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China prepares $70 bn in chip sector incentives
Financial Express Mumbai
|December 13, 2025
CHINA IS CONSIDERING a package of incentives worth $70 billion to bankroll and support its chipmaking industry, pouring more state money into a sector it deems pivotal to its technological conflict with the US. Officials are deliberating proposals to earmark a package of subsidies and other financing support in the range of 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) to 500 billion yuan, people familiar with the matter said, asking to remain anonymous to discuss private talks.
Final details of those incentives, exact amounts, target firms are getting worked out, people added.
This story is from the December 13, 2025 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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