BEIJING, February 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A report from People’s Daily:
More than 300 robotics-related companies have gathered in Beijing’s Yizhuang Economic and Technological Development Zone (BDA), forming an industrial chain valued at more than 10 billion yuan. Why has Yizhuang become such a magnet for robotics companies?
Two notable competitions held in 2025 provide clues. In April, the world’s first humanoid robot half marathon took place in Yizhuang. Then, in November, the first finals of the China International Robotics Debate Competition were held there. One event tested physical (“martial”) prowess, the other intellectual (“civil”) abilities.
Cai Jizheng, director of the BDA’s Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Office, described the events less as competitions and more as scientific experiments and technical validations. He explained that humanoid robots incorporate cutting-edge technologies such as embodied intelligence, advanced manufacturing and new materials. Their main areas of development focus on the “brain” (perception, cognition, decision-making), the “cerebellum” (movement control), and the “body” (material structure). “We have adopted a strategy of holding competitions almost every month,” Cai said, “to drive technological progress and concentrate talents through competition.”
Although favorable policies are a major attraction for companies that “vote with their feet,” access to real-world application scenarios is even more critical. In August 2025, Yizhuang released the “Ten Measures for Embodied Intelligence Robots”, providing substantial incentives such as 100 million yuan per year in “data vouchers”, “prototyping vouchers” to reduce costs, and subsidies for sales of humanoid robots. These impactful measures cover the entire industrial chain, from data and R&D to scenarios and sales.
Earlier that year, in February 2025, a unique “job offer” was announced by the robot “Tian Gong”: the “Beijing Yizhuang Nine Reference Robotic Application Scenario Opportunity List”. This initiative officially opened up Yizhuang’s urban resources, pledging to unlock opportunities for more than 10,000 embodied intelligence robots worth nearly 5 billion yuan within two years, including more than 1,000 humanoid robots.
Director Cai emphasized that access to scenarios extends beyond the list. Using Yizhuang New Town as a testbed, BDA is implementing an embodied intelligence social experimentation plan, allowing robots to learn in real-world environments. “We have already opened more than 40 real-world environments such as supermarkets, pharmacies, hotels and warehouses,” Cai noted, “generating millions of high-quality datasets for autonomous embedded intelligence.”
The Yizhuang ecosystem is maturing rapidly. It hosts Beijing’s unique “Human-like Robot Future Industry Incubation Base”, the city’s first “Agile and Flexible Robot Manufacturing Platform” and the first “Humanoid Robot Driver Verification Platform”. A 250,000 square meter Beijing robotics industrial park is under development, supplemented by a 10 billion yuan robotics industrial fund. Efforts also include the creation of 4S stores of embodied intelligence robots. These platforms aim to bring together essential resources and build a complete ecosystem.
The zone has basically formed a complete industrial chain covering core components, whole machine manufacturing, system integration and scenario-based solutions. It has established a “1+6” industrial system centered on central components and six types of robots: humanoid, industrial, specialized, medical, collaborative and logistics robots.
Kong Lei, secretary of the BDA working committee, set ambitious goals: “We will continue to develop future industries such as embedded intelligence. » By the end of 2027, Yizhuang aims to create at least 10 reference intelligent scenario complexes, deploy 100 specialized AI models, and attract 1,000 core enterprises into its AI industrial chain.
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SOURCE People’s Daily
