OPC is an economic concept—not a foreign-founder legal shortcut
Beijing's trial plan supports AI-native micro-companies using models and automation as production infrastructure. An actual company still needs an appropriate legal structure, investment access, work and residence status, tax, banking, data and sector compliance.
Municipal resource infrastructure is conditional
Recognised OPC communities may provide tools, datasets, compute, low-cost workspace, startup services, finance and order matching.
The municipal plan describes up to three months of model, intelligent-compute and data services for admitted companies, capped at RMB 100,000 per company in aggregate. This is an eligibility-bound service package, not an automatic cash payment.
Community support has programme ceilings
The municipal plan states that qualifying OPC communities may receive up to RMB 2 million for service performance and may apply quarterly for resource-package reimbursement up to RMB 10 million per community per year. These figures apply to programme operators under stated rules, not directly to every founder.
Haidian makes OPC administratively concrete
Haidian rules address lawful operation, company age, team size, founder control and actual AI-resource use, alongside startup, model, housing, finance, insurance, R&D and commercialisation support.
Registered-address support exists—but does not erase actual-operation rules
Some individual OPC carriers may support qualifying companies with a registered address. That does not establish district-wide virtual registration or automatic benefit eligibility.