Beijing has expanded its consumer trade-in policy to include subsidies for the purchase of 10 categories of smart products.

On July 23rd, the Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau announced that individual consumers in the city will receive subsidies when buying smart door locks, smart cameras, smart beds, and embodied AI robots, among other items.

Each person is eligible for a subsidy on one item per category, with the maximum subsidy per item capped at 1,500 yuan.

The eligible product list includes smart door locks, smart cameras, smart floor cleaners (including smart mops and smart vacuum cleaners), smart toilets (including smart toilet seats), digital cameras (including action cameras), smart headphones, whole-home smart hubs (including smart home servers and gateways), smart beds (including smart mattresses), smart electric wheelchairs, and embodied AI robots (including companion robots, robotic dogs, exoskeleton robots, and elderly care robots).

To qualify, the newly added products must possess smart functionality and have a standardized national product code. For items with energy or water efficiency ratings, they must meet the highest level 1 standard.

The subsidy amount is set at 15% of the final sales price after all other discounts are applied. The limit remains at one subsidized item per person per category, with a maximum of 1,500 yuan per item.

The subsidy for these 10 product categories will be applied as an instant discount at the point of sale. Consumers must first complete real-name verification on the "Jingtong" mobile app.

They can then access the "Smart Home Subsidy" section to claim a voucher code for their chosen product category. This code is used when purchasing from participating retailers to receive the instant discount, which applies equally to both online and in-store purchases.

Products receiving the subsidy must be unboxed and verified to match the sales order, and consumers are required to cooperate by providing photos for verification.

This new initiative follows a policy released by the Beijing Commerce Bureau in February, which outlined a trade-in subsidy program for home appliances and a purchase subsidy for new digital and smart products, effective until 2026.

That earlier policy provided subsidies for six categories of major home appliances meeting the highest energy or water efficiency standards, as well as for four categories of digital and smart products with a unit price not exceeding 6,000 yuan.