Guangzhou’s draft Artificial Intelligence Development Promotion Ordinance,
scheduled for a third reading and vote in October 2026, targets core compute
infrastructure and resource supply. The municipal development and reform
commission will lead cross‑department planning with the government data office,
industry and information technology bureau, and planning and resources
authorities to set short-, medium- and long‑term stepped construction targets
and a coordinated compute–power planning, construction and operation mechanism.
The draft mandates strategic siting of supercomputing centers, city‑edge
intelligent computing nodes and industry compute clusters, the creation of a
unified citywide compute coordination and dispatch platform, and exploration of
a market‑based compute trading mechanism to enable interconnection, elastic
scheduling and shared use of heterogeneous compute resources. The policy seeks
green, efficient, balanced allocation of compute and to provide broadly
accessible compute services for AI development.
