First Prescription Issued for Brain-Computer Interface; Concept Stocks Surge

The National Medical Products Administration will advance the implementation of the pharmaceutical trial data protection system, establish market exclusivity periods for pediatric drugs and rare disease medications, and strengthen pre-guidance for innovative drugs with new targets and mechanisms. A responsible official from the NMPA stated that it will also expand the "Spring Rain Action" for transforming clinical innovations in medical devices, and formulate clinical trial and review guiding principles in frontier areas such as brain-computer interfaces. Zhongtai Securities noted that AI4S is expanding from single-point tool applications to coordinated development across data, models, wet-lab experiments, and R&D processes, and that life science upstream and CXO companies with high-quality data accumulation, automated experimental platforms, and industrial customer bases are expected to benefit continuously. As of 11:22 on September 21, 2026, the Penghua STAR Market Healthcare ETF rose 3.87%, with constituent stock HitGen up 14.54%, and Zelgen Biopharmaceuticals and Huiyu Pharmaceutical following the gains; the Penghua Hang Seng Biotech ETF rose 4.56%.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released on August 24 a draft for comments of the National Brain-Computer Interface Industry Standards System Construction Guidelines 2026 Edition, proposing to formulate or revise more than 40 standards in the brain-computer interface field by 2028 and to promote standards publicity and implementation among over 100 enterprises. In early trading today, consumer sector indices such as daily chemicals, tourism, and hotels and catering led gains, with the daily chemicals industry rising the most. Proya, Betaini, and SYoung Group all gained more than 5 percent, while Qingdao Kingking shot up and sealed the daily limit within two minutes, becoming the only limit-up stock in the daily chemicals sector. Brain-computer interface concept stocks have fallen an average of 15.74 percent this year, but since August the average daily turnover of 10 concept stocks has increased month on month. Beijing Beilu Pharmaceutical had an average daily turnover of 317 million yuan, up 71.83 percent month on month, ranking first. According to statistics from Securities Times Data Treasure, there are currently more than 30 A-share concept stocks involved in the brain-computer interface industry chain, with companies such as Medlander, Vishee, Meihao Medical, Apon Medical, and ZKTeco all having layouts.

Brain-computer interface technology is accelerating its move from the laboratory into clinical and consumer markets. The global market is expected to exceed 360 billion yuan by 2035, with China likely to account for more than 30 percent of that share. Neuralink has announced completion of the world's first brain-computer interface surgery implanted through the dura mater, while China's first subdural implantable brain-computer interface system has also begun national Class III medical device registration clinical trials. Companies listed in both A-share and Hong Kong markets, such as Wision Medical, Sanbo Brain Hospital, and MicroPort NeuroTech, have already achieved commercial revenue through non-invasive rehabilitation, clinical data assets, and implantable products. On the policy front, brain-computer interfaces have been included in the future industries section of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong have introduced targeted support policies, and an industry standardization technical committee has also been established. Institutions expect 2027 to become the first year of commercial explosion for brain-computer interfaces.

The Sci-Tech Innovation Board Medical ETF Huaxia, ticker 588130, saw its latest shares reach 456 million, a one-year high. As of 2:07 PM on July 29, 2026, the ETF rose 0.91 percent, with the latest price at 1 yuan, intraday turnover rate of 13.39 percent, and trading volume of 60.8075 million yuan. The Shanghai Sci-Tech Innovation Board Biomedical Index it tracks surged 1.19 percent, with constituent stock Haoyuan Chemexpress rising 9.32 percent and Baili Tianheng rising 4.87 percent. In related news, the 2026 government work report for the first time explicitly designated biomedicine as an emerging pillar industry. The 15th Five-Year Plan listed brain-computer interfaces as a frontier core industry. The leap in top-level policy positioning, combined with China's innovative drug license-out deals hitting a record high and the first prescription for the implantable brain-computer interface NEO, marks the track's transition from the laboratory to clinical application.

The brain-computer interface concept continued its strong momentum in early trading on July 28, with Innovative Medical hitting a 4-day 3-board streak, and Hainan Haiyao, Yanshan Technology, and Thalys Medical hitting the daily limit up. The core catalyst for this rally came from an overseas commercialization milestone: US startup Science Corp.'s retinal chip PRIMA has received EU CE certification, becoming the world's first brain-computer interface device to obtain this certification, and has been approved for sale in 30 European countries. On the domestic front, a Chinese research team unveiled a new EEG signal acquisition device, achieving the world's first cross-regional synchronous EEG signal collection from over a thousand people. The implantable brain-computer interface hand motor function compensation system NEO issued its first prescription in Shanghai and completed the world's first implant surgery. Capital market enthusiasm is high, with total financing in China's brain-computer interface sector exceeding 4.4 billion yuan from January to May 2026, more than doubling the full-year total of last year. A research report from Zheshang Securities pointed out that the market size for brain-computer interface demand in China's serious medical field alone could reach 20 to 60 billion yuan, while the global market is projected to grow from 2.41 billion dollars in 2025 to 12.11 billion dollars in 2035, at a compound annual growth rate of 15.8 percent. Southwest Securities judged that 2026 will be the first year of mass production for brain-computer interfaces, with the industry at the tail end of the introduction phase and on the eve of an explosion.