the municipality shall support the
inclusion of patent applications related to AI in the scope of rapid patent examination
and confirmation services and improve the collaborative protection, rapid rights
protection, and foreign rights protection systems for intellectual property rights in the
AI field.
Article 36 The municipality shall encourage relevant insurance institutions to
develop insurance products adapted to the characteristics of the AI industry in
accordance with national regulations. These products shall cover the full lifecycle of
business activities, such as product R&D, production, sales, and application.
The municipality shall support relevant entities in purchasing relevant insurance
products when applying AI products and services.
Article 37 The Municipal People's Government and relevant departments shall
support the municipality's AI enterprises and relevant industry organizations to take a
leading role in the formulation of national standards, industry standards, and local
standards for AI and participate in the formulation of technical standards for algorithm
performance, data security, privacy protection, product compatibility, and performance
testing.
The municipal market supervision departments shall formulate local standards for
AI based on the actual development of the municipality's AI industry and guide the
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee to strengthen
relevant local standards and related technical work (技术归口工作). Municipal market
supervision departments, municipal economic and informatization departments, and
other departments shall guide AI enterprises and relevant industry organizations in
taking the lead in studying and formulating enterprise standards and group standards
related to AI. After voluntary application and evaluation by a third-party organization,
the special AI "Shanghai Standard" identifier can be placed in the text of standards that
meet the requirements to be leaders in China and advanced internationally.
Article 38 The municipality shall establish a statistical categorization system for
the AI industry. The municipal statistics departments shall, in conjunction with the
municipal economic and informatization departments, formulate statistical
categorization standards for the AI industry, conduct statistical surveys, monitoring,
and analysis on the AI industry, and provide support for industry development trend
assessment and the formulation of policies and measures.
Section 2 Key Advances to Promote
Article 39 According to the development trends of global AI technology and the
global AI industry, the municipality shall leverage the municipality's industrial
advantages and development foundation to promote the high-quality development of
basic hardware, key software, and smart products by increasing policy support,
building an innovation system, and promoting cluster development (集群发展).
Article 40 The municipality shall support relevant entities to carry out design
innovations for high-efficiency smart chips based on advanced architectures, develop
cloud chips and cloud smart servers, lay out neuromorphic chips (类脑芯片), strengthen
software and hardware collaboration and adaptation, support joint construction of R&D
testing and application platforms, strengthen technical collaboration and chip
architecture interconnection, improve the competitiveness of smart chip products and
technologies, and cultivate a smart chip application ecosystem.
The municipal development and reform departments and municipal economic and
informatization departments shall promote the application of smart chips with
proprietary technology in major projects such as computing power infrastructure.
Article 41 The municipality shall support relevant entities as they strengthen the
R&D and application of AI framework software, develop engine framework tool
systems, deepen AI framework and platform applications, and strengthen the mutual
adaptation, performance optimization, and application popularization of AI framework
software, chips, and other hardware.
The municipality shall support relevant entities as they develop artificial AI
system software, develop and popularize machine self-learning systems, encourage
relevant entities to develop operating systems for intelligent products, and promote
the development of various application functions.
Article 42 The municipality shall promote the standardized and modularized
construction of intelligent robot software and hardware systems, support the
cultivation of intelligent robot system integrators, encourage relevant enterprises,
product users, and financial institutions to adopt methods such as product leasing and
service procurement, and expand the application scenarios of intelligent robots.
The municipal economic and informatization departments and municipal market
supervision departments shall promote industry organizations as they formulate
standards such as those for robot intelligence level categorization and application
safety testing, guide the iteration of intelligent robot technology, and ensure the
information security and safe use of intelligent robots.
Article 43 The municipality shall support the independent R&D and industrial
application of key technologies, operating systems, dedicated chips, and core
components of intelligent networked vehicles.
The municipality shall support relevant entities as they carry out intelligent
connected vehicle testing, demonstration applications, and demonstration operations
on highways (including expressways), urban roads (including urban expressways), and
specific areas in the municipality in accordance with relevant regulations. The specific
regulations shall be formulated by the municipal departments of economy and
informatization, transportation, public security, and other departments.
Article 44 The municipality shall encourage the development of the unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) industry, support the construction of civil unmanned aviation test
bases (test areas), UAV take-off and landing points and general airports, and UAV
operation and management service platforms, strengthen multi-department
coordination and supervision, provide route planning, electronic fence setting, and
other services through operation and management service platforms, and support the
expansion of UAV application scenarios.
