Origin Quantum is China's leading quantum computing hardware company and the first to deliver a commercial quantum computer built entirely with domestic supply chains. Founded in 2017 in Hefei as a USTC spinout, it is China's largest independently operated superconducting quantum computer company. Origin Quantum has raised more than $800M from state funds and strategic investors and ranks 6th globally by quantum computing patent portfolio.

The company's most advanced platform is Origin Wukong-180, a fourth-generation superconducting system launched in Hefei in May 2026 with 180 computational qubits and 99% two-qubit gate fidelity, with global cloud access via the Origin Pilot cloud. It succeeds the third-generation Wukong-72. It delivered a 24-qubit system to a domestic customer in 2020 and has received major backing from Shenzhen Capital and the Anhui provincial government. Origin Quantum is pursuing an IPO on China's STAR Market at an implied valuation of about CNY 6.9 billion, roughly $950M, having raised $294M in total, including a $148M Series B from the Anhui provincial government and CAS.

In May 2025, Origin Quantum launched Tianji 4.0, a measurement and control system supporting more than 500 qubits that reduces specialized PhD-level setup work to standard engineering workflows, enabling mass-production-grade quantum systems. In February 2026, the company open-sourced its Origin Pilot quantum operating system.

The Origin Wukong cloud platform surpassed 20 million visits from 145 countries in its first year, with more than 530,000 completed quantum computing jobs.

Origin Quantum

Qboson is a Beijing-based company building coherent photonic quantum computers and quantum AI applications. In December 2025 it delivered China's first 1,000-qubit coherent photonic system, a special-purpose machine for optimization rather than a universal gate-model computer.

In early 2026 Qboson secured $145M in Series B funding led by Beijing Financial Holdings Group and ICBC Capital, its sixth public funding round. The company is delivering quantum computing solutions to the National Supercomputing Center in Chengdu and to China Mobile, and is building a quantum computing chip pilot production line. It has shifted strategically toward Quantum + AI applications, integrating quantum computing with AI workloads for enterprise and research customers.

Qboson

Baidu Quantum was the quantum computing division of Baidu Inc., China's leading internet company, based in Beijing within Baidu Research.

Baidu developed the Qianshi 36-qubit superconducting quantum processor in 2023 and the Liang Xi chip for error suppression, offered quantum cloud services, and built PaddleQuantum, an open-source quantum machine learning framework. In January 2024, Baidu closed its quantum computing division and donated its quantum laboratory, including the Qianshi hardware, to the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (BAQIS).

Baidu Quantum

TuringQ (图灵量子) is a Shanghai-based photonic quantum computing company founded in 2021 as a spinout from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It builds integrated photonic quantum chips. In early 2026 it raised a Series B of about 600M yuan, taking total funding above 1 billion yuan, roughly $140M, at a valuation near 7 billion yuan. The company develops continuous-variable quantum computing chips using silicon photonics fabrication and targets near-term applications in quantum simulation and machine learning. As one of China's leading photonic quantum hardware startups, it has received backing from Shanghai municipal government funds and private investors.

In 2025, TuringQ jointly developed a photonic quantum chip with CHIPX (Chip Hub for Integrated Photonics Xplore) that delivers 1,000-fold acceleration for complex problem-solving tasks. The company received the Leading Technology Award at the 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit.

TuringQ

CAS Cold Atom is a Wuhan-based quantum computing company founded in 2020. It develops neutral atom quantum computers based on technology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The company released Hanyuan-1, one of China's first commercial neutral atom quantum computing systems. Its focus is scalable neutral atom quantum processors that use optical tweezers and laser cooling to trap and manipulate individual atoms as qubits. CAS Cold Atom is part of China's effort to commercialize neutral atom quantum computing, competing with international players in a qubit modality known for its potential scalability and long coherence times.

Hanyuan-1 reached commercial deployment in 2025 as a 100-qubit system with 99.9% single-qubit and 98% two-qubit gate fidelity, and was exported to Pakistan. In May 2026, CAS Cold Atom unveiled Hanyuan-2, described as the world's first dual-core neutral-atom computer, pairing 100 rubidium-85 and 100 rubidium-87 qubits, though detailed performance benchmarks have not yet been published.

CAS Cold Atom

SpinQ develops compact quantum computers based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology, with a focus on educational and research applications. The Chinese company produces portable quantum computers, including the Gemini Mini and the Triangulum desktop system, which make quantum computing accessible to universities, research institutions, and educational programs, while also developing industrial quantum computing solutions. Its NMR systems are deployed at more than 200 universities globally.

SpinQ raised a 1 billion yuan (about $140 million) Series C funding round across 2025 and 2026 to accelerate its portable quantum computer and quantum education business lines. In April 2026, the company completed a CNY 600 million Series C+ round with investors Cornerstone Capital, Guotai Junan, and Zhejiang Caitong Capital, bringing the total raised in the prior three months to nearly CNY 1 billion. SpinQ is targeting an IPO on the Hong Kong or Shenzhen exchange within 18 months. The company's 2024 revenue exceeded CNY 50 million, with order growth above 130% in 2025, and superconducting systems now account for roughly 65% of revenue.

