Beijing issues \"Several Measures\" subsidy package for Shijingshan's Future Digital Space Innovation Pilot Zone

Mechanism

District-level implementation of Beijing's broader "future industries" and AI-hub strategy, layered on top of Shijingshan district's existing sci-fi and AI large-model industrial push (the district's sci-fi-industry revenue reached RMB 15.3bn in 2024 with 200+ firms, roughly a third of Beijing's total). The notice bundles ten subsidy tracks under a "2+3+5" framework (two anchor zones, three support pillars, five measure categories), consistent with the pattern already seen across China's late-2025 wave of province/city/district industrial-policy notices (Fengtai AI, Beijing BDA, Fujian AI, Dongcheng tech-innovation, all already filed in the register):

• Frontier-tech demonstration scenarios: up to 30% of certified total

investment, capped at RMB 10,000,000, for "first-use/first-trial" innovative experience scenarios and technology-application projects; for actual investment above RMB 5,000,000, up to 30% capped at RMB 3,000,000.

• Premium digital content: RMB 300,000 for formally published original

games; RMB 500,000-2,000,000 for works winning international or domestic industry awards.

• Key laboratories: up to RMB 5,000,000/year operating-cost support and

up to 4,000 sqm of rent discount, for a maximum of 3 consecutive years, for labs that actually locate within the pilot zone.

• Industry-chain innovation consortia: up to RMB 20,000,000/year, RMB

50,000,000 cumulative over 3 years, for lead firms/talent building cross-firm innovation consortia.

• Incubators: up to RMB 20,000,000 over a maximum of 3 years for

benchmark-grade incubators.

• Industry fund co-investment: minimum ticket sizes of RMB 1,000,000

(seed), RMB 5,000,000 (angel), and RMB 10,000,000 (Series A) via an associated industry investment fund.

The pilot zone's core area is the north campus of the former Shougang (Capital Steel) works — the same brownfield site already redeveloped for Winter Olympics venues — with the Jin'anqiao AI large-model industry cluster serving as the innovation-coordination area.

Severity is set low (2/5) and severity_basis: quant on the same logic used for the parallel Fengtai/BDA filings: per-project/per-firm caps (RMB 10-50m) are modest relative to national flagship funds (compare 2024-05-24 China Big Fund III), and this reads as a district-level zone-building package targeting gaming/VR/sci-fi digital content and AI, not a strategic-materials or trade-control measure. GTA rates the underlying state act "certainly harmful" (Red) as a trade-distorting subsidy; GTA splits this single measure across multiple intervention records by affected HS product line (games and toys; recorded/blank media; audio-video equipment) — this filing covers the measure as a whole.

Downstream implications

• Extends the district-tier "AI+"/future-industries industrial-policy

stack to a fourth Beijing sub-district body (Shijingshan, alongside Fengtai, BDA, and Dongcheng already filed), this time targeting gaming/digital-content and VR/AI experience industries specifically rather than pure compute/model development.

• No evidence found of foreign-firm exclusion in eligibility criteria —

reads as general state aid available to firms locating within the designated pilot zone, not an explicit local-content requirement.

Open questions

• Total municipal/district budget envelope for the package was not

disclosed — only per-project/per-firm caps. Watch for a Shijingshan district finance-bureau budget breakdown if published.

• GTA lists an announced/implemented date of 2025-10-23, three days before

the notice's public posting date (2025-10-27) on the municipal S&T commission portal — consistent with China's pattern of internal-first policy issuance followed by delayed public gazetting.