Shanghai has released the Implementation Plan for the National Digital Economy Innovation and Development Trial Zone.

　　On April 21, Shanghai released the "Implementation Plan for the National Digital Economy Innovation Development Pilot Zone (Shanghai)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan"), which clearly proposed that by 2028, the value of data elements should be fully activated, institutional construction should effectively lead innovation, the integration of real and digital economies should be further deepened, and significant achievements should be made in the construction of the pilot zone. It is reported that Shanghai is the third location to release an implementation plan for the National Digital Economy Innovation Development Pilot Zone, following Guangdong and Sichuan.

　　The "Implementation Plan" focuses on seven aspects, including advancing the market-oriented allocation of data elements, optimizing the layout of new digital infrastructure construction, strengthening innovation in key core technologies, empowering the construction of the "Five Centers" through the integration of real and digital economies, fostering digital industry clusters in stages, expanding high-level open cooperation, and enhancing talent and institutional support. It has formulated 30 measures.

　　Regarding the marketization of data elements, the "Implementation Plan" proposes implementing a data property rights system, formulating data property rights allocation rules for specific scenarios such as artificial intelligence development, exploring mechanisms for forming authorized operation prices for public data resources, researching and improving data revenue distribution mechanisms, enhancing the high-quality supply of public data resources, exploring the use of smart contracts to accelerate the approval efficiency of public data authorization, focusing on key industries such as healthcare and high-end manufacturing to create high-quality datasets, and exploring the construction of open-source communities for high-quality datasets.

　　In light of the recent tightening of AI computing power, the "Implementation Plan" proposes to "explore the formation of a regional computing power resource scheduling mechanism, promote interconnection and on-demand utilization of computing power, and upgrade and expand intelligent computing infrastructure by deploying high-performance domestic intelligent computing clusters."

　　For commercial satellites and the low-altitude economy, the "Implementation Plan" specifies to "accelerate the construction of the Thousand Sails Constellation, promote pilot commercialization of satellite internet services, and conduct pilot commercialization of satellite IoT services," as well as "promote the construction and standard improvement of comprehensive infrastructure such as Shanghai's low-altitude intelligent network system, and build an IoT perception system for civil unmanned aerial vehicles."

　　Focusing on innovation in key core technologies, the "Implementation Plan" proposes to tackle challenges in data science and intelligent technology, explore frontier technologies, and build digital technology innovation platforms. This includes "accelerating breakthroughs in next-generation general artificial intelligence, intelligent software, and intelligent computing systems," "speeding up pilot applications and productization of technologies such as brain-computer interfaces, sixth-generation mobile communication (6G), and quantum computing," and "building data innovation platforms in areas such as embodied intelligence, autonomous driving, and scientific research."

　　In terms of empowering the construction of the "Five Centers," the "Implementation Plan" specifically proposes to "implement special actions for 'AI+Manufacturing' and '5G+Industrial Internet,' support the development of industry-specific large models," "build 3-5 municipal-level scientific data centers," and "strengthen the common support capabilities of nine unified platforms, including Shanghai's digital-intelligence foundational platform."

　　Regarding the cultivation of digital industry clusters, the "Implementation Plan" proposes to "use intelligent agents to actively discover, accurately analyze, and intelligently evaluate digital commerce enterprises," "cultivate 50 benchmark enterprises in the digital economy," and focus on areas such as comprehensive logistics hub platforms, spatial-temporal data foundations for shipping, the development and trusted circulation of healthcare data, and high-quality industry datasets to organize and plan a series of major projects.

　　On expanding high-level open cooperation, the "Implementation Plan" proposes to "expand the coverage of key digitalization scenarios in shipping and trade to cities in the Yangtze River Delta such as Hefei, Zhoushan, and Suzhou," "expand the applicability of the negative list for data export to the entire Shanghai region," "build a digital overseas service platform, create a 'one-stop network' for digital overseas services and a digital overseas mall to enhance enterprises' overseas capabilities," and "develop new international data trade formats such as 'data processing on demand.'"

　　To improve legal guarantees, the "Implementation Plan" also specifies that it will amend the "Shanghai Regulations on Promoting the Application of Blockchain-Enabled Electronic Documents in Pudong New Area" and the "Shanghai Data Regulations," and explore special legislation in Pudong New Area to promote the innovative development of the digital economy. (Reporter Ye Jian)