SpinQ

The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) hosts China's most advanced quantum technology research programme, led by Pan Jianwei, widely recognised as China's leading quantum scientist. USTC's quantum research covers all major areas of quantum technology and has produced several world-record milestones in quantum computing and quantum communications.

In quantum communications, USTC's milestones include the Micius quantum satellite in 2016, which demonstrated satellite-based quantum key distribution and quantum entanglement over 1,200 km, the quantum internet backbone connecting Beijing and Shanghai in 2022, and ground-station quantum teleportation experiments. In quantum computing, USTC achieved Jiuzhang photonic quantum advantage in 2020 and again in 2021 with Jiuzhang 2.0 and 3.0, and demonstrated Zuchongzhi superconducting quantum processors with 56-qubit and 66-qubit systems showing quantum computational advantage over classical simulation. In December 2024, USTC released Zuchongzhi 3.0, a 105-qubit superconducting processor rivaling Google's Willow chip and demonstrating quantum computational advantage. In December 2025, USTC published Zuchongzhi 3.2 with a claimed quantum error correction breakthrough, described as directly competing with Google's surface code QEC results.

USTC operates under China's National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and is closely affiliated with the CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information. The programme receives major funding from the Chinese government's quantum national strategy and is central to China's ambition to lead in quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Pan Jianwei's group at USTC produces the largest cohort of quantum researchers of any single institution in the world, with extensive collaboration across Chinese national laboratories and international partnerships.

USTC Quantum Research

China Telecom Quantum Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Telecom, headquartered in Hefei. In January 2025 it became the controlling shareholder of QuantumCTek, China's leading QKD company. China Telecom has committed more than CNY 10 billion of investment across its quantum programs.

The group operates the Tianyan quantum computing cloud platform, which had recorded more than 12 million user visits from over 50 countries by mid-2025. In October 2025 it deployed access to the 105-qubit Zuchongzhi-3 on the Tianyan platform. In December 2024 it co-developed the Tianyan-504, a 504-qubit superconducting quantum computer, with CAS and QuantumCTek.

China Telecom Quantum Group

QuantumCTek (SSE STAR: 688027) is China's leading quantum communications company and the only organization delivering both QKD hardware and domestically produced post-quantum cryptography silicon. It is based in Hefei, China and listed on the SSE STAR Market. QuantumCTek built the 2,000km Beijing-Shanghai quantum backbone network and has deployed QKD infrastructure for China's banking, government, and military sectors.

In November 2025, QuantumCTek released China's first high-performance post-quantum cryptography chip. In May 2025, QuantumCTek and China Telecom Quantum launched the first commercial QKD+PQC hybrid security system, combining quantum key distribution with PQC algorithms in a single deployed product that delivers quantum-encrypted keys via SIM cards to more than 5 million users, aimed at government and financial sector clients. QuantumCTek also demonstrated a 1,000km quantum-encrypted voice call over China's national quantum backbone network.

In 2025 and 2026, QuantumCTek released the ez-Q Engine 2.0, a superconducting quantum measurement and control system supporting more than 1,000 qubits at less than half the cost of comparable foreign technology, with a 10x integration improvement over its predecessor. It was validated on both the 504-qubit Tianyan-504 and the 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0, with plans to scale to more than 5,000 qubits and a next-generation system capable of 10,000 qubits with error correction. The company also commercialized its domestically developed EZ-Q Fridge dilution refrigerator for mass production, reducing reliance on imported cryogenic equipment.

In H1 2025, QuantumCTek reported revenue of CNY 121M, up 75% year over year, with quantum computing revenue of CNY 56M, up 284%. In January 2025, the China Telecom Quantum Group assumed a controlling stake in QuantumCTek, consolidating Chinese quantum communications and computing into a single state-owned enterprise.

QuantumCTek

CIQTEK (中科牛津) is a Chinese quantum sensing and diamond NV quantum technology company founded in 2019 by researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the University of Oxford. Based in Hefei, China, it manufactures and commercializes quantum sensing instruments, including diamond NV magnetometers, NMR relaxometers, and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometers for scientific, industrial, and biomedical use. The company produces commercially available desktop diamond NV sensors and has shipped instruments to more than 100 research institutions worldwide.

CIQTEK completed a pre-IPO Series D in October 2025 and received STAR Market IPO approval in December 2025, with an implied valuation of roughly CNY 11.7 billion (about $1.6B). It employs over 700 people. Its optically pumped magnetometer array can detect ultra-weak cardiac magnetic fields, and CIQTEK is regarded as the most mature quantum sensing company in China.

CIQTEK

Jiuzhang Quantum Technology is a Chinese photonic quantum computing company affiliated with Tsinghua University. It builds Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) photonic processors.

