Original title: Jinan Bureau of Industry and Information Technology and other 7 departments on the issuance of Jinan City to promote the development of e-sports game industry a number of policy measures notice
In order to promote the rapid and healthy development of the e-sports game industry in Jinan City, to cultivate the digital economy of the new industry, and continue to enhance the vitality of the city's economic development, to help build a strong intelligent economy and digital pioneer city, combined with the city's actuality, to formulate the following policies and measures.

One, improve the development of the carrier

1. Construction of multi-level e-sports venues. Accelerate the construction of large-scale professional venues for e-sports events that meet the standards of international events. Support conditional districts and counties and enterprises to invest in the construction of medium-sized specialized e-sports venues. Encourage the use of existing stadiums, exhibition centers, theaters, Internet cafes, state-owned enterprises idle plant and other venues, unused space in accordance with the law to expand small and medium-sized e-sports venues, and support the operation of the main body to make full use of the existing facilities to carry out e-sports-related activities. [Responsible units: Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, districts and counties (functional zones)]

2. Construction of high-level e-sports gaming industry agglomeration area. Support the construction of gaming research and development, tournament operation, gaming live broadcasting, training, derivatives development and other industrial elements of the concentration of gaming game theme industrial parks (bases), and encourage qualified gaming game industrial parks to declare small and microenterprise entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases. Support the declaration of national and provincial characteristic industrial clusters by the e-sports game industrial clusters. [Responsible units: Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, districts and counties (functional areas)]

3. Construction of e-sports training bases. Support schools and enterprises to build e-sports talent training base, to carry out tournament commentary, e-sports referee, brokerage management, organization and operation, broadcast production and other professional skills and industry norms of training, for the evaluation of Shandong Province, new and old energy conversion of public training projects, Jinan City, the advanced manufacturing industry and the digital economy in the field of public training bases, in accordance with the relevant policies to give financial subsidies. (Responsible units: Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau)

2. Strengthening the introduction of enterprises

4. Vigorously introduce domestic and foreign outstanding e-sports game production companies, tournament operation companies, live platform companies, short video companies, research and development institutions, studios and other industry leaders and related organizations, to set up headquarters in Jinan and meet the relevant conditions, according to the city's headquarters economy support policies, office space, growth incentives, expanding investment, talent protection and other aspects of support. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission)

5. Strengthen the cultivation of e-sports game enterprises. Support for gaming enterprises to accelerate the growth, support the cultivation of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of gaming, specialization, gazelles, unicorns and other high-quality enterprises, for enterprises that meet the relevant standards in accordance with the provisions of the support. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Municipal Sports Bureau)

3. Encouragement of creation and research and development

6. Support for the creation and production of e-sports game content. Encourage enterprises to strengthen the content innovation and technological innovation of e-sports games, focusing on the research and development of mobile and host e-sports products that meet the market demand and industry development trend, and encouraging the research and development of local characteristics of game products that highlight the characteristics of Qilu and the flavor of Quancheng, and to create original high-quality masterpieces that carry forward the core socialist values, represent the direction of the development of advanced culture, and disseminate the concept of civilization. Support the development of gaming products, the first version of the software products awarded, according to a certain period of time the actual total sales of the product to the development of the unit does not exceed 30%, the maximum of 2 million yuan reward. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism)

7. Support the construction of industrial development and innovation platform. Support domestic and foreign e-sports games and related industry R&D organizations to settle in Jinan. Support the declaration of one enterprise and one technology R&D center, software engineering technology center, enterprise technology center and other types of R&D platforms, and support the approved enterprises according to the policy. Encourage science and technology business incubators and creative spaces to incubate and cultivate e-sports product development, clubs, brokerage services, teams and other types of enterprises or teams, qualified science and technology business incubators, in accordance with the "Science and Innovation Jinan" policy to give support. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology)

