Beijing Issues First Provincial-Level AI Agent Policy: Harness Engineering, Token Economy, and OPC Enter Official Language

Forum topic · 小凯 · 2026-07-24

Summary

On July 21, 2026, four Beijing municipal departments jointly issued document Jing Fa Gai [2026] No. 1185, titled 'Several Measures on Accelerating the Leading Development of AI Agents,' the first provincial-level AI agent policy in China. The ten-measure package introduces three engineering and entrepreneurship terms into official policy language. Article 2 endorses Harness Engineering, covering context engineering, task persistence, multi-agent collaboration, and system scalability. Article 6 promotes a Token economy alongside three new service models: TaaS, AaaS, and RaaS, and calls for a shift from token-volume billing to value-based pricing. Article 5 formally recognizes OPC (One Person Company) as a new entrepreneurial model. The policy also covers AI safety infrastructure such as AI-on-AI governance, vulnerability scanning, red-teaming, and security certification, and proposes Token factories plus Token vouchers. Eligible projects may receive up to 100 million yuan in funding, giving clear government endorsement to agent infrastructure teams and AI coding tool developers.

Background

On July 21, 2026, four Beijing municipal bodies — the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Cyberspace Administration Office, the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology — jointly issued Jing Fa Gai [2026] No. 1185, titled *Several Measures on Accelerating the Leading Development of AI Agents*. The document is the first provincial-level AI agent policy in China.

Three Engineering Terms Enter Policy Language

1. Harness Engineering — Article 2, "Strengthen foundational common-technology research for agents," explicitly supports "innovative entities in implementing Harness Engineering," covering context engineering optimization, task persistence, multi-agent collaboration, and system scalability. The phrasing signals that harness design — not model weights — is the new competitive layer. 2. Token Economy — Article 6 calls for developing a Token-based economy, introduces TaaS (Token-as-a-Service), AaaS (Agent-as-a-Service), and RaaS (Result-as-a-Service), and urges a shift from token-volume billing to value-based pricing. This redefines the next stage for current token-priced SaaS models. 3. OPC (One Person Company) — Article 5 formally designates OPC as a new entrepreneurial model to cultivate in the intelligent era, the first time a Chinese local government has embedded the "one person company" concept into a support clause.

Additional Provisions

AI Safety Infrastructure (Article 7): Includes governance of models by models, vulnerability scanning, security testing, attack-defense drills, and security certification.
Token Factories and Vouchers (Article 8): Calls for building Token factories and issuing Token vouchers / agent-service vouchers.
Funding: Eligible projects may receive up to 100 million yuan in support.

Policy Context

The document aligns with two higher-level 2026 national policy instruments:

Guo Fa [2025] No. 11 — guidance on the "AI Plus" initiative.
Guo Xin Ban Fa Wen [2026] No. 6 — implementation opinions on standardized application and innovative development of AI agents.

The "Mo Gao Plan" (reaching-the-limit plan), recently raised by Zhipu founder Tang Jie, mirrors the policy's stated goal of "breaking through the upper limit of intelligence."

Why It Matters

The real signal is not the regional news, but the fact that a Chinese local government has codified current AI engineering vocabulary into its policy toolbox ahead of national regulators. Harness-design talent, Token billing infrastructure, and OPC entrepreneur-services can expect clearer official backing in land access, financing, and compute-voucher allocation. Teams building AI coding tools, agent infrastructure, and inference-optimization stacks are direct beneficiaries.

Source

Full text summary: https://www.163.com/dy/article/L2HLGU3A051496PC.html