At the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, AI development became a focus of attention across Shanghai. Shanghai is a development highland for China's AI industry. Statistics show that in 2025, the industrial scale of 394 large-scale AI enterprises in Shanghai exceeded 637 billion yuan, up 39.5% year on year, becoming a new driver of the city's GDP growth. AI is one of Shanghai's three leading industries and has accelerated in recent years. Statistics also show 169 large models in the city have been filed, and finance, medical and manufacturing sectors are actively advancing 'AI+' initiatives; in the first quarter of 2026 alone, AI manufacturing output grew 19.2%, above the average growth of the three leading industries. Cheng Junfeng, Party Secretary and Director of the Shanghai Municipal Tax Service, said the tax department will continue deepening reform and innovation, precisely implementing tax and fee policies, focusing on the whole innovation chain of basic research, application development and commercialization, improving the city's '2366' industrial tax-preference policy guidance, and continuously optimizing mechanisms such as 'benefits without application' and 'policy finds the people.' It will enhance tax governance efficiency, empower tax and fee services with digital intelligence, respond to and effectively resolve tax-related bottlenecks in sci-tech enterprises, and attract and retain talent with a first-class tax business environment. The Municipal Data Bureau also said it will advance government governance toward a new paradigm of data empowerment, intelligent prediction, precision and human-machine collaboration.
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Shanghai Builds AI Highland as Tax Authority Empowers Services with Digital Intelligence
At the opening of the 2026 World AI Conference, AI development drew wide attention in Shanghai. In 2025, the city's 394 large-scale AI firms generated over 637 billion yuan in industrial scale, up 39.5% year on year, becoming a new growth driver for GDP; 169 large models have been filed, and AI manufacturing output rose 19.2% in Q1 2026 alone. Cheng Junfeng, head of the Shanghai tax authority, said the tax department will deepen reform and innovation, precisely implement tax and fee policies across the whole innovation chain, improve the city's industrial tax-preference guidance, continue optimizing mechanisms such as no-application-needed benefits and policy-finds-people, and empower tax and fee services with digital intelligence to resolve tax-related bottlenecks for tech firms and attract talent with a first-class tax business environment.
2026-10-02