Chinese Local — AI Legislation
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Within China’s three-tier central — local — enterprise collaborative governance, AI legislation at the subnational level serves a pilot-and-experiment function: mechanisms tested locally (classification-and-grading, regulatory sandboxes, low-risk pilot-and-experiment) are often absorbed into national-level legislation. See the Methodology page and the five-tier legal hierarchy under rules/china/.
Collected
Section titled “Collected”Local People’s Congress legislation (comprehensive AI regulations)
Section titled “Local People’s Congress legislation (comprehensive AI regulations)”- Shenzhen Special Economic Zone AI Industry Promotion Regulation (2022) — China’s first local AI industry legislation, pioneering “low-risk AI pilot-and-experiment”.
Sector-specific implementation and public-sector practice
Section titled “Sector-specific implementation and public-sector practice”- Shanghai Government-Procurement Supervisory Agent Trial Measures (2026) — issued in June 2026 and effective 1 July; a procurement-sector workflow that treats AI alerts as auxiliary, requires human verification and preserves the evaluation committee’s legal responsibility.
The Shanghai instrument is intentionally separated from comprehensive local legislation: it regulates one government-procurement application and should not be read as a citywide AI Act.