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Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations
The Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations, passed by the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress in December 2024 and effective 1 April 2025, providing a city-wide Level 3-plus legal framework for autonomous-vehicle road testing, demonstration, and commercial operation (superseding the prior demonstration-zone-only basis; Beijing's high-level autonomous-driving demonstration zone launched 2020 and granted its first fully driverless permits in 2023). Operates within China's national ICV framework (see china-av-framework).
Jurisdiction: China/Beijing, China · Effective 2025-04-01
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /regulations/china-beijing-av.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/regulations/6d9a311f-efbc-48a8-b90c-25cae849cbc4
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Sources (2)
Status history
- In effect · 2025-04-01 · editor:DEPLOY content-agent (Sprint 5c-2 Asia regs)
Beijing AV Regulations passed Dec 2024, effective Apr 1, 2025; city-wide L3+ AV framework.
Common questions
- What does Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations cover?
- The Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations, passed by the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress in December 2024 and effective 1 April 2025, providing a city-wide Level 3-plus legal framework for autonomous-vehicle road testing, demonstration, and commercial operation (superseding the prior demonstration-zone-only basis; Beijing's high-level autonomous-driving demonstration zone launched 2020 and granted its first fully driverless permits in 2023). Operates within China's national ICV framework (see china-av-framework).
- Where does Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations apply?
- Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations is recorded as a other applying in Beijing, China on the DEPLOY registry.
- When did Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations take effect?
- Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations is recorded as effective April 1, 2025 on the DEPLOY registry.
- Is Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations still in effect?
- Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations is currently in effect and applies to covered operators in the named jurisdiction.
- What types of robots does Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations apply to?
- Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations is recorded as applying to autonomous vehicles on the DEPLOY registry.
- Which robot models on the DEPLOY registry fall under Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations?
- 8 robot models on the DEPLOY registry match the form-factor scope of Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations: Apollo RT6, Argo AI Self-Driving System, Aurora Driver, AutoX RoboTaxi and 4 others. Form-factor scope match does not by itself establish compliance status; review the underlying primary sources for each operator.
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-05-31
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-05-31
Architectural position
Cohort: av
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Beijing Autonomous Vehicle Regulations.Canonical ID 6d9a311f-efbc-48a8-b90c-25cae849cbc4