The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

The Plan involves initiatives and goals for R&D, industrialization, talent development, education and skills acquisition, standard setting and regulations, ethical norms, and security.

Beijing Normal University (BNU) has launched China's first undergraduate programme dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) education, aimed at addressing a critical shortage of specialised AI teachers in primary and secondary schools.

The CAICT is working with China's AI Industry Alliance, a government-sponsored industry body, to test and certify different kinds of AI systems.

China's six-level standards, called Taxonomy of Driving Automation for Vehicles, provides official definitions for self-driving cars from level zero (L0), which relies largely on human drivers, to L5 that achieves full driving automation.

China has published its first national standards for grading autonomous driving, which will come into force in March 2022, providing a benchmark for carmakers to develop the futuristic technology.