China announces $165M brain science fund at Shenzhen BCI Expo — targeting globally competitive BCI by 2030
Summary
At the 2025 Shenzhen BCI and Human-Computer Interaction Expo in December, China announced an 11.6 billion yuan ($165M) brain science fund to support BCI companies from research through commercialization. Combined with a national roadmap released in August 2025 by China's industry ministry and six other agencies — targeting technical milestones by 2027, industry standards, and a full supply chain by 2030 — China is executing the most coordinated national BCI strategy in the world.
Why it matters
China's $165M dedicated brain science fund plus national roadmap targeting commercial BCI by 2030 is the most significant government BCI investment outside the US. With Guangdong hosting 80 key BCI companies alone, China has already built the industrial density needed to execute on this roadmap — this is not aspirational policy but capital deployment into an existing ecosystem.
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