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On 24 December 2025 the Minister of Science and Technology signed Decision No. 4386/QĐ-BKHCN defining the functions, tasks, and organisational structure of the Vietnam National Multi-Project Wafer Coordination Centre (VNMPW/CC). The Centre sits under MOST's Authority of Information Technology Industry and acts as a coordinating hub between domestic chip-design firms, research institutes, and domestic / foreign fabrication and packaging partners. It provides shared EDA software access, IP libraries, technical design verification, performance measurement, training programmes, and pilot-production (MPW shuttle) support — the first concrete institutional node operationalising Vietnam's 2024 semiconductor strategy (Decision 1018/QĐ-TTg).

Vietnam's 15th National Assembly adopted the Law on Investment 2025 (Law No. 143/2025/QH15) at its 10th session on 11 December 2025, effective 1 March 2026. The law replaces the 2020 Law on Investment (Law 61/2020/QH14) as the umbrella FDI framework. Article 19 lets foreign investors establish enterprises in Vietnam without a prior investment project, unlocking holding-company / regional-headquarters structures. A fast-track Special Investment Procedure (SIP) covers industrial parks, export-processing zones, hi-tech parks, concentrated digital-technology zones, free-trade zones, international financial centres and economic-zone functional areas, targeting semiconductor, data-centre and 5G/digital-infrastructure capex. Appendix IV abolishes 38 conditional business sectors and adjusts 20 others (from 1 July 2026 only 199 conditional sectors remain). Operationalised by Decree 96/2026/ND-CP (issued and effective 31 March 2026) and Decree 103/2026/ND-CP for outbound investment.

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs International Trade Administration (MOEA-ITA) published a draft amendment to the Strategic High-Tech Commodities (SHTC) export control lists on 18 November 2025, subject to a 60-day public-preview period, adding 18 items in three new categories — advanced 3D printing equipment (metal-powder-bed- fusion, laser-sintering, electron-beam-melting capable systems), advanced semiconductor equipment (CMOS chips, low-temperature cryogenic cooling, scanning electron microscope equipment, cryogenic wafer probers), and quantum computers (general-purpose programmable quantum computing systems). Exporters must obtain MOEA-ITA prior approval before shipment; permits will be issued only after confirming goods will not be used in weapons-of-mass-destruction programmes.

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs International Trade Administration (MOEA-ITA) issued a pre-notice (17 November 2025, doc. 經授貿字第 11450120760號) proposing amendments to the "Dual-Use Goods and Technology Export Control List" and the "General Military Goods List" under the Strategic High-Tech Commodities (SHTC) regime, adding or reclassifying items in the basic-inorganic-chemicals, chemical-products, and engines/turbines categories to align with Wassenaar Arrangement list updates. Following the standard 60-day public-comment period, MOEA-ITA published the finalised amendment on 11 February 2026 (doc. 經貿字第 11550200140號), effective immediately, requiring exporters of the newly listed dual-use and military goods to obtain prior export licences regardless of destination.

On 12 November 2025 Beijing's Dongcheng District (via the Zhongguancun Science Park Dongcheng Zone Management Committee and the district Science and Technology Commission) issued Notice 东城园文〔2025〕12号, "Several Measures of Beijing Dongcheng District on Promoting Science and Technology Innovation Development," effective 12 December 2025 through 31 December 2028. The package tiers cash grants by milestone: up to RMB 100,000 for first-time high-tech-enterprise certification, RMB 1 million for first-to-market new technology/products, RMB 10 million for incubator and specialised industrial-park upgrades, and up to RMB 30 million for "chain-leader" enterprises or innovation-driving market entities judged to have significant regional radiating/spillover effect. Eligible sectors span new-generation information technology, cultural technology, pharmaceuticals and health, intelligent manufacturing, new materials, and green energy/environmental protection.

Russia's federal Industry Development Fund (FRP) disclosed a RUB 950 million (approx. USD 12 million) concessional loan under its "Development Projects" programme to biopharmaceutical company Nanolek LLC, financing purchase of high-tech equipment for Russia's first domestic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine production line. The facility, part of a RUB 7.5 billion total investment in the Orichevsky District of Kirov Region, opened 25-29 October 2025 and produces the "Tsegardeks" vaccine at an initial capacity of over 600,000 doses per year, rising to 3-3.5 million doses annually by 2027 with a planned second production line.

