http://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0313/c90000-20288699.html

China’s healthcare authority NHSA issued a pricing guideline for neural system care services, which specifically listed brain-computer interface (BCI) as an independent category, paving the way for the rapid clinical application of BCI technology in clinical use.

BCI technology establishes a direct connection between the brain and external devices. When the brain engages in thinking activities, it generates electrical waves, and BCI reads the brain’s intentions directly by recognizing the characteristics of these waves, converting them into computer commands to achieve interaction and connectivity between humans and machines or the external environment. This enables paralyzed individuals to walk, aphasic individuals to “speak” and blind individuals to “see”.

Domestic companies, such as tech start-up BrainUp, have developed devices such as electroencephalography (EEG) caps, which enable functions like typing with a person’s thoughts and controlling smart home devices. The advent of portable EEG acquisition devices has also promoted the application of non-invasive BCI technology in more household and medical scenarios.