In May 2026, Jiuzhang Quantum published Jiuzhang 4.0 in Nature, a programmable photonic processor that generates 1,024 squeezed states across 8,176 optical modes, detects up to 3,050 photons, and completes photon sampling tasks in 25.6 microseconds. Classically simulating an equivalent computation on EI Capitan, the world's most powerful classical supercomputer, would take an estimated 10^42 years. The result stands as one of the strongest quantum advantage demonstrations to date.

Jiuzhang Quantum Technology

Liangyi Wanxiang (两仪万象), which uses the English brand name Atom to Infinity, is a Beijing-based quantum computing company founded in July 2024. It was incubated from Tsinghua University's atomic quantum computing team and works alongside the university's Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Physics, with theory, experiment, and commercialization split across the three groups.

The company builds neutral atom quantum computers, an approach that uses individual atoms held in light as physical qubits. Its core technology includes an optical metasurface that can generate tens of thousands of optical tweezers, a domestically developed compact atom source, and a dynamic rearrangement technique that produces defect-free programmable atomic arrays of several hundred qubits. The company is pursuing a vertically integrated strategy spanning core components, control systems, the quantum computer itself, and a planned cloud platform, and it has scheduled its first-generation machine for spring 2027.

In April 2026 the company announced a Series A round at the hundred-million-RMB level, equivalent to roughly 14 million dollars, co-led by the Beijing Information Industry Development Investment Fund and Shunwei Capital, with iFlytek, Junlian Capital, and Yizhuang State-owned Investment also taking part. Junlian Capital had previously led the company's angel round in August 2025, bringing total funding to about 16 million dollars.

Beyond hardware, Liangyi Wanxiang has moved into quantum and artificial intelligence software through a joint venture with iFlytek named Liangzhi Kaiwu, and it operates a Tianjin subsidiary focused on measurement and control systems.

Liangyi Wanxiang

MiQro Era (微观纪元), legally Hefei Micro-Era Digital Technology Co., Ltd., is a quantum computing software company founded in February 2022 and headquartered in Hefei, Anhui Province, with an additional presence in Shanghai. The founding team comes largely from the University of Science and Technology of China, alongside members from Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, and the University of Melbourne. The chief executive is Lu Chuan, a USTC condensed-matter physics PhD.

Rather than building quantum hardware, the company develops quantum algorithms and application software that run on top of available quantum and classical computing resources. Its core methods center on high-precision quantum chemistry simulation and quantum combinatorial optimization, often combined with artificial intelligence. The company targets industries where molecular design is the bottleneck, especially biopharmaceuticals and advanced materials, and with Alphana Biotech it released the MiQro RNA platform, which both firms describe as China's first quantum-computing-based mRNA drug design platform.

MiQro Era closed a Pre-A round of tens of millions of yuan in June 2024, co-led by Hefei High-tech Investment and Kunlun Capital. In 2025 the Shenzhen-listed company Zhite New Materials came on board as a strategic shareholder, and the two set up a joint venture to commercialize quantum-plus-AI materials research. In January 2026 the company announced a Series A of nearly 100 million yuan, which is roughly 14 million dollars, led by Rong Yi Investment with participation from Spinel Capital.

Although a 2026 funding list tagged MiQro Era as a superconducting company, it is a quantum software and applications firm, not a superconducting hardware maker. Where it touches superconducting systems it does so through partners such as the Quantum Tech Yangtze Delta Industrial Innovation Center, which supplies hardware support while MiQro Era contributes the algorithm and software laye

MiQro Era

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLO) is a Chinese-headquartered technology company that started in holographic AR services and has since directed significant capital toward Bitcoin quantum-resistance and quantum key distribution research.

In May 2026 the company announced a Bitcoin post-quantum security solution that combines QKD with multivariate-algebraic strong-designated-verifier signatures. A lightweight quantum-key verification plugin runs at the Bitcoin script layer alongside a separate QKD channel, so upgraded and non-upgraded nodes can interoperate without a base-layer hard fork. The system pins quantum keys to UTXOs and uses distributed quantum storage across nodes, reconstructing keys through entanglement exchange. MicroCloud disclosed cash reserves above $390 million and a planned $400 million investment in Bitcoin PQ protocol work, QKD R&D, and quantum holography. Update 2026-06-02: MicroCloud Hologram built dedicated hardware to efficiently simulate quantum algorithms, overcoming simulation limitations. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qubit-simulation-bottleneck-holos-design/ Update 2026-05-12: MicroCloud Hologram introduced a quantum key distribution solution to address security challenges for Bitcoin. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/quantum-key-distribution-microcloud-hologram/ Update 2026-05-05: MicroCloud Hologram introduced an algorithm using classical Decision Diagram data structures to represent and synthesize quantum states. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/holo-applies-classical-decision-diagrams/ Update 2026-03-04: MicroCloud Hologram developed a Quantum Recurrent Neural Network technology for sequential learning. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/microcloud-hologram-quantum-neural-network/ Update 2026-02-19: MicroCloud Hologram introduced a quantum intelligent consensus algorithm to enhance the security and scalability of financial internet nodes in edge computing networks. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/microcloud

MicroCloud Hologram

Taiyi Quantum, registered as Taiyi Quantum Life (Shanghai) Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. (太一量生（上海）量子科技有限公司), is a neutral-atom quantum computing company founded in January 2026 and based in the Xuhui District of Shanghai. Within two months of its founding it raised one of the largest early-stage rounds in China's neutral-atom sector.

