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These provisions aim to regulate the use of algorithmic recommendation services online in China.

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.

In July 2021, MOST published guidelines that called for universities, labs, and companies to set up internal review committees to oversee and adjudicate technology ethics issues.

Nine agencies published objectives for regulating algorithms in Internet services, emphasizing business responsibility and party-state priorities.

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

The 14th Five-Year Plan includes the promotion of AI R&D.

The following document, issued by a state AI governance committee, lays out ethical norms for the use of AI in China.