The municipality shall encourage the development of the unmanned surface
vehicle (USV) industry, improve the support systems such as USV electronic channel
surveying and intelligent shipping communications, and carry out USV channel tests in
specific areas.
Article 45 The municipality shall support relevant entities in the R&D of key
technologies for AI medical devices, strengthen breakthroughs in intelligence-assisted
diagnostic algorithms, surgical positioning and navigation, and integrated
brain-computer interfaces; strengthen the relevant guidance services for the
registration and approval of AI medical devices and support the entry of relevant
innovative products to the special approval process for national innovative medical
devices; and support the exploration of fee charging models in the clinical applications
of qualified AI medical devices.
Chapter 4 Application Empowerment
Section 1 General Regulations
Article 46 The municipality shall promote the large-scale application of AI in the
fields of the economy, everyday life, and urban governance, accelerate digital
transformations, encourage relevant organizations to adopt methods such as product
leasing, service procurement, system integration, and financial leasing, and use AI
technology and products to conduct R&D, manufacturing, service, management, and
other businesses.
The municipal economic and informatization departments shall, in conjunction
with relevant departments, formulate and regularly update the AI demonstration
application list and guide relevant parties to strengthen AI application in the fields of
the economy, everyday life, and urban governance.
Municipal state institutions, public institutions, state-owned enterprises (SOEs),
and other organizations authorized by laws and regulations to manage public affairs in
this city shall take the lead in implementing the AI demonstration application list,
optimize procurement systems as needed, improve transaction mechanisms, and
procure and use safe and reliable AI-related products and services.
Article 47 The municipality shall promote the application of innovative products
and services in the AI field. For eligible new products and initial applications, support
shall be provided in accordance with relevant policies. Government procurement
purchasers may, upon approval in accordance with the law, purchase innovative
products that meet the standards for public tender through non-public tender.
The municipal economic and informatization departments, in conjunction with
municipal S&T departments, shall include qualified AI products and services in the
municipality's catalog of recommended innovative products.
Article 48 The municipality shall establish an open system for AI application
scenarios. The municipal economic and informatization departments shall establish and
improve relevant incentive mechanisms, regularly solicit and publish application
scenario requirements and demonstration solution lists, build a real-world scenario testing environment, and promote scenario cultivation, discovery, implementation, and demonstration scenario promotion.
Relevant entities involved in AI applications shall promote the optimization,
upgrading, and continuous operation of application scenarios. They shall encourage
diverse entities such as third-party service institutions and financial institutions to
participate in the construction and operation of AI scenarios.
Article 49 Relevant municipal departments shall organize industry organizations
to formulate evaluation methods for AI application effectiveness, establish evaluation
mechanisms for the intelligence level of AI products and applications, explore and
evaluate the comprehensive social impact of AI products and applications, and promote
the in-depth application and continuous innovation of AI.
Article 50 Pudong New Area shall serve as a pilot area for AI innovation and
applications, carry out pilot projects for institutional innovation in the AI field, and
accelerate the mutual development of leading industries such as AI, integrated circuits,
and biotechnology, medicine, and pharmaceuticals.
Pudong New Area shall explore the establishment of AI asset evaluation systems
for assets such as compute, algorithm models, and high-quality datasets, encourage
relevant industry organizations to formulate AI asset assessment guidelines, construct
AI asset evaluation indicators, and support relevant institutions as they carry out AI
asset evaluation in Pudong New Area.
In accordance with the relevant national and municipal regulations, the relevant
municipal departments and the Pudong New Area People's Government shall intensify
innovative pilot efforts in areas such as the commercialized operation of intelligent
connected vehicles, technological breakthroughs in the R&D of AI medical devices and
AI-assisted drugs, and the testing and operation of UAVs and USVs.
Section 2 Economic Applications
Article 51 The municipality shall promote the deep integration and innovation of
AI, information technology, and manufacturing and promote the integrated application
of key technical equipment for smart manufacturing, core support software, and
industrial internet systems. The municipality shall support enterprises as they carry out
technological transformation and upgrading through special policies to promote
high-quality industrial development and promote the digitalization and
intelligentization transformation of the manufacturing industry.
