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Chinese insurers have begun introducing BCI-related coverage. Shanghai's 2026 Hu-huibao plan added up to 150,000 yuan for out-of-pocket materials used in inpatient BCI surgery, PICC Property and Casualty underwrote an invasive-BCI surgical accident policy for the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and China Pacific Property Insurance covered patients receiving Neuracle's NEO implant at Huashan Hospital.

People's Daily Online reported that multiple people with high-level paralysis used StairMed's minimally invasive implantable BCI for three to four consecutive hours of computer work, including e-commerce logistics coordination and vending-machine data labeling. The company reported a 256-channel system and latency below 50 milliseconds. The article did not provide a participant count, standardized protocol or adverse-event table.

Nanjing has built end-to-end competitiveness across the brain-computer interface industry chain, People's Daily Online reported on July 28, 2026. According to the report, the city earlier issued an action plan to become a national hub for BCI industry innovation and has set up a 3+3+3 BCI industry innovation system, drawing on universities including Southeast University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics to build 3 provincial- and ministerial-level key laboratories, and landing three core platforms covering neural signal coding and decoding, dedicated chips and brain imaging. The 2026 national BCI conference was also held in Nanjing. The report summed up the city's strengths as research, medical resources, application scenarios and capital ecosystem.

People's Daily Online reported that BrainCo completed an RMB 2 billion Series B+ round in January 2026, the largest single BCI financing in China at the time. The report did not disclose the lead investor, a complete investor list or the post-money valuation. The round indicates a capital-intensive expansion phase across BrainCo's non-invasive and medical product lines.