The company was started by Liu Hongbin, who serves as chairman and chief technology officer. Liu has more than twelve years of quantum computing experience and was previously the chief quantum architect at Microsoft, where he led work on the neutral-atom strategy and the collaboration with Atom Computing. The chief executive is Fang Zhenghao, a former managing partner with close to fifteen years investing in frontier technology. Taiyi has chosen ytterbium atoms for its qubits, a decision Liu describes as trading engineering difficulty for scientific advantage, since ytterbium offers faster gate operations, erasable errors, and a path to photonic interconnection in the telecom band.

In March 2026 Taiyi announced an angel round of over 100 million yuan, roughly 15 million dollars, co-led by the Shanghai Future Industry Fund and iFlytek Venture Capital. Other backers include JinkoSolar Holdings, Galaxy General, Yabang Chemical, and Houxue Capital. The company says the money will go toward research and development, growing its team, and constructing its first quantum computer.

Taiyi's stated roadmap aims to trap on the order of 50,000 atoms on a single platform and convert them into about 300 logical qubits over the coming years, targeting applications in cryptographic security, chemical and drug simulation, and quantum machine learning. As a company founded only months ago, Taiyi has not yet demonstrated working hardware or published peer-reviewed qubit results, so its qubit figures remain forward-looking targets rather than achievements.

Taiyi Quantum

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WIMI) is a Beijing-based holographic AR and cloud-services company with an active corporate quantum-AI research programme. Its quantum portfolio spans Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for multi-channel supervised learning (MC-QCNN), Repeated Amplitude Encoding (RAE) for converting classical data into quantum states, hybrid quantum-classical Inception architectures for image classification, MLQES machine-learning-based quantum error suppression, and QRAM-style memory designs. Its published results target classification accuracy on MNIST and medical imaging benchmarks.

WiMi frames its quantum-AI work as complementary to its holographic and metaverse business rather than as a hardware play. It builds algorithms and models designed to run on existing third-party quantum simulators and devices. Update 2026-06-15: WiMi Hologram Cloud developed a Quantum Kernel Convolution scheme that allows it to run on current NISQ devices. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/quantum-kernel-convolution-wimis-runs/ Update 2026-05-12: WiMi Hologram Cloud's Repeated Amplitude Encoding boosts the ability of quantum neural networks to map data to complex spaces. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/quantum-expressive-power-wimis-tech/ Update 2026-05-06: WiMi Hologram Cloud announced a Multi-Scale Fusion Quantum Deep Convolutional Neural Network to address NLP challenges. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wimi-quantum-multi-scale-deep-convolutional/ Update 2026-02-19: WiMi Hologram Cloud introduced a novel hybrid quantum-classical Inception neural network model for image classification. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wimi-quantum-computing-image-classification/ Update 2026-02-09: WiMi Hologram Cloud released a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Network technology for practical machine learning applications. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wimi-quantum-computing-quantum-computing/

WiMi Hologram Cloud

XtalPi (晶泰科技) is a Chinese quantum-enhanced AI drug discovery company that combines quantum chemistry simulation with AI to speed up pharmaceutical R&D. Founded in 2014 as an MIT spinout, it is based in Shenzhen, China, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 2362.HK.

The company's quantum-classical hybrid platform runs on quantum cloud services and classical HPC for crystal structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and ADMET property prediction. XtalPi has raised more than $500M from investors including Tencent, Alphabet, Sequoia China, and SoftBank. Its customers include Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and major Chinese pharmaceutical companies. In June 2025, XtalPi expanded its collaboration with Pfizer on a next-generation molecular modeling platform, and in August 2025 it signed a drug-discovery collaboration with DoveTree Medicines worth up to $6B in upfront, milestone, and royalty payments. XtalPi reported 2025 revenue of about RMB 803M, up roughly 200% year over year. Update 2026-03-03: XtalPi's AI and robotics platform supported the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical trial for an investigational therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and Vanishing White Matter disease. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/xtalpi-ai-cmt-therapy-aid/

XtalPi

Alibaba Quantum was the quantum computing research division of Alibaba Group, established in 2015. It developed quantum computing technologies, quantum cloud services, and quantum algorithms for practical applications, operating quantum simulators and providing quantum computing access through Alibaba Cloud. The division also conducted fundamental research in quantum information science, quantum algorithms, and quantum hardware, with the aim of advancing China's quantum computing capabilities and folding quantum technologies into Alibaba's cloud and AI services.

