BEIJING, March 24 (Reuters) - Tesla said on

Monday it would release its smart driving-assistance feature in

China after completing regulatory approval, following complaints

that a limited-time free trial of its Full Self-Driving service

had been temporarily paused.

"All parties are actively advancing the relevant process and

we will push it to you as soon as it is ready. We are also

looking forward to it, please wait patiently," Tesla's customer

support said on social media platform Weibo.

The message was posted as a comment under a feed of Tesla

vice president Grace Tao's Weibo account.

The company said last Monday that it would launch the free

trial of its FSD service in China between March 17 and April 16.

FSD is a suite of driving-assistance technologies developed

with generative artificial intelligence to cope with more

complicated traffic conditions.

Tesla is aiming for a full roll out of FSD this year, and is

working with Chinese tech giant Baidu ( BIDU ) to improve the

performance of the system, Reuters previously reported.

Tesla has offered such trials in the United States, where

its FSD system does not require navigation maps to be accurate

or up-to-date because local training of the AI helps the

technology drive better.

But in China, Tesla has been unable to train the system with

data from its 2 million EVs because of the country's data laws.

In late February, China's industry ministry issued new rules

requiring autonomous driving-related over-the-air software

upgrades to be subject to regulatory approval.