# Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on Promoting the Development of the Artificial Intelligence Sector

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Shanghai (China)
- **Instrument type**: Regulation
- **Status**: In force
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Issuing body**: Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress
- **Adopted**: 2022-09-22
- **In force**: 2022-10-01

## In brief

The Shanghai AI regulations (2022) is a binding regulation of Shanghai (China), issued by Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress. It has been in force since 1 October 2022. Government bodies and AI market actors in Shanghai. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

Promotes the AI industry and names the economy and informatization department as lead regulator; sets up a strategy advisory committee and an AI ethics expert committee; bans certain uses such as discrimination and algorithmic price discrimination; applies list-based compliance review to high-risk AI products and disclosure with after-the-fact control to lower-risk ones; and allows sandbox supervision.

## Scope

Government bodies and AI market actors in Shanghai.

## Who it applies to

AI developers, providers and users in Shanghai, and municipal authorities.

## Key dates

Adopted 22 September 2022 (Announcement No. 127); effective 1 October 2022. Six chapters, 72 articles.

## Notes on dates

Dates as stated in search extracts of the official source; confirm against it.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0050 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0050; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/cn-shanghai-regulations-promoting-ai-sector
- **Official source**: https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-LocalRules/20240913/4395d1563dd548b39406cbe8833c9ef6.html
- **Source document**: Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on Promoting the Development of the AI Sector (official English translation)
- **Published by**: Shanghai Municipal People's Government
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on Promoting the Development of the Artificial Intelligence Sector" [AIPT-POL-0050, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0050 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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