2025-05-12 00:00 China Policy & Regulation Industrial Planning Translated from EN

Sichuan Targets 3,000 Brain Implant Ops a Year

Summary Eight Sichuan provincial departments in southwestern China led by the Department of Economy and Information Technology issued the Action Plan for Breakthroughs in the Brain-Computer Interface and Human-Machine Interaction Industry in Sichuan (2025-2030) on May 12, 2025. The plan is unusual in making surgical volume a headline metric, targeting 3,000 invasive BCI procedures a year by 2030, along with services for more than 100,000 patients a year with neurodegenerative disease, psychiatric conditions and drug or digital addiction, and rehabilitation device use exceeding 20,000 sessions a year. By 2027 it aims to complete development and medical device registration of three invasive and five non-invasive products, carry out the province's first invasive BCI operation, serve more than 50,000 patients a year, and cultivate 10 chain-leading firms, 100 specialised SMEs and 200 innovative smaller enterprises. Chengdu, Mianyang, Deyang and Nanchong are named as host cities.

Why it matters The only provincial BCI policy to make surgical volume its headline number. Three thousand invasive procedures a year would dwarf the global cumulative implant count to date, so the target is best read as industrial mobilisation whose credibility rests on device registration, surgeon training and payment coverage advancing together.

BCIwiki (bciwiki.com) — Eight departments of Sichuan province in southwestern China, led by the Department of Economy and Information Technology (四川省经济和信息化厅) and joined by the provincial development and reform, education, science and technology, culture and tourism, health, healthcare security and medical products administration bodies, jointly issued the Action Plan for Breakthroughs in the Brain-Computer Interface and Human-Machine Interaction Industry in Sichuan (2025-2030) on May 12, 2025, under document number Chuan Jing Xin Xin An [2025] No. 82.

The plan sets targets at two horizons. By 2027 the province intends to complete development and medical device registration for three invasive and five non-invasive BCI products, carry out its first invasive BCI operation, and serve more than 50,000 patients a year through open medical scenarios. By 2030 it aims to cultivate 10 chain-leading companies, 100 specialised SMEs and 200 innovative smaller firms, to perform 3,000 invasive BCI procedures a year, to serve more than 100,000 patients a year with neurodegenerative disease, psychiatric conditions and drug or digital addiction, and to record more than 20,000 rehabilitation device sessions a year.

For delivery the plan adopts a two-way open competition mechanism in which companies post technical needs and research teams post results seeking markets, and it advances invasive and non-invasive routes in parallel. Geographically, it directs Chengdu, Mianyang, Deyang and Nanchong to attract chain-leading, backbone, supporting and service firms, and backs Chengdu in establishing a manufacturing innovation centre for the sector. Issued by the provincial industry regulator with seven co-signatories, it is Sichuan’s first dedicated provincial document in this field.

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