Article 52 The municipality shall promote the in-depth integration of AI, big data,
and the financial industry, encourage the financial industry to improve multimedia
financial data processing and understanding capabilities, promote the intelligentization
transformation of the financial industry, and develop intelligent financial product and
service innovations.
The municipality shall support financial institutions and other market entities in
the application of AI technologies and equipment such as intelligent investment
advisors, intelligent customer service, and intelligent risk control and improve
intelligent early warning and prevention and control capabilities for financial risks.
Article 53 Relevant municipal departments shall support enterprises as they
apply new AI-based business services and decision-making systems, encourage
enterprises to develop and apply new technologies such as cross-media analysis and
reasoning and knowledge computing engines (知识计算引擎) in the business field, and
promote the intelligentization transformation of business.
Article 54 The relevant municipal departments shall take measures to promote
the digital and intelligentization upgrading of cargo management, transportation
services, and station facilities, support enterprises as they develop and promote the
application of emerging intelligent logistics equipment such as intelligent loading and
unloading, sorting and packaging, and processing and distribution, and improve the
level of automation and intelligentization in logistics processes.
Section 3 Everyday Life Applications
Article 55 The municipality shall encourage the application of AI technology on
the Internet, promote AI to improve the matching and predictability of information
searches, expand content production and interpersonal interaction methods in social
media, and promote the integrated online and offline development of e-commerce.
Article 56 The municipality shall promote the normalization of AI in teaching,
management, resource construction, and other end-to-end applications and establish a
new type of modern education system and innovative talent training system suited to
the intelligence age; build digital twin schools and explore the construction of
applications such as digitization experiments, training, and venues; and explore the
application of AI technology to enrich the supply of educational resources and build
intelligentized and open educational resource platforms.
The municipality shall encourage educational institutions, enterprises, and other
institutions to provide intelligent, targeted, and personalized services in various
learning scenarios and help build an intelligent education ecosystem environment.
Article 57 The municipality shall promote the application and innovation of AI in
the medical field, build intelligent medical infrastructure, establish a new model for
AI-empowered medical services, improve medical technology innovation capabilities,
and promote the intelligentization transformation of the medical field. It shall support
medical institutions, enterprises, and other applications, develop intelligent medical
systems featuring human-computer coordination (人机协同), and encourage the
development of flexible, wearable, and biocompatible intelligent physiological
monitoring systems.
Article 58 The municipality shall promote the application of AI to improve the
quality of urban elder care and enhance the intelligentization transformation and
upgrading of urban elder care infrastructure; encourage relevant entities to adopt AI
technology, intelligent terminals, and digital platforms to provide convenient elder care
services; and encourage relevant entities to develop intelligentized and
age-appropriate elder care products and services.
Section 4 Urban Governance Applications
Article 59 The municipality shall promote the application of AI to improve the
modernization level of urban governance capabilities and increase AI technology
application and investment in the construction of informatized government systems.
The municipality shall strengthen the integrated construction of "unified online
government services" for government services and "unified online management" for
urban operations, develop AI platforms for government services and decision-making,
apply AI technology in innovative manners, and strengthen dynamic, intelligent, and
precise monitoring of the urban operating status.
Article 60 The municipality shall strengthen the construction of intelligentized
urban infrastructure, promote the scientific deployment of intelligent terminals for
video and images, monitoring and sensing, and control and implementation, strengthen
the integration of AI technology and Internet of Things applications, and support the
precise interaction between the physical city and digital city.
Article 61 The municipality shall build an intelligent hub for urban operations,
establish a distributed, multi-center urban data hub system, promote the realization of
cross-department, cross-industry, and cross-regional data collaboration, technical
collaboration, and business collaboration, encourage the development of AI solutions
for the different application scenarios of digital cities, and build urban digital twin
platforms.
Article 62 The municipality shall comprehensively promote AI scenarios and
applications in urban governance, focus on fields such as community governance,
public safety, traffic management, emergency management, market supervision,
ecological environment protection, planning and construction, and the management of
glass curtain walls in buildings, deepen the comprehensive application of AI, improve
overall urban operation and decision-making efficiency, and improve prevention and
emergency response capabilities for public health and other emergencies.
Article 63 The municipality shall support the construction of a smart justice (智慧
司法) system, integrate functions such as data application, judicial disclosure, and
dynamic tracking, promote the application of AI in case triage (案件分流), evidence
collection, case analysis, legal document reading and analysis, and other areas, and
improve the intelligentization level of the judicial system.
