PANews, August 18 - Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, in conjunction with the Provincial Department of Finance, released the "Implementation Rules for Fund Management Related to the Innovative Development of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry." It is specified that for national-level manufacturing innovation centers, construction funding support will be provided in conjunction with national support policies, with subsidy funds not exceeding 40% of the total amount for newly purchased R&D instruments and equipment (including supporting software, excluding taxes) for the project, with a maximum of 50 million yuan for a single project. Specific reward and subsidy projects include innovation capability construction projects for manufacturing innovation centers in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, nurturing high-quality enterprises in artificial intelligence and robotics projects, promoting artificial intelligence-enabled new industrialization benchmark projects, and operating projects for open source communities and open source ecological centers. The "Implementation Rules" will be implemented from September 1, 2025, and will be valid until December 31, 2027.