Russia's federal Industry Development Fund (FRP) disclosed a RUB 930 million (approx. USD 11.4 million) concessional loan to ООО "ПК "Промтрактор" (Promtraktor Production Company LLC, part of Kontsern Traktornye Zavody) in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, funding purchase of 98 units of high-tech casting and machining equipment as part of a RUB 1.2 billion total modernisation. The loan financed serial production of two new heavy-bulldozer models, CHETRA T30 (30-tonne class) and CHETRA T45 (45-tonne class, billed as Russia's most powerful serial-production bulldozer), which entered series production 23 October 2025. Resulting capacity for bulldozer, pipe-layer and front-end-loader components rose 25% to 13,700 units per year, with management targeting a rise in CHETRA's domestic heavy-bulldozer market share from ~30% to 70%, partially displacing Western imports (e.g. Caterpillar, Komatsu) that exited the Russian market after 2022.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-AI" call, a USD 1.6 billion support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology- investment-programme`), targeting large-scale IT investments delivering AI services, managed/self-service cloud offerings, and AI-hardware buildouts of at least USD 100 million. The call bundles multiple instruments — tax reduction up to 60%, capex grants up to 40% (with an additional up to 20% grant specifically for AI-hardware investment), concessional financing up to 70%, employment support, and market-development support up to 20% — and was announced alongside a parallel USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call, a USD 300 million "HIT-Quantum" call, and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call. Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır framed the combined package as designed to mobilise USD 10 billion in data-centre and AI investment by 2030, lifting national data-centre capacity from 250 MW to 1 GW.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-Data Centre" call, a USD 1.5 billion support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology-investment-programme`), targeting data-centre facilities of at least 30 MW IT capacity with at least 50% AI-compatible hardware and a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.4 or lower. The call was announced alongside three parallel HIT-30 sector calls — a USD 1.6 billion "HIT-AI" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-ai-cloud-infrastructure-call`), a USD 300 million "HIT-Quantum" call, and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call — and offers the same tax, grant, financing, employment, and market-development instrument stack used across the HIT-30 programme. Global Trade Alert logs this single government call as two separate "interventions" (tax/social insurance relief and unspecified state aid) under state act 95013.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-Industrial Robot" call, a USD 1 billion support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology-investment-programme`), targeting manufacturers that commit to a minimum annual production capacity of 5,000 industrial robots and localisation of critical components (servo motors, reducers/gearboxes, servo drives), plus supporting R&D-centre buildout. The call was announced alongside three parallel HIT-30 sector calls — a USD 1.6 billion "HIT-AI" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-ai-cloud-infrastructure-call`), a USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-data-centre-call`), and a USD 300 million "HIT-Quantum" call — and offers the same tax, grant, financing, employment, and market-development instrument stack used across the HIT-30 programme. Global Trade Alert logs this single government call as two separate "interventions" (state loan and tax/social-insurance relief) under state act 95018.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-Quantum" call, a USD 300 million support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology-investment-programme`), aimed at building high-capacity infrastructure for quantum computing services, a scalable quantum hardware/software ecosystem for research centres, universities and the private sector, and skilled-workforce development. The call was announced alongside three parallel HIT-30 sector calls — a USD 1.6 billion "HIT-AI" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-ai-cloud-infrastructure-call`), a USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-data-centre-call`), and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-industrial-robot-call`). Global Trade Alert logs this single government call as three separate "interventions" (financial grant, state loan, and tax/social-insurance relief) under state act 95017.

On 15 October 2025 the German Federal Cabinet adopted the Microelectronics Strategy of the Federal Government, jointly presented by the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE). The strategy is the first comprehensive cabinet-adopted German microelectronics policy framework in over a decade and operationalises Germany's contribution to the European Chips Act envelope. It is organised around three pillars — Research, Skilled Labour and Production — and creates a "Chips Office" to coordinate stakeholder interaction and implementation. It establishes a competence centre for chip design and a flagship "supercomputer in the car" project, and is framed as a key implementation instrument under the High-Tech Agenda Germany (HTAD) and as Germany's contribution to the September 29 2025 Semicon Declaration signed by all 27 EU member states calling for a revised EU Chips Act II.