In 2025 Alibaba shut down its DAMO Academy Quantum Laboratory and donated the lab equipment and technology to Zhejiang University, exiting direct quantum computing R&D. Roughly 30 staff departed as part of the closure.

Alibaba Quantum

Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences is a government research laboratory for quantum information science, serving as a major national quantum research center focused on quantum computing and cryptography. The institute conducts fundamental and applied quantum research. BAQIS coordinates Beijing's quantum technology ecosystem, conducts quantum research, and trains China's quantum workforce as part of China's national quantum technology strategy.

Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences

The Beijing Quantum Technology Incubator supports quantum startups and small and medium-sized enterprises through a 200 million RMB Quantum Industry Development Fund from the Beijing municipal government. It provides funding, facilities, and business support to quantum technology companies.

The incubator helps commercialize quantum research from Beijing's universities and institutes, letting quantum startups scale and establishing Beijing as a leading center for quantum technology innovation. Investment activity continued through 2025, with portfolio companies making progress in technology development and commercialization. The incubator's focus remains on supporting quantum startups with funding and strategic guidance.

Beijing Quantum Technology Incubator

CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information is a Chinese Academy of Sciences quantum research lab based at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), serving as a major quantum computing and communication research center. The laboratory has produced quantum research. CAS Key Laboratory has been instrumental in China's quantum technology achievements including quantum satellite communications, long-distance QKD, and superconducting quantum computing advances.

CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information

China Mobile Limited is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Beijing. It is the world's largest mobile network operator by subscribers. The company deploys quantum communication networks across China, including quantum key distribution (QKD) infrastructure and quantum-safe telecommunications systems.

China Mobile works with Chinese quantum technology companies to advance practical quantum communications for secure mobile services and quantum internet development, and it invests in quantum networking research that supports China's national quantum communications infrastructure. The company serves Chinese telecommunications markets, including enterprise customers, government agencies, and critical infrastructure operators that require quantum-safe communications. Through this work, China Mobile contributes to China's quantum technology leadership and to quantum communications at scale for the telecommunications industry.

China Mobile

China Telecommunications Corporation, known as China Telecom, is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Beijing. As part of China's national quantum strategy, the company deploys quantum communication infrastructure, including quantum key distribution (QKD) networks, and has demonstrated quantum-encrypted video conferencing and quantum-secure communications for government and enterprise clients.

China Telecom works with Chinese quantum technology providers to advance practical quantum communications across China and invests in quantum networking research that supports quantum internet development. The company serves telecommunications markets that include enterprises, government, and critical infrastructure operators requiring quantum-safe communications, and it contributes to China's quantum technology leadership through large-scale quantum communications networks and quantum-safe telecommunications infrastructure.

China Telecom

China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (China Unicom) is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator founded in 1994 and headquartered in Beijing. The company deploys quantum communication networks, including quantum key distribution (QKD) infrastructure, as part of China's national quantum communications strategy.

China Unicom collaborates with Chinese quantum technology companies to advance practical quantum communications deployments for secure telecommunications, and it invests in quantum networking research that supports quantum internet development and quantum-safe communications infrastructure. The company serves Chinese telecommunications markets, including enterprise customers, government agencies, and critical infrastructure that require quantum-safe communications, and it contributes to China's quantum communications networks at national scale.

China Unicom

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is China's national academy for natural sciences, founded in 1949 and headquartered in Beijing. It is the institutional umbrella for the country's leading quantum research, including the CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics (CEQIQ), the Hefei National Laboratory, and quantum programmes at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

CAS-affiliated teams led by Pan Jianwei delivered the Micius quantum-communications satellite in 2016, the 4,600 km Beijing-Shanghai fibre-plus-satellite quantum-secured backbone, the Jiuzhang photonic quantum-advantage experiments, and the Zuchongzhi superconducting processor series. The CAS quantum portfolio spans QKD network engineering, photonic and superconducting hardware, atomic clocks, and quantum sensing.

Recent results have continued to set records. In March 2025, a USTC team led by Pan Jianwei and Zhu Xiaobo unveiled Zuchongzhi 3.0, a 105-qubit superconducting processor, claiming a random circuit sampling speed far beyond any classical supercomputer. In December 2025 the group demonstrated quantum error correction below the fault-tolerance threshold on Zuchongzhi 3.2 using a distance-7 surface code. In May 2026, CAS published Jiuzhang 4.0 in Nature, a photonic Gaussian boson sampling prototype that detected 3,050 photons, though like the earlier Jiuzhang machines it is a sampling device rather than a universal quantum computer. Update 2026-04-06: Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed a quantum bus using engineered virtual photons to connect spin and superconducting modules. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/chinese-academy-sciences-universal-gate/

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering focuses on quantum communication and quantum computing device development. The provincial research lab advances quantum technologies in southern China. The laboratory works on quantum communication networks, quantum cryptography devices, and quantum computing hardware to support Guangdong Province's quantum technology industry development.

