Beijing has made AI a city-level industrial strategy
The 2026 action plan connects frontier technology, domestic intelligent computing, high-quality data, city-wide deployment, AI for Science, embodied intelligence, capital, open source and safety.
It states targets above RMB 1 trillion for the core AI industry and a 100,000-accelerator-class domestic intelligent-computing cluster. These are strategic targets, not guarantees.
Policy already speaks the language of modern AI builders
Beijing's agent measures address continual learning, long-horizon reasoning, tool use, long context, memory, multi-agent collaboration, context engineering, task persistence, AI-native software and AI operating systems.
Beijing has created a policy category for tiny AI-native companies
The municipal OPC plan supports agent development, AIGC, large-model fine-tuning and industry applications through recognised communities and resource infrastructure.
OPC is an economic and startup concept, not a special immigration route or a substitute for an appropriate legal entity.
Districts are beginning to specialise
Haidian concentrates models, software and research; Yizhuang connects AI with chips, manufacturing and robotics; Changping develops AI around life sciences; Huairou centres major scientific infrastructure and AI for Science.
Registration geography, operating geography and living geography may differ
Registration Node → Operating Node → Living Base is a planning model, not permission to ignore actual-operation, expenditure, project-location or programme conditions.