China's economic planner says it will speed up a comprehensive AI law, as reported by Beijing Daily

Beijing Daily published a report at 12:02 on 3 November 2026 of a National Development and Reform Commission press conference that morning, in the commission's series on the 15th Five-Year Plan. As reported by Beijing Daily, Wang Ruomeng, a deputy director-general of the commission's Department of Innovation and High-Tech Development, said China will keep development and security together in that period and put safety through research, use and governance of artificial intelligence. The commission's own notice of the same briefing, dated 3 November 2026, lists Wang among the officials and says the questions included the orderly development of artificial intelligence. That notice does not set out the four areas below. Those points are Beijing Daily's account.

Beijing Daily says the first area is rules that make the compliance boundary clear. It says that includes speeding up basic, comprehensive AI legislation, and legislation on shared elements such as data, computing power and algorithms and on key uses, plus safety standards and ethical norms covering the whole life cycle of AI. It says implementation will be reviewed periodically and rules that no longer fit will be adjusted. The second area is a regulatory approach with transition periods, published requirements, compliance guidance, and regulatory sandboxes for different sectors, including how a sandbox is applied for, tested, used and left. The third is shared responsibility: departments should coordinate, industry groups should develop consensus and self-regulation, and developers and operators should disclose safety risks and report safety incidents and vulnerability information. The fourth is social effects, including jobs, a social-security link to changes in work, tracing misuse such as algorithmic discrimination, deepfakes and privacy leaks, and guidance against addiction and emotional dependence.

What it means for business: this is an official's account of work planned for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, as reported by Beijing Daily. The pages that were opened do not publish a draft, an effective date, or a penalty. Existing Chinese AI rules are unchanged by this briefing. This describes the report. It is not advice on a particular system.