BEIJING — On September 7^th, the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission released the Policy Measures for Supporting Hydrogen Energy Infrastructure Construction with Municipal Government Fixed-asset Investment (Draft for Comments) to solicit public feedback through September 11th, 2026. The policy aims to implement national pilot requirements for comprehensive hydrogen applications and accelerate the development of Beijing's full hydrogen value chain spanning production, storage, transport, and utilization.

According to the draft, Beijing plans to leverage municipal fixed-asset investment to provide categorized capital subsidies across:

Infrastructure Development: Projects constructing integrated production-refueling stations, standalone hydrogen production facilities, or adding production units to existing refueling stations will receive subsidies equivalent to 30% of project construction investment (excluding land acquisition and demolition costs, hereinafter the same). Newly built or retrofitted refueling stations with a rated compressor capacity of 1 ton or more over a 12hour operating period. For newly built hydrogen transmission pipelines or projects retrofitted from existing gas pipelines (including projects passing through Beijing to supply hydrogen to the city), subsidies of 30% of the project construction investment within Beijing will be offered.

Innovative Scenario Applications: To encourage demonstrations across backup power, combined heat and power(CHP), and new hydrogen-based energy storage systems, the city will offer a standardized 30% subsidy on project construction investment. Individual backup power and CHP projects will receive caps of up to RMB 800,000, while new energy storage projects are capped at RMB 1.6 million.

Innovation Platforms: For enterprises building proprietary innovative research, pilot-testing, testing/inspection, and analytical monitoring platforms, the policy offers subsidies covering up to 35% of total project investment, capped at RMB 100 million per project.

Source:CIHC