Four, support for tournaments and activities

8. Actively introduce high-level brand events. Strengthen with domestic and foreign e-sports industry associations and organizations, e-sports game leading enterprises docking, support international and domestic high-level e-sports events held in Jinan, the hosting of the event of the market, according to the level of the event, the scale and the actual expenditure, to give the graded funding, the maximum amount of funding for each up to 8 million yuan. (Responsible units: Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau)

9. Accelerate the cultivation of independent brand events. Support the organization of small and medium-sized e-commerce tournaments and universal, performance and daily tournaments, as well as campus green e-commerce tournaments, and actively cultivate distinctive and influential Jinan's own brand e-commerce tournaments, and build Jinan's own IP brand tournament system. For e-sports brand events organized in Jinan with good development prospects, high market value and great influence, a maximum funding of 2 million yuan will be given to each event. (Responsible units: Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology)

10. Organize a series of activities around e-sports games. Support enterprises and organizations to hold industrial activities such as e-sports game forums and supply and demand docking sessions. For the gaming carnival exhibition, gaming cultural and creative design exhibition, gaming anchor race, animation game exhibition and other exhibition activities held in Jinan and meet the relevant conditions, in accordance with the "Jinan City, to promote the high-quality development of the exhibition industry a number of measures" to give awards and subsidies. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Commerce)

V. Promoting integrated development

11. Promoting the integrated development of e-sports games and peripheral industries. Support the integration of e-sports elements in public spaces such as parks, neighborhoods, parks, scenic spots, etc., and create a number of high-quality, experience-heavy, landmark e-sports featured venues with a high degree of influence nationwide. Support relevant enterprises to utilize new-generation digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and naked-eye 3D, to enhance e-sports content production and dissemination capabilities. Make full use of Jinan's new-generation information technology industry, scientific research, talents and other high-quality resources to drive the development of e-sports live broadcasting, brokerage, information, training, equipment and other peripheral industries. Make good use of the resources of existing TV channels and support mainstream media platforms to participate in the production and dissemination of tournament content. (Responsible units: Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Jinan Radio and Television Station, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Bureau of Landscape Architecture and Forestry and Greening)

Sixth, to strengthen the support of talent

12. Strengthen the cultivation and introduction of talent. Support the cultivation of professional talents for e-sports games, encourage colleges and vocational schools to open e-sports game majors through school-enterprise cooperation and other means, and establish a reserve talent training system. Formulate methods for evaluating e-sports game talents, and attract well-known domestic and foreign e-sports talents and excellent original teams to gather and develop in Jinan. Support e-sports related talents to declare "Sea Right Masters" professional and technical top talents, municipal leading talents, qualified e-sports talents, in accordance with the city's current talent support policies to support. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Education, Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology)

Seven, to create a favorable environment

13. Strengthen organizational safeguards. The establishment of multi-departmental participation in the development of e-sports games industry coordination mechanism, strengthen the urban linkage, departmental coordination, to form a synergy, strengthen policy support, optimize resource allocation, improve the spatial layout, strengthen the cultivation of enterprises and talent attraction, and grasp the policy implementation. (Responsible units: Propaganda Department of Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, Municipal Sports Bureau)

14. Optimize the market environment. Strengthen the ideological risk research and disposal in the field of e-sports games, in line with the principle of encouraging innovation, under the premise of strictly abiding by the safety bottom line for the development of new forms of space. We will strengthen the review and management of game selection and planning, ideology and other aspects, strictly supervise the post-publication of games, comprehensively promote the prevention of game addiction, and protect the physical and mental health of young people. Crack down on the "black and gray" industry, investigate and deal with unfair competition in accordance with the law, and maintain a fair competitive market order. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Municipal Bureau of Sports, Municipal Bureau of Education, Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision, Municipal Bureau of Public Security)

This policy will come into force on April 19, 2024, and will be valid until April 18, 2027. During the validity period of the policy, if there is any change in the policy adjustment, the policy will be implemented according to the adjusted policy. The same enterprise with the same project meets the conditions of a number of policy support, in accordance with the principle of "the higher not repeated" to give support.