Jinan Qibustarting Area has introduced eight policies for the metaverse, with a maximum subsidy of 10 million yuan.

According to a BlockBeats report on June 6th, the Jinan New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Pilot Zone has introduced eight policies for the metaverse. The pilot zone will support the construction of an innovative platform for the metaverse. For platforms recognized at the national, provincial, and municipal levels, financial subsidies will be given based on the actual investment amount, with subsidies of 30%, 20%, and 10%, respectively. The highest rewards will be 10 million yuan, 8 million yuan, and 5 million yuan, respectively. The policy encourages enterprises to collaborate with universities and research institutions in the fields of spatial computing, holographic fields, digital twins, blockchain, brain-inspired science, machine vision, robotic biomimetic perception and cognition, and human-machine natural interaction to carry out key technology collaborative research. For metaverse projects with R&D expenses exceeding 5 million yuan in the current year, subsidies will be given based on 10% of the growth of their R&D expenses, up to a maximum of 1 million yuan.