Shanghai is expanding overseas access to computing power and foundational artificial intelligence models to boost the city's trade in services, with a new plan setting a goal of increasing the sector's scale to more than $300 billion by 2030. 上海正面向海外开放算力以及基础人工智能模型资源,以此拉动本市服务贸易;一份全新规划定下目标:2030年前服务贸易规模突破3000亿美元。 Experts said that the move would help make AI a new growth driver and strengthen the city's role as a global trade in services hub. 专家表示,该举措能够促使人工智能成为全新增长引擎,并巩固上海全球服务贸易枢纽的地位。 On Monday, a plan to build Shanghai into a national demonstration zone for service trade innovation and development was unveiled. 本周一,上海建设国家服务贸易创新发展示范区的规划正式对外公布。 Jointly released by seven departments, including the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, the plan sets a goal of increasing the city's service trade volume to $270 billion by 2027 and surpassing $300 billion by 2030. 该规划由上海市商务委员会等七个部门联合印发;计划提出,2027年上海服务贸易总额达到2700亿美元,2030年突破3000亿美元。 The plan calls for the development of service trade related to the AI industry, attracting global companies and institutions to establish AI R&D centers, opensource platforms and joint laboratories in Shanghai, and building an open innovation ecosystem. 规划提出发展人工智能产业相关服务贸易,吸引海内外企业与机构在沪设立人工智能研发中心、开源平台以及联合实验室,搭建开放式创新生态体系。 Coordinated development 协同发展 Zhong Junhao, secretarygeneral of the Shanghai AI Industry Association, said that for the first time, the plan incorporates the coordinated development of the AI industry into the broader framework of a city's service trade development, marking the use of computing power as a new growth driver for the sector. 上海市人工智能行业协会秘书长钟俊浩称,这份规划首次将人工智能产业协同发展纳入全市服务贸易发展的整体框架,标志着算力正式成为服务贸易全新增长动力。 "Encouraging companies and institutions to establish AI R&D centers, opensource platforms and joint laboratories in Shanghai is essentially an openingup of both the import and international cooperation sides of trade in services," Zhong said. 钟俊浩表示:“鼓励各类企业、机构落地上海搭建人工智能研发中心、开源平台、联合实验室,本质上是服务贸易在进口领域和国际合作层面的双向对外开放。” By bringing talent, code, research facilities and opensource communities to Shanghai, he said the city can create a platform connecting international institutions, multinational R&D units and local innovation communities within the same network. 他谈到,通过集聚人才、程序代码、科研设施与开源社群,上海可打造一体化平台,连通国际机构、跨国企业研发部门以及本土创新社群。 On July 16, 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. Headquartered in Shanghai, the organization is officially positioned as an independent intergovernmental international body focusing on capacity building, alignment of rules and standards, application cooperation and global AI governance. 7月16日,29个国家于上海签署协议,成立世界人工智能合作组织。该组织总部落户上海,定位为独立的政府间国际机构,主攻能力建设、规则标准对接、应用合作以及全球人工智能治理。 The trade in services demonstration zone plan includes measures to accelerate headquarters development and explore governance, adding institutional support for Shanghai's international AI cooperation, Zhong said. 钟俊浩介绍,这份服务贸易示范区方案含有加快总部经济建设、探索新型治理模式的多项举措,为上海开展人工智能国际合作提供制度保障。 Complete ecosystem 完备产业生态 Addressing a news conference in July, Chen Jie, vicemayor of Shanghai, said, "Shanghai has now built a complete development ecosystem that integrates independent innovation, applicationdriven growth, open collaboration, ecological synergy and security governance." 上海市副市长陈杰于7月的新闻发布会上发言:“上海现已建成集自主创新、应用牵引增长、开放协作、生态协同、安全治理于一体的完整发展生态。” According to him, Shanghai's 394 AI enterprises above the designated size, each with an annual revenue of at least 20 million yuan ($2.96 million), saw their combined industry scale exceed 637 billion yuan in 2025, a yearonyear increase of 39.5 percent, making AI a new growth driver for the city's economy. 据其介绍,上海现有394家规模以上人工智能企业(年营收不低于2000万元,折合296万美元);2025年产业总规模突破6370亿元,同比上涨39.5%,人工智能已然成为上海经济全新增长引擎。 The plan outlines 27 key tasks across six areas, covering industrial and supply chain upgrading, innovation in new business models, stronger business competitiveness, more efficient supply, higherlevel openingup, and mechanisms to support both domestic and international development. 该规划从六大方向部署27项重点任务,涵盖产业链供应链升级、新业态模式创新、增强企业竞争力、优化供给效能、高水平对外开放、搭建兼顾国内外发展的保障机制。 Qi Xiaozhai, vicechairman of the Commerce Economy Association of China, said: "In the past, we placed greater emphasis on trade in goods than on trade in services, especially service exports. However, in recent years, service trade has grown much faster than goods trade. Last year, the value of service trade reached 8.08 trillion yuan, up 7.4 percent yearonyear, 3.6 percentage points higher than the growth rate of goods trade." 中国商业经济学会副会长齐晓斋表示:“过去我国重货物贸易、轻服务贸易,尤其忽视服务出口。但近些年服务贸易增速远超货物贸易;去年我国服务贸易总额达8.08万亿元,同比增长7.4%,增速比货物贸易高出3.6个百分点。” "Domestic consumption of services, including catering, entertainment and leisure, has also grown faster than the consumption of goods. Against this backdrop, China has developed new advantages in service trade, particularly in emerging digital technologies such as AI, big data, cloud computing and blockchain," Qi added. 齐晓斋补充道:“餐饮、文娱休闲等国内服务消费增速同样高于商品消费。在此背景之下,我国服务贸易培育出新优势,尤其在人工智能、大数据、云计算、区块链等新兴数字技术领域。” By 2035, China aims to establish around 35 demonstration zones with leading service trade scale, concentrated highend resources, strong innovation capabilities and significant regional influence, he said. 他称,我国计划至2035年建成大约35处服务贸易示范区;示范区需要做到贸易规模领先、高端资源集聚、创新能力出众、区域辐射影响力强劲。 The country will foster a number of internationally competitive service export enterprises and key service industry clusters, while forming a development pattern in which service trade, investment, consumption and industries are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, he added. 他还提到,国家将培育一批具备国际竞争力的服务出口企业以及重点服务业产业集群,促成服务贸易、投资、消费、实体经济互联互通、相辅相成的发展格局。 foundational /faʊnˈdeɪʃənl/基础的;根基性的 intergovernmental /ˌɪntəɡʌvənˈmentl/政府间的 cluster /ˈklʌstə(r)/产业集群,集聚片区