The first "policy package" in Shandong Province in 2026: 28 policies including 20 reward subsidies
Recently, the People's Government of Shandong Province issued the "2026 Policy List for Promoting Economic 'Steady Progress, Improving Quality and Efficiency' (First Batch)" (hereinafter referred to as the "List"), which is based on the mission of being an economic powerhouse and has launched 28 policy measures in five major areas. The series of support policies for the development of equipment manufacturing industry are particularly outstanding. By cultivating new growth points, stabilizing key industries, and exploring overseas markets, it injects strong momentum into the transformation and upgrading of the province's equipment manufacturing industry, and helps the economy to continue to recover and improve.
1、 Cultivate new growth points
New quality productivity is the core driving force for the high-quality development of equipment manufacturing industry. The policy list focuses on cutting-edge fields and emerging tracks, and accurately lays out incremental space. In the field of low altitude economy, Shandong has systematically deployed it as a new growth pole for equipment manufacturing industry, playing a "combination punch" of policy support, and fully activating the coordinated development momentum of low altitude equipment manufacturing, infrastructure construction, and scenario applications. The List focuses on three core areas: infrastructure, equipment manufacturing, and application scenarios, and plans to implement around 50 major benchmark projects, covering multiple sub sectors such as low altitude takeoff and landing sites, intelligent control systems, drone research and development, low altitude logistics distribution, and air tourism and sightseeing, forming a project matrix of "building, supplementing, and strengthening chains". In order to ensure the implementation of projects and achieve results, the List proposes to actively align with national policy guidance, strive for diversified policy funding support such as central budget investment, ultra long term special treasury bond, special bonds of local governments, new policy based financial instruments, etc., to provide sufficient fund guarantee for low altitude economic projects and reduce enterprise investment and financing costs.
At the top-level design level, Shandong focuses on building a scientifically sound institutional guarantee system. One is to formulate a low altitude infrastructure construction plan for the whole province, clarify the construction standards, spatial layout, and promotion sequence of low altitude flight take-off and landing points, route networks, communication and navigation, air traffic control support and other infrastructure, plan and construct a batch of low altitude flight service stations with strong universality and high intelligence level, and create a low altitude infrastructure network that covers the whole province and is interconnected; The second is to develop an action plan for expanding low altitude application scenarios, focusing on key areas such as logistics transportation, emergency rescue, urban governance, agriculture, forestry, plant protection, and cultural tourism consumption. A list of replicable and promotable application scenarios will be compiled to guide low altitude equipment manufacturing enterprises to accurately connect with application demand sides and accelerate the transformation of technological achievements. Shandong will also take the lead in carrying out the planning of low altitude public air routes. Based on the geographical and spatial characteristics of the province and the needs of industrial development, a number of low altitude visual flight routes, branch routes, and intercity routes will be planned to break through the "airspace bottleneck" of low altitude flight and lay the foundation for the normalization and large-scale application of low altitude equipment.
In terms of technical support and market operation, Shandong is synchronously promoting the construction of a provincial-level low altitude intelligent network connection system, integrating advanced technologies such as Beidou navigation, 5G communication, artificial intelligence, and big data, and building an intelligent control platform that integrates flight plan approval, real-time monitoring and scheduling, and safety emergency response. It realizes the full process and refined management of low altitude flight activities, and improves the safety and efficiency of low altitude flight. In addition, Shandong actively explores market-oriented operation models, studies the establishment of a provincial low altitude economic development group, drives social capital participation through state-owned capital guidance, and coordinates the promotion of project investment, infrastructure construction, market operation services, and other work in the low altitude economic field, forming a development pattern of "government guidance, market leadership, and diversified participation". This series of measures not only provides a full chain service platform for low altitude equipment manufacturing enterprises, including policy support, financial support, technical support, and market application, but also helps attract upstream and downstream enterprises to gather, accelerate the formation of a billion dollar low altitude economic industrial cluster covering research and development design, production and manufacturing, operation services, and application scenarios, and open up new growth space for the equipment manufacturing industry.
Commercial aerospace, as an important growth point for high-end equipment manufacturing, receives special incentives and support from policies. For launch projects implemented by commercial aerospace rocket or satellite enterprises relying on offshore launch platforms, a maximum bonus of 3 million yuan will be given based on 35% of the total premium of "launch insurance" and "third-party insurance"; Select enterprises with core technological competitiveness in the commercial aerospace field and provide a maximum reward of 1 million yuan to each company to support their core component research and development, production line upgrading and transformation, and industrial chain collaboration project construction, helping Shandong build an important national commercial aerospace equipment manufacturing and application base.
