Beijing Fengtai District adopts \"Several Measures\" subsidy package for AI industry integration

Mechanism

District-level implementation of Beijing's national "AI+" initiative, issued by Fengtai's district-level science and technology bureau (Fengkexinfa [2025] No. 7, dated 2025-10-30; publicly posted to the district government portal 2026-01-21). It bundles ten distinct subsidy tracks rather than a single fund, consistent with the pattern already seen across China's late-2025 wave of province/city/district AI industrial notices (Fujian, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou Huadu, Beijing BDA already filed in the register):

• Compute access: 20% cost-share (cap RMB 2,000,000) on

computing-power purchase/rental for AI "partner plan" enterprises doing large-model R&D/training; 30% cost-share (cap RMB 3,000,000, 3-year window) for "industrial intelligence" enterprises specifically.

• Model development: one-time grants up to RMB 500,000 for compliant

large models; up to RMB 600,000 for industrial-application models.

• Data: RMB 100,000-2,000,000 for dataset construction, data-asset

registration, and trusted data-space participation.

• Technical R&D: up to RMB 2,000,000 for collaborative R&D and

equipment-development projects.

• Enterprise growth tiers: RMB 100,000 for firms crossing RMB 1

billion revenue, with additional per-tier increments for industrial AI firms.

• Application demonstrations: up to RMB 3,000,000 for smart-agent

competitions; RMB 200,000 for industrial-application projects.

• Platform/space: up to RMB 5,000,000 for shared technology-service

platforms; up to RMB 10,000,000 for AI industrial parks; RMB 500,000 for incubators.

• Investment and talent: up to RMB 1,000,000 for fund managers

directing capital into AI, plus talent-recruitment and educational- partnership support.

Severity is set low (2/5) and severity_basis: quant on the same logic used for the parallel Fujian filing: per-firm/per-project caps are modest relative to national flagship funds (compare 2024-05-24 China Big Fund III), and this reads as a district-level "keep pace with the AI+ wave" package rather than a strategic national-scale intervention. GTA rates the underlying state act "certainly harmful" (Red) as a trade-distorting subsidy.

Downstream implications

• Extends the province/city/district tier of China's AI industrial-policy

stack to a second Beijing sub-district body (Fengtai, alongside Beijing BDA and Dongcheng already filed), reinforcing the breadth-of-rollout signal for the "AI+" national directive down to district level.

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

classified as general state aid to domestic and foreign-invested firms operating in Fengtai, not an explicit local-content requirement.

Open questions

• Total district budget envelope for the package was not disclosed in the

notice as fetched — only per-firm/per-project caps. Watch for a Fengtai finance-bureau budget breakdown if published.

• GTA lists an "implemented" (announced) date of 2025-10-30 but the notice

was not publicly posted to the district portal until 2026-01-21 — consistent with China's pattern of internal-first policy issuance followed by delayed public gazetting; no substantive discrepancy found between the two dates beyond publication lag.