Free housing, offices, and up to $720,000 subsidies: Chinese cities go all in on OpenClaw startups

Mihaela Păun

Free housing. Discounted office space. Cash subsidies worth up to $720,000. These are some of the perks local governments in China would offer to lure startups and developers building on OpenClaw. In the high-tech zone of Wuxi in Eastern China, Chinese officials announced in a policy draft published on the city's official WeChat account on Monday that it is supporting what Chinese developers call "raising the lobster" — a nickname for deploying OpenClaw agents to perform automated tasks. The