Source: Xinhua

BEIJING, May 27 -- Chinese courts will refine judicial rules governing artificial intelligence (AI) and data property rights over the next five years, a senior judge from the Supreme People's Court said. Liu Guixiang, a senior member of the adjudicatory committee of the Supreme People's Court, said courts will step up research and draft new judicial guidelines covering emerging industries during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030). Relevant rules will target new business forms in the digital economy and aim to improve adjudication standards in areas including data rights, data transactions and AI-generated content. The initiative is intended to promote deeper integration between digital technologies and the real economy and to strengthen foundational systems treating data as a factor of production. The 15th Five-Year Plan sets targets to advance the Digital China initiative, including ensuring efficient supply of computing power, algorithms and data to foster a healthy, well-regulated development ecosystem.

Teng Jiguo, deputy secretary-general of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said China will step up legislation in key, emerging and foreign-related areas and improve a fast-response legislative mechanism to address issues of urgent public concern and practical necessity. Vice Minister of Justice Wu Zeng said the ministry will draft regulations to build a unified national market and will use legal and regulatory measures to remove bottlenecks and barriers hindering market development. Wu added that comprehensive legislative work to support the healthy development of AI and legislation related to the low-altitude economy will be accelerated. The statements were made at a State Council Information Office press briefing in Beijing on May 27, 2026. No specific enacted laws or finalized judicial texts were detailed in the reported remarks.