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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
This year's government work report mentioned brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for the first time, identifying them as a promising future industry. Proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan also clearly outline the need for strategic planning for emerging industries and to promote BCIs as a new driver of economic growth.
Industry representatives believe that BCI, as a revolutionary human-computer interaction technology, is expanding its application areas from a key area of medical rehabilitation to the space industry, industry, everyday life, education, and other areas, gradually becoming a key technology capable of transforming many industries.
"China's BCI industry is at a critical juncture of accelerated technological breakthroughs, rapid ecosystem development, and gradual commercialization. China has already entered the top tier of global BCI developers," said Min Dong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Vice President of Tianjin University.
Min Dong noted that, technologically, China is already keeping pace with global leaders in the field of non-invasive BCIs, and even ahead of them in some segments. The technological gap in key components for invasive BCIs is rapidly narrowing. In terms of industry development, capital market interest in the sector continues to grow, and the entire production chain is gradually moving from laboratory research to industrialization.
Cheng Longlong, General Manager of CEC Cloud Brain Co., Ltd. (Tianjin), noted that the development of the BCI industry still faces several challenges, including a shortage of highly skilled personnel, barriers to interdisciplinary technology integration, and limited industrialization capabilities in some key areas.
Min Dong agreed with this assessment, stating, "BCI combines the most advanced theories and technologies from multiple disciplines, including medicine, computer science, electronics, mechanics, and materials science. Due to the long technological chain, any weak link could slow down the industrialization process."
Min Dong proposed to quickly establish a system of specialized disciplines necessary for the implementation of the national BCI strategy: from accelerating the development of discipline architecture at the highest level and creating a mechanism for joint training of personnel between universities and enterprises to improving the system for assessing specialists and incentive mechanisms for building a highly qualified team with extensive experience and interdisciplinary education.
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