Fujian's provincial humanoid platform now draws on district state capital from two cities, and its planned 10,000-unit Minqing plant is the test of whether that money turns into volume.
Fujian Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, a Fuzhou developer of low-cost wheeled humanoid robots, said on October 23 that it had completed a Pre-A+ funding round backed by the Fuzhou Gulou District Urban Construction Investment and Development Group (福州市鼓楼区城建投资发展集团有限公司) and Xiamen Hangzhi Liangshu Future Technology Incubator (厦门航智量数未来科技孵化器有限公司). The Chinese financial wire People’s Finance carried the announcement that morning. Neither the company nor the reports gave the amount or a valuation.
The round brings in public capital from two cities in the province. According to a fuller account in the Securities Times, the Gulou investor is entering "on a market basis" and will help with technology upgrades, deployments and supply-chain links, while the Xiamen incubator is a cooperation platform between Xiamen’s Siming district and Beihang University in Beijing. The paper said the center, founded in September 2025, has now completed two rounds, Pre-A and Pre-A+, in about a year.
What remains unclear is how much money is involved and who controls the company. Zhitong Finance reported that the center is registered in Fuzhou’s Gulou district and that its legal representative is Lin Qi, whom the Securities Times has described as founder and chief executive. None of the reports lists its shareholders.
Fujian’s provincial humanoid platform has moved quickly from launch to demonstrations
The center describes itself as Fujian’s first company developing its own humanoid robots. The Fuzhou Daily, the city’s official newspaper, called it the fifth provincial-level humanoid robot innovation platform in China, and quoted its head as saying the company arrived in Gulou only at the end of September 2025 and relied on support from the district government. The paper reported in August that Fuzhi robots were in a pilot on the Fuzhou metro and that the team was the only one from Fujian at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
The company’s products carry the Fuzhi (福智) brand. According to the Securities Times, the robots combine a self-developed f-VLA model, a vision-language-action model that turns camera input and spoken instructions into movements, with long-distance remote operation, coordination of many robots at once and teaching without programming. The company says it holds more than 100 intellectual property items.
The earlier Pre-A round was reported by Caijing Baodao on May 8 as led solely by the Minjiang Industrial Guidance Fund (闽江产业引导基金). The same piece said the team had secured RMB100 million in November 2025 through a stock-warrant arrangement with Xingyin Wealth Management, which it called the first of its kind in Fujian. The Securities Times said on October 23 that the Minjiang fund had invested around the time embodied AI was named a priority future industry for Fujian’s 15th Five-Year Plan.
The Fujian center is competing on price where peers raised far larger sums
The Fujian center says its Fuzhi robots cost less than RMB10,000 each to build, about 5% to 10% of comparable industry products. The Securities Times attributed the savings to a lightweight body made entirely by 3D printing. Caijing Baodao put the consumer price at RMB9,900 and up, and a company researcher told China News Service in April that the price had fallen from more than RMB100,000 to the thousand-yuan level.
At the 26th China International Fair for Investment and Trade in Xiamen in September, the center ran 30 Fuzhi robots together, which a September Securities Times report called the largest robot cluster display in Fujian so far, up from six robots in June. Lin told the paper the center already had domestic letters of intent worth tens of millions of yuan and inquiries from Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Other provincial centers have raised much more. Caixin Global reported in February that the Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics raised more than RMB700 million in its first round, from state-backed funds plus Baidu and Kyland Technology. Pedaily reported in January that the Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center closed a RMB450 million Pre-A round, taking its total to RMB2.2 billion in about 18 months. In Shanghai, the national-local co-built center opened a pilot production platform able to make 2,000 complete robots a year, IT Home reported in July. That model of state-backed regional hubs is part of a wider push that now includes an MIIT plan to monitor the humanoid robot industry.
The Minqing plant will show whether the low-cost model can scale
The next step is manufacturing. The Securities Times reported that the company’s Fuzhi production building in Minqing county, Fuzhou, is nearly complete, with planned capacity of 10,000 robots a year. The center says it has arranged more than 100,000 square meters of space in Fujian for embodied AI applications, including cross-strait projects, smart manufacturing, training and data collection.
The amount of the Pre-A+ round, the investors’ stakes and any first volume deliveries from Minqing are the figures to watch. A disclosed contract that turns the reported letters of intent into paid orders would be the clearest sign that the sub-RMB10,000 robot has found buyers.