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering

Huawei Cloud operates the HiQ Quantum Computing Cloud Platform with headquarters in Shenzhen. The platform provides cloud-based access to quantum computing simulators and quantum programming tools for developers and researchers. Huawei Cloud Quantum develops quantum algorithms and quantum-classical hybrid solutions for enterprise applications, contributing to China's quantum computing ecosystem through cloud infrastructure.

Huawei Cloud Quantum

Hyqubit is a Beijing-based quantum computing company focused on ion trap technology for quantum processors. The company is developing trapped ion quantum computers as part of China's diversified quantum computing hardware strategy, pursuing ion trap technology alongside the country's superconducting and photonic quantum computing programs. Hyqubit represents China's multi-modality approach to achieving quantum computing capabilities across different hardware architectures. Its HYQ-B100, a second-generation trapped-ion system with more than 100 qubits, is commercially available through HYQ Cloud. In July 2025, Hyqubit closed a Series A of several hundred million RMB co-led by Legend Capital.

Hyqubit

Jinan Quantum Technology Institute is a regional quantum research and commercialization institute in Shandong Province supporting quantum industry development. The institute bridges research and commercialization. Jinan Institute supports quantum technology companies, conducts applied quantum research, and develops quantum applications relevant to regional industries including manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications.

Jinan Quantum Technology Institute

Kunfeng Quantum Technology is a Shanghai-based quantum technology company specializing in the development of and consulting on quantum computing, quantum communication, and information technology. Headquartered at Room 205, Building 15, No.498 Guoshoujing Road, Shanghai, it contributes to China's expanding quantum technology ecosystem.

Kunfeng operates alongside established Chinese quantum companies such as QuantumCTek and Origin Quantum, serving China's National Quantum Mission and domestic quantum technology programs. It provides quantum technology solutions, quantum computing research, and quantum information technology consulting for Chinese enterprises and research institutions, representing the country's growing private-sector quantum innovation across mainland markets.

Kunfeng Quantum Technology

MicroAlgo Inc. (NASDAQ: MLGO) is a Cayman Islands-incorporated, Shenzhen-headquartered company providing central processing algorithms, quantum research, and data intelligence services. MicroAlgo publishes a steady stream of quantum-algorithm research covering quantum neural networks, quantum error correction, hybrid classical-quantum optimisation, quantum computer vision, and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for quantum circuit design. The company jointly established a Micro-Consciousness Quantum Research Center with WiMi Hologram Cloud. Update 2026-05-28: MicroAlgo enhanced its LSQb algorithm by integrating lattice cryptography for secure information transmission. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/microalgo-integrates-lattice-cryptography-lsqb/ Update 2026-05-20: MicroAlgo Inc. developed a quantum image edge extraction algorithm that encodes 8-bit grayscale and positional data into quantum superposition states. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qubit-superposition-states-8-bit-grayscale/ Update 2026-05-05: MicroAlgo enhanced transaction security by integrating a quantum blockchain architecture utilizing cyclic QSC and QKD. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/microalgo-integrates-quantum-encryption-four-layer/ Update 2026-04-15: MicroAlgo developed a quantum algorithm to perform a full adder operation using CPU registers and quantum gates. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/microalgo-develops-quantum-adder-technology-for-faster-computing/

MicroAlgo

Peking University Quantum Materials and Devices Center is a major research center for quantum materials, devices, and computing, contributing talent to Chinese quantum companies. The center conducts fundamental research on quantum materials and devices. The center's research spans topological materials, superconducting materials, and quantum devices, providing scientific foundations for China's quantum hardware development and training the next generation of quantum scientists.

Peking University Quantum Materials and Devices Center

Qindom develops quantum intelligence applications for software development. Its platform and intellectual property apply quantum computing to algorithms and models for combinatorial optimization problems. Qindom's applications include prediction for financial investment, route planning for logistics, recommendation for e-commerce, and customer churn prevention for telecommunications and insurance.

The company has raised $2M in funding and competes with firms such as Quantum Benchmark, 1QBit, D-Wave Quantum, QC Ware, and Xanadu. Through these practical applications, Qindom aims to let users apply quantum intelligence to real-world optimization challenges across multiple industries.

Qindom

Guoke Quantum (国科量子) is a Shanghai-based quantum communication company developing quantum key distribution (QKD) systems and quantum secure communication networks. It produces Q-NET BOX quantum communication products for enterprise and government customers that need secure data transmission. As part of China's quantum communication ecosystem, the company works on practical quantum cryptography for banking, government, and critical infrastructure, and contributes to China's national quantum communication network connecting major cities through quantum-secured links.

Through 2025, Guoke Quantum continues to expand its quantum communication product portfolio and to deploy quantum-secured networks across China, with a focus on commercializing QKD technology for enterprise customers.

Guoke Quantum

Longxun Quantum (龙讯旷腾) is a Beijing-based quantum software company that develops PWmat, a plane-wave pseudopotential software package for quantum mechanical simulations of materials. The company provides computational tools for density functional theory (DFT) calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, and materials property predictions used in semiconductor, battery, and catalyst research. PWmat uses GPU acceleration for high-performance quantum mechanical calculations, letting researchers simulate larger systems and longer timescales than traditional CPU-based approaches. Longxun also operates MCloud, a supercomputing cloud platform for materials simulation.

