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, cons

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.