Beijing Issues 15th Five-Year Digital Plan, Deepening Jing-Jin-Ji Computing and Data-Sharing Coordination

The plan's emphasis on cross-regional rule mutual recognition and factor flows is the substantive shift: it treats data and computing capacity as tradable interprovincial inputs rather than local assets, which matters for operators already building capacity in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. The simultaneous call for filing review and security assessment on government large-model deployments signals that compliance capacity, not compute, may be the binding constraint on public-sector AI adoption. Whether the Yangtze River Delta and Greater Bay Area links move from intent to actual mutual recognition arrangements is the open question.