China’s Quantum Technology Investment Heats Up, Driving Commercialization Progress
Investment and financing in China’s quantum technology sector have maintained a strong upward trend since the start of this year, with capital pouring into the frontier field amid policy support and broad application prospects. Data from institutional sources shows that the total financing volume in China’s quantum track in the first quarter of this year has exceeded the entire amount of 2025, with more than 7 cases involving single financing exceeding 100 million yuan, according to the Economic Reference News.
Industry insiders interviewed by the Economic Reference News noted that the surge in investment and financing reflects capital’s long-term optimism about the sector’s underlying technological breakthroughs and vast application potential. With the dual impetus of policy and capital, quantum technology is accelerating its transition from the laboratory R&D stage to a phase of comprehensive competition in commercialization capabilities.
Recently, iFlytek announced a strategic investment in Liangyi Wanxiang (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. and jointly established Liangzhi Kaiwu (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. with it. Sources from Liangyi Wanxiang revealed that the investment also attracted the participation of many leading funds, including Beijing Information Industry Development Investment Fund and Shunwei Capital, and more than 100 institutions have expressed investment intentions since the financing started, a clear indication of the sector’s investment enthusiasm.
“Quantum technology is not a short-term explosive track but a key frontier field worthy of long-term investment and continuous layout. Enterprises tend to ‘view opportunities at different levels and make phased layouts’,” Xu Jian, partner of iFlytek Venture Capital, told the Economic Reference News. He added that the investment in Liangyi Wanxiang is based on the judgment of the long-term trend of “quantum computing + AI”, aiming to gain a more favorable position in the next-generation technological competition and accelerate the transition of “quantum + AI” from exploration to practical application.
A number of quantum technology enterprises have announced new rounds of financing recently. On April 3, Shenzhen Quantum Spin Technology Co., Ltd. completed 600 million yuan in Series C+ financing, with the funds to be mainly invested in the R&D and iteration of high-qubit superconducting quantum chips and the expansion of large-scale production lines. On March 31, Beijing Boson Quantum completed 1 billion yuan in Series B financing, while Hefei Yaozheng Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. secured several hundred million yuan in Pre-A round financing on March 29.
Data from CVSource shows that the total financing volume in China’s quantum track reached 3.204 billion yuan in the first quarter alone, surpassing the full-year figure of 2025. Insiders pointed out that the investment boom essentially reflects the resonance between national strategy and long-term capital value, as the 14th Five-Year Plan Outline proposes to “promote quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communications to become new economic growth points”.
Quantum technology covers quantum computing, quantum secure communication, and quantum precision measurement, among other fields. Quantum computing, which is expected to achieve computing power far exceeding that of classical computers, is widely regarded as the most disruptive quantum technology. The 2026 Top Ten Future Industry Tracks released by the CCID Research Institute shows that China’s quantum computing is boosted by policy and demand resonance, with the market scale expected to exceed 20 billion yuan by 2030.
Ma Yin, founder and COO of Boson Quantum, noted that the “AI + quantum computing” track is currently in a critical window from laboratory exploration to scenario verification and industrial application, with “AI pharmaceutical + quantum computing” likely to be the first breakthrough scenario. Wang Ye, vice president of the Sixth Investment Department of CSC Financial Investment Co., Ltd., emphasized that quantum computing and quantum precision measurement have completed “from 0 to 1” technical verification, and the industry is at a key inflection point from R&D to large-scale development, with prominent investment value.