Chapter 5 Industry Governance and Security
Article 64 The municipality shall adhere to the holistic approach to national
security (总体国家安全观), coordinate the development and security of the AI industry,
and ensure the security of the production and supply chains. Relevant departments
shall conduct security inspections and supervision of AI applications in accordance with
the law.
Article 65 The Municipal People's Government and relevant departments shall
target new technologies, new industries, new business formats, and new models of AI,
adapt to the rapid iteration that is a feature of AI, formulate, revise, or abolish
corresponding regulatory rules and standards, explore level-by-level governance and
sandbox regulation, stimulate the innovative vitality of various entities, and expand the
space that AI has to develop.
The municipality shall implement checklist-style management (清单式管理) for
high-risk AI products and services and conduct compliance reviews in accordance with
the principles of necessity, appropriateness, and controllability. The municipality shall
adopt a governance model of disclosure in advance and control after the fact for lowand medium-risk AI products and services and promote pilot trials. The specific
measures shall be formulated separately by the Municipal People's Government.
Relevant municipal departments can formulate a list of non-administrative
penalties for minor violations in the development of the AI industry and encourage
citizens, legal persons, and other organizations to carry out production and business
activities in compliance with laws and regulations through measures such as criticism
and education and guidance through scheduled conversations (约谈).
Article 66 The municipality shall establish an AI ethics expert committee to
perform the following duties:
(1) Organize the formulation of ethical norms and guidelines for the AI field;
(2) Guide institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions,
enterprises, and relevant industry organizations to conduct research and explorations
on ethical theories in the AI field and promote participation in discussions on major
ethical issues in the AI field and the formulation of norms in China and abroad;
(3) Encourage AI enterprises to explore and establish ethics and security
governance systems;
(4) Carrying out assessments of the potential risks of AI applications involving life,
health, public safety, and other key areas;
(5) Carry out ethical advisory activities in the AI field and provide decision-making
consulting services for relevant departments;
(6) Carry out education and propaganda on ethics and safety in the AI field.
Article 67 Relevant entities that carry out AI R&D and application shall abide by
laws and regulations, enhance their ethical awareness, and shall not engage in the
following behaviors:
(1) Providing products and services that endanger national security or social
security and public security;
(2) Providing products and services that endanger the safety of the persons or
property of users or infringe on personal privacy or personal information rights;
(3) Providing products and services that discriminate against users on the basis of
ethnicity, race, gender, age, occupation, or religious beliefs;
(4) Using algorithm technology to carry out price discrimination, consumption
fraud, or other behaviors that infringe upon the rights and interests of consumers, or to
conduct monopolistic or unfair competition behaviors;
(5) Using deep synthesis (深度合成) technology to engage in conduct prohibited
by the state;
(6) Engaging in other behavior that violates relevant laws, regulations, public
order, and good morals.
Article 68 Entities that use biometric recognition technology to provide services
and entities that provide corresponding technical support (hereinafter referred to as
biometric service providers) shall adopt secure and controllable (安全可控) technical
safeguard measures and establish sound algorithm management systems. The
municipal cybersecurity and informatization departments and other departments shall
strengthen the supervision of biometric information and supervise and guide biometric
service providers in their provision of relevant services.
Article 69 Employers shall comply with laws, regulations, and ethical norms in
the application of AI technology to assist in labor discipline management, labor
scheduling, and recruitment and promotion decisions. They shall not set discriminatory
conditions and shall protect the legitimate rights and interests of laborers.
Article 70 The municipality shall strengthen the application of AI in fields such as
education, healthcare, elder care, child care, and assistance for the disabled to improve
the quality of life of special groups such as the elderly, the disabled, women, and
minors. In the provision of intelligentized public services, the needs of special groups
such as the elderly, the disabled, women, and minors shall be fully considered and
alternative solutions shall be set up when necessary.
Chapter 7 Supplementary Provisions
Article 71 The AI technology referred to in this Regulation is the AI technology
listed in the State Council's New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan,
including machine learning, knowledge graphs, natural language processing, computer
vision, human-computer interaction, biometric feature recognition, virtual reality
(augmented reality), and other key technologies.
Article 72 This Regulation shall come into force on October 1, 2022.