Wuhan officially released the metaverse industry plan, with content related to NFTs removed

ChainCatcher news, the Wuhan Municipal People's Government has officially released the "Notice on Issuing the Implementation Plan for Promoting the Innovative Development of the Metaverse Industry in Wuhan (2022-2025)." The implementation plan mentions the innovative development of the metaverse industry, aiming to build more than 2 metaverse industry bases and more than 3 key metaverse platforms at a high level by 2025, focusing on key industry sectors to create more than 50 typical metaverse application scenarios and projects, cultivate and introduce more than 200 metaverse innovation enterprises, and establish a pilot area and core area for the innovative development of the metaverse in China with coordinated development of innovation chains, industrial chains, and value chains.

The key tasks of the plan focus on strengthening metaverse technology innovation, encouraging metaverse content creation, accelerating the cultivation of metaverse products, and promoting metaverse industry applications. It emphasizes organizational guarantees and policy support, while strengthening data management alongside focusing on carrier construction and improving infrastructure.

Compared to the "Implementation Plan for the Innovative Development of the Metaverse Industry in Wuhan (2022-2024) (Draft for Comments)" publicly solicited by Wuhan in August 2022, the officially published plan has undergone significant modifications in content. The content related to NFTs, which attracted some public attention in the draft for comments, has been removed from the official plan. (source link)