Artificial intelligence empowers the equipment manufacturing industry to provide key support for improving quality and efficiency. The policy will allocate 50 million yuan from the provincial budget investment, focusing on supporting artificial intelligence application pilot bases and scenario research projects. A maximum subsidy of 10 million yuan will be given to approved national level application pilot bases to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and equipment manufacturing, accelerate the research and development and large-scale application of intelligent production lines, industrial robots, intelligent detection equipment and other products, and enhance the digitalization and intelligence level of the industry.
2、 Stabilize the fundamentals of key industries
In response to the high correlation and strong driving force of the equipment manufacturing industry, the policy list ensures stable production and quality improvement in key industries through "one industry, one policy" and "precise drip irrigation". Develop stable growth work plans for 12 industries closely related to equipment manufacturing, including automobiles, and refine support measures to promote stable and full production, capacity expansion and efficiency improvement of enterprises, and enhance industry capacity utilization. At the same time, provincial-level funds will be coordinated to implement policies such as "special loans for technological transformation" with interest subsidies and equipment awards for technological transformation, supporting enterprises to carry out equipment updates, technological innovation, and green transformation, and helping the traditional equipment manufacturing industry move towards the mid to high end.
Green transformation is the only way for the high-quality development of equipment manufacturing industry. Strengthen the long-term mechanism of government procurement support for green building materials, improve the adoption mechanism, increase the application ratio, guide engineering construction projects to select green building materials that meet standards, and expand market space for building materials and equipment manufacturing enterprises; Simultaneously supporting the green and low-carbon transformation of upstream industries such as steel and aluminum manufacturing, improving the recycling, processing, and distribution system of renewable resources, promoting efficient utilization, and building a green manufacturing industry chain.
To solve the development problems of enterprises, the policy establishes a normalized mechanism for special actions to serve private enterprises, dynamically collects and solves the demands of enterprises in production and operation, financing and loans, factor guarantee, and other aspects, and improves targeted policy supply. Intensify efforts to clear overdue corporate accounts, promote timely collection of accounts receivable through legal means, and alleviate financial pressure on equipment manufacturing enterprises; In terms of factor guarantee, the supply of "standard land" will be expanded to industrial land such as logistics, and flexible land supply methods such as long-term leasing and lease before transfer will be adopted. The exemption policy for the total pollutant emission quota of small and micro enterprises will be implemented to provide convenience for equipment manufacturing enterprises to land projects and expand production.
3、 'Going Global' to Expand Growth Space
Relying on the advantages of Shandong as a major foreign trade province, the "List" has launched a series of measures to assist equipment manufacturing enterprises in "going global" and participating in global competition. Implement the "Ten Thousand Enterprises Going Global to Shandong Trade" campaign, organize more than 500 overseas exhibitions and events by 2026, mobilize more than 10000 enterprises to participate in international exhibitions at home and abroad, and provide subsidies of up to 4 million yuan per exhibition for exhibition booth fees, exhibit transportation fees, etc., to build a platform for enterprises to directly face the international market for display and docking.
We will increase policy support to address the pain points and difficulties of overseas development for enterprises. Provide support to eligible foreign trade enterprises for overseas patent applications, trademark registration, and qualification certification fees, with a maximum of 50% of the actual expenditure, to help enterprises break down technical barriers in overseas markets; We will provide high-value patent protection subsidies, with a maximum subsidy of 600000 yuan for successful overseas protection cases and 200000 yuan for successful domestic protection cases, to provide solid protection for overseas intellectual property rights of equipment manufacturing enterprises.
Promoting the integrated development of cross-border e-commerce and industrial belts is a major highlight of the policy. In 2026, Shandong will coordinate funds and focus on high value-added equipment manufacturing related industries such as automotive parts, electronic appliances, and medical equipment. It will cultivate about 10 characteristic industry belt product selection centers, incubate about 1000 enterprises, and provide comprehensive services such as cross-border live streaming, brand incubation, and AI technology application for enterprises. It will help equipment manufacturing enterprises expand overseas markets through new cross-border e-commerce models and create a global business card of "Shandong Foreign Trade Excellent Products".
We believe that with the implementation and effectiveness of various policies in the 'List', it will further stimulate the innovation vitality and development momentum of the province's industry, especially the equipment manufacturing industry, and inject strong momentum into the sustained recovery and improvement of the province's economy.
Commentator on this website: Guo Guangli
Policy Original Text Link "2026 Policy List for Promoting Economic 'Steady Progress, Improving Quality and Efficiency' (First Batch)
