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Beijing's Haidian district is accelerating its push to become a hub for brain-computer interface development, with nearly 60% of China's key BCI companies based in the district, CCTV.com reported on August 6, 2026. According to the report, the Zhongguancun (Haidian) BCI Industry Cluster was formally unveiled at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum annual meeting and now hosts more than 20 BCI projects, and an AI-plus-BCI standards testing and validation laboratory has been completed. The report did not disclose a list of the cluster's projects, the methodology behind the company figure, or further construction plans.

The first brain-computer interface hospital ward in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region was unveiled in Hohhot, CCTV.com reported on July 17, 2026. At the unveiling ceremony, Hurile, head of the rehabilitation medicine department at Inner Mongolia Medical University, delivered a briefing introducing the ward's construction, technical strengths and development plans, framing the ward as a starting point for building a new clinical rehabilitation ecosystem in the autonomous region. The report did not disclose the ward's bed capacity, equipment, patient scope or opening date, nor the full name of the hospital housing the ward.