Spain's Ministry of Industry and Tourism awarded InoBat (Slovak battery manufacturer, 25%-owned by China's Gotion High-Tech) a EUR 53.8 million grant plus a EUR 456,000 loan under the third call of PERTE VEC (Programa Estratégico para la Recuperación y Transformación Económica — Vehículo Eléctrico y Conectado), the battery-manufacturing tranche of Spain's EV supply-chain industrial-policy programme. The award, announced by President Pedro Sánchez on 8 September 2025, was to support a planned 32 GWh battery gigafactory in Valladolid (EUR 712m total project investment, 260 direct / ~500 indirect jobs, full capacity targeted for 2029). MINCOTUR later recorded InoBat's withdrawal of the award (~18 November 2025) after the Valladolid project was folded into a larger, Gotion-led initiative.

On 5 August 2025 the municipal government of Xianning (Hubei Province) launched the "Hubei-Xianning High-Tech Industry Regional Mother Fund" (湖北咸宁高新产业区域母基金) at a launch ceremony attended by a Hubei provincial Finance Department official and Xianning's executive vice mayor. The fund was jointly capitalised by the Hubei Provincial Government Guidance Fund, Changjiang Growth Capital, the Xianning Municipal Government Guidance Fund, Xianning Chengfa Group, and Xianning Gaotou Group at a total scale of CNY 3 billion (~USD 420 million), the first city-level regional mother fund set up under Hubei's provincial guidance-fund restructuring programme. It operates a "sub-fund + direct project investment" model and is projected to leverage CNY 15 billion in social capital toward Xianning's "5+5" modern industrial system (big health, electronic information, clean energy, and new materials, among other priority sectors). At launch it signed cooperation-intent agreements with 5 sub-funds (CNY 2 billion combined scale) and investment agreements with 5 enterprises (CNY 200 million combined).

The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone (BDA / Yizhuang) Management Committee issued Jingjiguanfa [2025] No. 14, "Several Measures on Accelerating 6G Technology and Industrial Innovation Development in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone," dated 2025-07-08 and effective 2025-07-09. The package funds the 6G stack end to end: up to RMB 5,000,000 start-up funding for provincial/municipal-level 6G laboratories, matching funds up to RMB 30,000,000 for enterprises undertaking national/municipal 6G research tasks, up to RMB 2,000,000 in rewards for accepted 3GPP standard proposals, up to RMB 1,000,000 for standard implementation, up to RMB 30,000,000/year (three-year cap) for test and verification platforms, up to RMB 5,000,000 for "first-order" product support, and testing vouchers of up to RMB 5,000,000 covering 50% of actual testing costs. The zone targets 50+ breakthrough 6G core technologies and standards, 20+ prototype devices, 10+ leading enterprises, 200+ national/municipal high-tech enterprises, and an RMB 50,000,000,000-scale industry cluster by 2030.

Hubei Province established a CNY 10 billion (~USD 1.4 billion) "Hubei Humanoid Robot Industry Investment Mother Fund," led by Changjiang Securities under the province's investment-guidance-fund system. The fund closed partnership registration and a CNY 5 billion first tranche, filed with the Asset Management Association of China, with the Hubei provincial guidance fund and Wuhan Industry Fund each committing 20% and Changjiang Securities and Hubei Science & Technology Investment Group each committing 30%. Capital is earmarked for lead humanoid-robot manufacturers and core-technology suppliers (components, brain-computer interfaces, control systems, model algorithms) as the fund's parent vehicle re-deploys a follow-on tranche via a Wuhan Investment Control Group / East Lake High-Tech Zone cooperation agreement signed 26 July 2025.

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs International Trade Administration (MOEA-ITA) amended the Strategic High-Tech Commodities (SHTC) export-control Entity List on 10 June 2025 (announced 15 June 2025) under Article 13 of the Trade Act, adding 601 new entities — including Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) plus 599 additional entities domiciled in China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar. Taiwanese exporters (TSMC, UMC, ASE, KYEC and downstream suppliers) must obtain pre-export government licences for direct or third-party shipments of any SHTC-listed item to the listed entities; the action expands Taiwan's total entity-list population to ~10,844 entities. Two follow-on amendments tightened the regime further: a +279-entity expansion on 18 September 2025 and an 18-item commodity-list expansion on 18 November 2025 covering advanced 3D printers, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, electron microscopes and quantum-computing hardware.

