AI Makes the "One-Person Company" a Reality: Lingang Holds Legislative Innovation Seminar on Super Individuals (OPC)

In the past two years, the super-individual one-person company (OPC) model has continued to gain popularity, and market demand has grown rapidly. In the Lin-gang Special Area, a team of only three core members used AI to complete processes such as Japanese market research, marketing content generation, and influencer screening. Four months after starting the business, the home furnishing and textile products it operates topped the relevant category on Japan's TikTok, with single-quarter sales exceeding 100 million yen. At the legislative innovation seminar on "Institutional Construction and Ecosystem Empowerment for Super Individuals (OPC)" held in the Lin-gang Special Area on October 20, Fu Qiang, deputy director of Shanghai Duan & Duan (Lin-gang Special Area) Law Firm, told the entrepreneurial story of a local OPC, Shanghai Humi Technology. "AI brings efficiency, but it does not automatically bring asset monetization, market credit, or compliance capabilities. Our research shows that three types of bottlenecks—difficulty in realizing asset value, lack of a stable collaboration mechanism, and high compliance costs—run through the entire chain of OPC production and operation." When AI makes the "one-person company" a reality, can institutional supply keep pace? This legislative innovation seminar was led by the grassroots legislative contact point of the Nanhui New Town People's Congress and brought together government departments, park operators, entrepreneurs, legal experts, and factor trading platforms to discuss the institutional construction and ecosystem empowerment of super individuals (OPC). "The super-individual economy is not simply the 'digital upgrading of self-employed businesses,' but a profound change in the organization of production in the digital age. Whether institutional supply can keep pace directly affects the release of innovation and entrepreneurship vitality and the cultivation of new quality productive forces," said Lin Yi, a member of the Party Working Committee of the Lin-gang Special Area and full-time deputy director of the Administrative Committee. Lin-gang will build full-cycle institutional support for new types of entrepreneurial entities and construct an institutional system that enables super individuals to "thrive, gather together, and stay secure," creating a development pattern led by standards, driven by innovation, safe and controllable, and supported by a complete rule of law, so as to provide Shanghai and the whole country with a replicable and promotable "Lin-gang solution." Luo Yijun, head of operations at the Lin-gang Group's "Zero-Boundary Cube," combined the operating practices of the first batch of OPC communities to introduce the park's transformation path from "space landlord" to "resource partner." He believes that what super-individual entrepreneurs need is not just office space, but entrepreneurial partners who can connect them to the market, solve compliance issues, and link resources—this is also the core value of the Lin-gang OPC community. In the exchange and discussion session, all parties—including OPC communities, entrepreneurs, service providers, and platforms—put their concerns on the table. Entrepreneurs worry about disputes over ownership of accounts, works, and data, and hope that rights confirmation will fit actual business operations; platforms propose bundling services such as business registration, finance and taxation, computing power, and orders to enable super individuals to "move in with their bags packed and take orders with their bags packed"; professional institutions call for high-frequency compliance services to be standardized and made widely accessible; factor platforms focus on registration, evaluation, circulation, and cross-border rules after rights confirmation. In response, relevant government departments and professionals responded on site. A relevant person in charge of the Data Office of the Lin-gang Special Area Administrative Committee said that the core of OPC does not lie in the number of practitioners; the key is to use AI tools to reduce costs and improve efficiency and to have a mature business model and stable orders. Relying on the institutional advantages of cross-border data and the foundation of offshore data processing, the special area combines local industries to create distinctive tracks and tap segmented scenarios, resolves common issues such as copyright and compliance through market-based and platform-based paths, and promotes the integrated implementation of government services. Lin Qi, deputy director of the Second Legislative Division of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, said that "super individuals" are a new type of market entity with strong Chinese characteristics. The institutional needs of OPC should focus on core propositions such as commercial registration and adaptive adjustments to the capital contribution system, as well as the functional upgrading of communities from commercial ties to institutional compliance aggregation platforms. Fu Qiang, targeting the bottlenecks, proposed three aspects of problem-solving thinking and institutional supply: Lin-gang should use real scenarios to form evaluable institutional samples; Shanghai should coordinate cross-departmental alignment of common rules, such as linking digital product registration with pledge financing and the quality and safety standards of AI professional services; and at the national level, respond to foundational institutional issues such as data rights guarantees, liability for AI agent behavior, and cross-border data, so that the super-individual economy can develop healthily in an institutional environment that is trustworthy, connectable, and protectable.