Heilongjiang Province issues 20-measure support package for high-end intelligent agricultural machinery industry

Mechanism

Hei Zheng Ban Gui [2025] No. 5 bundles 20 numbered measures across four areas — R&D/manufacturing/application integration, enterprise expansion and upgrading, quality and standards, and resource/element support — aimed at building Heilongjiang into a national pilot zone for large-horsepower, high-end intelligent agricultural machinery R&D, manufacture, and deployment (echoing the province's 2025 Document No. 1 priority on agri-machinery upgrading and old-equipment scrap-and-renew). Disclosed quantitative caps include: R&D subsidies for enterprises with R&D spend above RMB 500,000, split 1:1 between provincial and municipal budgets with a 50% top-up for intelligent-machinery firms specifically; up to 30% of project investment (capped at RMB 50 million) for core-technology and public-service-platform projects exceeding RMB 50 million in total investment; one-time RMB 1 million awards for recognized demonstration projects in AI agriculture, low-altitude economy, and agricultural robotics; 5% annual sales-revenue rebates (capped at RMB 10 million per firm) for high-value, high-tech machinery products; insurance-premium compensation up to 80% of premiums paid (capped at RMB 5 million/year per firm); interest-rate subsidies on project loans up to RMB 25 million; and 10% one-time subsidies for digital-workshop/smart-factory conversion. Severity is anchored on the RMB 50 million per-project cap for core-technology projects, the largest single disclosed quantum in the package.

Downstream implications

• Sits alongside the pre-existing national and provincial agri-machinery

purchase-subsidy schemes (e.g. Heilongjiang's 2024-2026 农机购置与应用 补贴 program) as a manufacturing-side complement to those demand-side purchase subsidies — this package targets domestic producers rather than farmer-purchasers.

• Part of a broader 2025 Heilongjiang push (Document No. 1) to position the

province as the lead R&D/manufacture/deployment zone for large-horsepower smart agricultural machinery, relevant to tractor and combine-harvester supply chains and to foreign equipment makers (e.g. John Deere, CNH, Kubota) competing for share in China's largest grain-producing province.

• No specific companies are named as beneficiaries in the notice itself;

eligibility is defined by activity (agri-machinery R&D/manufacture) not by named recipient.

Open questions

• The notice discloses no aggregate provincial budget figure across all 20

measures — only per-measure caps — so the total fiscal commitment is unknown.

• Whether foreign-invested agri-machinery manufacturers operating in

Heilongjiang are eligible on the same terms as domestic firms is not addressed in the accessible summary; the full text (paywalled on GTA, behind a "sign in" gate) may clarify eligibility scope.