China's new quality productive forces have brought tangible development outcomes, Kang Yi, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said Monday at a press conference in Beijing.
China's economy kept expanding in 2025, with the GDP reaching 140.19 trillion yuan (about 20.13 trillion U.S. dollars), up five percent year-on-year, Kang said.
Kang pointed out that the achievement reflects effective implementation of the country's new development philosophy, featuring high-tech innovation, coordination, green development, openness and shared benefits with partners.
In 2025, China's research and development spending intensity surpassed the average level of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries for the first time.
Its global innovation index ranking entered the top ten for the first time. Digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G were flourishing. All the progress provided strong support for the leap of the country's economic aggregate in the year, Kang said.
Breakthroughs were made in frontier fields such as AI, quantum technology, and brain-computer interfaces. A number of major scientific-technological research achievements emerged, and new quality productive forces continued to develop and grow in 2025.
In 2025, the value added from digital product manufacturing industries above the designated size grew by 9.3 percent year on year, with server and industrial robot output recording rapid growth.
Green electricity, green energy and the green economy boomed in the year, and the share of new energy vehicles in domestic new car sales exceeded 50 percent, he said.
[China's GDP] surpassed 140 trillion yuan in 2025, marking a truly remarkable achievement. This fully demonstrates the steady progress, resilience under pressure, and vitality driven by quality improvement and innovation of the Chinese economy. The concept of new quality productive forces has evolved from a consensus into tangible development outcomes, making economic growth higher in quality and more sustainable," Kang said.
China's new quality productive forces bring tangible outcomes: official