The company serves academic research institutions and industrial R&D departments that need advanced materials simulation capabilities. Through 2025, it continues to enhance PWmat and expand its user base in the materials science and chemistry research communities, with a focus on improving simulation accuracy and computational efficiency.

Longxun Quantum

Matrix Opto, known in China as Shenzhen Matrix Optoelectronics Technology (深圳市矩阵光电技术有限公司), is a Shenzhen-based maker of fiber array units, the passive optical components that align and fix optical fibers with micron precision for high-density optical-module interconnection and optical-chip coupling. Its products target the 800G and 1.6T data-center optics and co-packaged optics markets.

This is an optical-communications components supplier, not a quantum computing company. In July 2025 the listed laser-systems firm JPT (杰普特, Shanghai STAR Market ticker 688025) acquired a controlling stake, and by September 2025 its fiber-array products were shipping in volume to leading domestic optical-module makers.

A figure of 29 million dollars circulated on a 2026 quantum-startup funding list, but that round could not be verified and the company's core business is data-center and telecom optics rather than quantum hardware. It is included here as a quantum-adjacent components supplier whose fiber-array technology can serve photonic and quantum-photonic systems.

Matrix Opto

Nanjing University National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures conducts research on quantum materials and superconducting quantum circuits for quantum computing applications. The laboratory investigates quantum phenomena in solid-state systems. Research focuses on developing new quantum materials, understanding quantum many-body physics, and creating quantum devices for computing and sensing applications.

Nanjing University National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures

National Laboratory for Quantum Information Sciences is a government-led national laboratory in Hefei, the epicenter of China's quantum research, led by Pan Jianwei and USTC researchers. The lab serves as China's premier quantum research facility. The National Laboratory conducts fundamental quantum research, develops quantum technologies, and coordinates China's national quantum science programs across quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum sensing.

National Laboratory for Quantum Information Sciences

Paddle Quantum is Baidu's quantum machine learning platform, providing development kits for building and training quantum neural networks (QNNs). It supports combinatorial optimization, quantum chemistry, and other quantum applications, and integrates with Baidu's PaddlePaddle deep learning framework to enable hybrid quantum-classical machine learning workflows.

The platform offers pre-built quantum circuits, optimization algorithms, and simulation tools, letting researchers and developers experiment with quantum machine learning without access to physical quantum hardware. It also includes tutorials, documentation, and example applications spanning a range of use cases. Baidu develops Paddle Quantum as part of its quantum computing research program, with the goal of making quantum machine learning more accessible to the wider AI and machine learning community.

Paddle Quantum

QDoor provides quantum computing cloud services, quantum software development platforms, and quantum algorithms for Chinese enterprises and research institutions. The company offers quantum computing as a service (QCaaS) with access to superconducting quantum processors, develops quantum programming frameworks and tools, and focuses on applications in optimization, machine learning, financial modeling, and drug discovery for the Chinese market.

QDoor

Qasky Quantum Technology is a Chinese quantum communication company that specializes in quantum key distribution systems, quantum secure communication networks, and quantum cryptography solutions for enterprise and government use.

The company develops quantum communication infrastructure, including quantum key distribution hardware, quantum network management software, and secure communication protocols for building quantum-safe networks across China. It works with Chinese telecommunications companies and government agencies to deploy quantum communication networks for national security applications, contributing to China's national quantum communication infrastructure and to practical quantum cryptography for securing sensitive data across finance, healthcare, and government communications.

Qasky Quantum Technology

Qike Quantum (QuDoor/Guokaike Quantum Technology) designs quantum communication devices and quantum computers for military, government, finance, telecom, and power sectors in China. The Beijing-based company develops quantum hardware for secure communications and quantum computing. Qike Quantum serves China's national quantum technology strategy by providing quantum equipment for critical infrastructure and government applications requiring quantum-level security and computing capabilities.

Qike Quantum

Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology Quantum Division is a key research institute under China's national quantum strategy developing quantum information technologies. The Chinese Academy of Sciences institute conducts quantum research. The institute works on superconducting quantum circuits, quantum communication devices, and quantum sensors, supporting Shanghai's emergence as a major quantum technology research and commercialization hub.

Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology Quantum Division

Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences is a joint initiative by Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and other institutions for collaborative quantum research. The consortium coordinates quantum research across Shanghai's leading universities. The center provides shared research infrastructure, facilitates collaboration, and develops quantum talent to establish Shanghai as a leading global quantum research hub.

Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences

Shenzhen Capital Quantum Investment Fund is a state-owned venture fund that invests in quantum technology and provides capital to Chinese quantum technology companies. It led Origin Quantum's $148 million Series B funding round. The fund reflects government-backed efforts to accelerate quantum technology commercialization and establish China as a global quantum computing leader.

