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The Huadu District Government Office in Guangzhou (Guangdong Province) issued "Measures for Promoting High-Quality Development of New Energy and Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industries" (花府办规〔2025〕11号), effective upon issuance on 31 December 2025 for a two-year term. The package covers R&D-platform grants (up to RMB 100m per enterprise), model-promotion subsidies (up to RMB 50m per model), an L4+ autonomous-vehicle fleet-scale bonus (up to RMB 20m per enterprise), core-component investment rebates (1% of qualifying investment ≥RMB 50m, capped at RMB 300m), battery-production scale bonuses (up to RMB 60m for 5GWh+ output), at least RMB 200m for a "vehicle-road-cloud" integrated pilot zone (200+ autonomous vehicles, ~2,000 OBU retrofits), per-enterprise autonomous-fleet-operation subsidies (up to RMB 200m for qualifying passenger/cargo fleets), preferential industrial-land pricing (minimum 70% of benchmark rate), and facility-cost subsidies (up to RMB 150m/year for 3-5 years). It is a sub-provincial, district-level instrument implementing national NEV industrial-policy and the 2025-2026 Automobile Industry Stabilization and Growth Work Plan at the local level.

The UK government confirmed Wylfa on Anglesey, North Wales as the site for the country's first government-backed small modular reactor (SMR) power station, committing over GBP 2.5 billion (~USD 3.3bn) to the programme via state-owned developer Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N). GBE-N named Rolls-Royce SMR as preferred bidder, with an initial three-reactor deployment (scope for five more) targeting grid connection by the mid-2030s and up to 1.5GW of capacity — enough to power roughly three million homes. Site work is set to begin in 2026, subject to final government approvals and contract signature.

The European Commission granted EUR 11.3 million (~USD 13.3 million) to Bouygues Telecom SA for the "5mart Ho5pital" project, which installs a private/dedicated 5G network at the University Hospital Centre (CHU) of Bordeaux, France. The award was made under the Commission's Fourth CEF-Digital Call selection decision, formally adopted 3 November 2025 (56 projects, up to EUR 389 million combined, spanning submarine/ terrestrial backbone cables, 5G corridor and vertical-application pilots, and EuroQCI quantum-communication infrastructure), publicly announced by HaDEA on 20 November 2025.

The European Commission's Fourth CEF-Digital Call selection decision (adopted 3 November 2025, publicly announced by HaDEA on 20 November 2025) awarded EUR 10,137,584 (~USD 11.8 million) to "Multimodal-5G," a project coordinated by Wings ICT Solutions Technologies AE (Greece) to deploy 5G infrastructure along the GR-BG Corridor connecting Greece and Bulgaria for cross-border connected-transport and logistics use cases. The grant is one of six "5G Corridors" awards (EUR 53 million combined) under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital programme, administered by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA).

The European Commission granted EUR 20 million (~USD 23.6 million) to Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. for the GreenMed subsea cable system under the EU's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital programme. GreenMed is a next-generation submarine cable crossing the Adriatic Sea to connect Italy with the Balkans and the Central-Eastern Mediterranean (with a later-announced extension via Jordan toward the Levant/Asia), engineered by Alcatel Submarine Networks and installed by Elettra Tlc. The award was part of the Commission's Fourth CEF-Digital Call selection decision, formally adopted 3 November 2025 (56 projects, up to EUR 389 million, spanning submarine/terrestrial backbone cables, 5G corridor pilots and EuroQCI quantum-communication infrastructure), publicly announced by HaDEA on 20 November 2025.

The Legislative Yuan of Taiwan (ROC) passed amendments to Article 10-1 of the Statute for Industrial Innovation (產業創新條例) on third reading on 18 April 2025, promulgated by Presidential Decree on 7 May 2025 and effective for qualifying expenditures incurred from 1 January 2025. The amendment expands the scope of the existing Article 10-1 investment tax credit — previously covering hardware, software, technology, or technical services for smart machinery, 5G network deployment, and cybersecurity — to additionally cover (i) AI products or services and (ii) energy-conservation and carbon-reduction initiatives. The maximum eligible expenditure cap per company per taxable year is doubled from NT$1bn to NT$2bn, and the implementation period is extended through 31 December 2029. Secondary legislation operationalising the amended categories was jointly issued by MOEA and MOF on 27 November 2025 as the "Regulations Governing Tax Credits Claimed for Investments in Smart Machinery, 5G Networks, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Products or Services, and Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction." This is Taiwan's first AI-and-green-tech investment tax credit mechanism in the general-industrial framework, distinct from Article 10-2 (the chip-specific R&D + advanced-equipment credit, "Taiwan Chips Act").

The Legislative Yuan of Taiwan (ROC) passed amendments to Articles 10-2 and 72 of the Statute for Industrial Innovation ("產業創新條例") on third reading on 7 January 2023. The amendment, internationally termed the "Taiwan Chips Act," is implemented from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2029. Article 10-2 grants Taiwan-registered companies that occupy key positions in international supply chains a 25% investment tax credit on qualifying forward-looking innovative R&D expenditure (capped at 30% of the year's profit-seeking enterprise income tax payable), plus a 5% credit on the purchase of brand-new machinery or equipment used in own-account advanced manufacturing processes (also capped at 30%). Eligibility thresholds set by the Ministry of Finance require annual R&D spend of at least NT$6bn, R&D intensity (R&D / net operating revenue) of at least 6%, and an effective tax rate of at least 15% (12% for FY2023 only); the 5% equipment credit additionally requires equipment expenditure of at least NT$10bn. The measure is Taiwan's principal supply- side response to the US CHIPS Act, the EU Chips Act, the K-Chips Act, and Japan's METI subsidy programme, and is designed to retain TSMC, MediaTek, and other leading-edge silicon investment onshore as overseas subsidies pull capacity to Arizona, Kumamoto, Dresden, and elsewhere.