On 14 June 2025 Vietnam's 15th National Assembly adopted Law No. 71/2025/QH15 on the Digital Technology Industry (DTI Law) at its 9th session. The Law enters into force on 1 January 2026 (with certain provisions phased) and is the world's first standalone primary statute dedicated to the digital technology industry, covering digital-tech production and services, semiconductor manufacturing, artificial-intelligence systems, digital assets (legally recognised as property under the Civil Code), and Concentrated Digital Technology Zones. It codifies sector-specific incentives — multi-year corporate income tax reductions, R&D-cost deductions, preferential public procurement, five-year personal income tax exemption for high-quality digital professionals, five-year visa and work-permit exemptions for foreign experts, and 50% subsidy for SME advanced-technology acquisition — and sets headline targets of 150,000 digital-tech enterprises and USD 74bn digital-economy contribution by 2030/2035 (with USD 43bn / USD 74bn variants in different government summaries).

On 30 April 2025 the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government issued Yue Fu Ban [2025] No. 11, "Several Measures of Guangdong Province to Further Stimulate Market Entity Vitality and Accelerate the Construction of a Modern Industrial System," effective immediately through 31 December 2027. The package subsidizes bank-loan interest for manufacturing and high-tech enterprises at up to 35% of the loan rate, capped at RMB 2 billion in total annual subsidy volume and RMB 20 million per enterprise per year, alongside an expansion of government-backed financing-guarantee coverage to over RMB 10 billion annually. It also funds foreign-invested R&D centers (up to RMB 1 million, or RMB 5 million for multinational global R&D centers) and offers headquarters-relocation bonuses of up to RMB 8 million, with priority given to semiconductors, AI, robotics, biotechnology, quantum technology, commercial aerospace, and new-energy vehicles.

On 7 March 2025, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev reviewed and endorsed a three-year national programme to develop Uzbekistan's critical-minerals raw-material base, totalling USD 2.6 bn across 76 projects covering 28 rare-metal elements (tungsten, lithium, titanium, vanadium, molybdenum, magnesium, germanium, graphite, rare earths and others). The plan, presented by Minister of Mining Industry and Geology Bobur Islamov, structures the effort along a "raw materials → processing → science & technology → finished products" value chain, establishes technology parks in the Tashkent and Samarkand regions, and directs ministries to facilitate technology transfer, modern laboratories, and training centres. It is Uzbekistan's first programmatic critical-minerals push at this scale and the first Central-Asia upstream-capture filing in the IPTM register.

The Government of Karnataka, Department of Industries and Commerce, notified the Karnataka Industrial Policy 2025-30 in the Karnataka Gazette on 11 February 2025, with the policy taking legal effect from 8 February 2025 and valid for five years (or until superseded). It supersedes the prior Karnataka Industrial Policy 2020-25. The umbrella state-level framework targets ₹7.5 lakh crore (~USD 90 bn) in fresh investment and 20 lakh (2 million) new jobs by 2030, positioning Karnataka as a top-Asia destination for high-technology manufacturing — semiconductors, EVs, aerospace, defence, biotech, medical devices, textiles and renewable energy. It introduces zone-based incentive categorisation (Zone 1/2/3 district classification), capital subsidies, stamp-duty exemption, electricity-tax exemption, interest subsidy, ESDM-specific top-up incentives that layer onto central PLI/ECMS/Semicon Mission schemes, and a Cabinet Sub-Committee under the Chief Minister to sanction bespoke "Anchor Investor" and "Mega/Ultra-Mega" customised incentive packages.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding 16 entities to the Entity List under the destinations of China (14) and Singapore (2). The additions concentrate on the Sophgo Technologies cluster and a set of affiliated PRC fabless / system houses (Suanze, Suanxin, Suanhu, Suanli, Suanneng, Sophon, Quliang, Shunhua) plus two Singapore entities (Sophgo Technologies Pte. Ltd., PowerAir Pte. Ltd.) acting as offshore extensions of the same group. BIS cites involvement in "supporting or directly contributing to the development of advanced computing integrated circuits" that further PRC advanced-weapons, WMD, and high-tech surveillance programs. License requirement covers all items subject to the EAR with a presumption-of-denial review policy. The rule was effective on publication, January 16, 2025.