Through 2025, the fund has continued active investment in quantum technology companies, with portfolio companies showing progress in technology development and commercialization. Its focus is on supporting quantum startups through both funding and strategic guidance.

Shenzhen Capital Quantum Investment Fund

Tencent Quantum Lab is based in Shenzhen and intends to become the conduit of fundamental theory with practical applications in quantum information technology. The lab conducts research in quantum algorithms, quantum AI, quantum chemistry, and develops quantum computing cloud platforms. Tencent Quantum Lab collaborates with leading research institutions to advance quantum computing towards practical applications in China's tech industry.

Tencent Quantum Lab

Tsinghua University Quantum Information Center is a leading university quantum research center that has incubated SpinQ and other quantum startups. China's top engineering university conducts quantum research. The center has produced significant quantum computing research and serves as an important source of quantum talent and technology transfer, spinning out quantum technology companies and training researchers for China's quantum industry.

Tsinghua University Quantum Information Center

Wuhan National Laboratory for Quantum Science is a national-level quantum research facility focusing on quantum optics and quantum information processing. The laboratory conducts advanced quantum research. Research areas include quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum precision measurement, contributing to China's national quantum technology capabilities and training quantum researchers.

Wuhan National Laboratory for Quantum Science

XT Quantech is a Chinese quantum technology company developing quantum random number generators and quantum communication systems for security applications. The company provides QRNG devices and quantum key distribution solutions for government, military, and enterprise customers in China. XT Quantech is part of China's growing quantum security industry, supporting the national strategy to build quantum-safe communications infrastructure and protect sensitive information from quantum computer threats.

XT Quantech

ZTE Quantum is the quantum technology division of ZTE Corporation, a major Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer. The division develops quantum key distribution (QKD) systems and quantum-encrypted transport solutions for telecommunications infrastructure.

ZTE has been integrating quantum encryption technologies into its network equipment to provide quantum-secure communications for carriers and enterprise customers. The company participates in China's national quantum communication network initiatives and develops quantum-safe solutions for 5G and next-generation networks. Through 2025, ZTE has continued advancing its quantum-encrypted network solutions and participating in China's expanding quantum communication infrastructure projects.

ZTE Quantum

Zhejiang University Quantum Computing Lab is a major university quantum research laboratory developing quantum algorithms and hardware. The Hangzhou-based lab conducts fundamental and applied quantum computing research. The lab collaborates with industry partners on quantum computing applications and trains graduate students in quantum information science, contributing to China's quantum workforce development.

Zhejiang University Quantum Computing Lab

Zhongwei Daxin (中微达信) is a Chengdu-based quantum technology company founded in 2017 that specializes in quantum computing measurement and control systems. It develops precision electronic instruments and control hardware for operating quantum computers, including signal generators, readout electronics, and synchronization systems for superconducting and other qubit modalities.

The company has received funding from prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital China and Matrix Partners China, reflecting confidence in China's growing quantum computing ecosystem. Its customers include quantum computing research institutions and commercial quantum computer manufacturers that need high-performance control electronics.

Through 2025, Zhongwei Daxin has continued to expand its quantum control electronics portfolio, focusing on scalable solutions for larger quantum processors and improved signal fidelity for high-quality qubit operations.

Zhongwei Daxin

Guosheng Quantum (Anhui Province Guosheng Quantum Technology Co Ltd) is China's first company dedicated entirely to quantum industrial sensing. Headquartered in Hefei, the company applies quantum precision measurement technology to manufacturing and industrial environments. Guosheng completed a Series A funding round with Chuangu Capital in early 2025.

Guosheng Quantum

Kewei Quantum is a Chinese quantum sensing startup and the first commercial spinout from BAQIS (Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, opened 2017). The company develops atomic clocks and Rydberg atom electromagnetic sensors for precision timing and sensing applications. Based in Beijing, Kewei Quantum targets applications in defense, navigation, and communications infrastructure.

Kewei Quantum

LogicBit is a Chinese superconducting quantum computing company spun out of Zhejiang University's superconducting qubit research team in Hangzhou, whose founders contributed to a 100-qubit superconducting chip published in Nature in August 2025. Prior hardware includes Mogan-1 (special-purpose) and Tianmu-1 (36-qubit general-purpose, accessible via JanusQ Cloud). LogicBit completed a Series A round in November 2025 backed by a government-linked science park fund, with a focus on quantum error correction and logical qubit development.

LogicBit

MatriQ is a Chinese neutral-atom quantum computing startup widely believed to be a commercial spinout of the USTC-Shanghai AI Lab team associated with Pan Jianwei's group, which set world-record neutral-atom array performance in 2024. The company builds full-stack neutral-atom quantum computers using dynamic optical tweezer arrays and Rydberg physics. MatriQ completed a seed funding round in November 2025, backed by L2F Light to Future, Qiancheng Capital, and Oriza Seed. Based in China.

Quantum Computing Companies in China