Shanghai issued an action plan to implement measures to boost private
investment, including measures to reduce costs for public data, compute, models
and training data. The city will provide compute subsidies in accordance with
law and support private firms renting smart-computing resources for large-model
R&D, training and deployment. Higher-education institutions, research institutes
and state-owned firms are encouraged to use data storage and compute resources
built by private and other market entities. Shanghai will publish and
dynamically update a public-data openness list and support private firms in deep
development and scenario-based use of specific public data. The plan promotes
issuance of compute-power vouchers, model vouchers and training-data vouchers to
lower usage costs of digital inputs, and supports private participation in
digital transformation projects across transport, logistics and public services.
It also encourages private-led demonstration projects for new infrastructure
such as blockchain applications and robotics at scale.
