Jiangsu Opens BCI to Nuclear and Mining Work
Summary
Nine Jiangsu provincial departments in eastern China led by the Department of Industry and Information Technology issued the Action Plan for Innovative Development of the Brain-Computer Interface Industry in Jiangsu in March 2026, implementing national guidance from seven ministries. Its most distinctive provision covers industrial deployment, directing firms in hazardous materials, nuclear power, mining and electricity to pilot BCI systems in safety management and deep-sea and deep-pit operations, sectors no other provincial document names. Headline goals are at least two provincial clusters by 2027 and two to three leading enterprises by 2030. Its quantitative targets sit at the end of 14 tasks and all fall in 2030, including at least 15 programme projects, 15 key technology tasks, about 10 innovation platforms, 30 certified flagship products, 20 registered medical devices and a dataset of at least 20,000 samples.
Why it matters
The only provincial document naming hazardous materials, nuclear, mining and power as BCI deployment sectors. Fatigue and attention monitoring in such settings needs no implant and no device registration, making it among the nearest-term commercial uses. Note that every quantitative target sits at 2030, so it cannot be compared directly with other provinces' 2027 numbers.
BCIwiki (bciwiki.com) — Nine Jiangsu provincial departments in eastern China, led by the Department of Industry and Information Technology (江苏省工业和信息化厅) and joined by the development and reform, education, science and technology, health, state-owned assets, data, intellectual property and medical products bodies, issued the Action Plan for Innovative Development of the Brain-Computer Interface Industry in Jiangsu in March 2026. The text states it implements guidance issued by seven national ministries under document number MIIT Lian Ke [2025] No. 164. Goals are set at two horizons. By 2027 the province seeks breakthroughs in electrodes, chips and algorithms, registration approvals for a group of BCI medical devices, and at least two provincial industry clusters. By 2030 it wants two to three enterprises of national and international influence and a bid for national future-industry pilot status. The quantitative targets do not appear in the headline goals but at the end of 14 tasks, and all fall in 2030: at least 15 science and technology programme projects, about 10 provincial innovation platforms, at least 15 key technology tasks, at least 30 certified flagship products, at least 20 products cleared through medical device registration, at least 30 consumer application scenarios, and three to five public service platforms hosting a dataset of at least 20,000 standardised trial and patient samples. On deployment the plan directs enterprises in hazardous materials, nuclear power, mining and electricity to pilot BCI systems for safety management and for deep-sea and deep-pit operations, and encourages industrial equipment control, robot control and human-machine interaction applications built on the technology. It also supports qualified universities in founding BCI colleges and names the Jiangsu BCI Research Institute and the Nanjing University BCI Research Institute for cross-sector work with artificial intelligence, new materials and integrated circuit firms. Nanjing and Suzhou are designated for provincial future-industry clustering pilots.
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