The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) said on Friday that visitor arrivals to the SAR rose by 14.7 percent year-on-year in 2025.
A total of 40,069,360 visitor arrivals were recorded in the year, the statistics department said, adding that same-day visitors and overnight visitors rose by 24.6 percent and 3.1 percent year on year, respectively. Regarding the source of visitors, the DSEC noted that visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 18.5 percent year on year, while those from Hong Kong SAR and China's Taiwan region increased by 1.7 percent and 19.4 percent, respectively. International visitors increased by 13.7 percent year on year to 2,755,474. Land entry continued to be the primary mode of arrival, seeing more than 33.084 million inbound visitors, which accounted for 82.6 percent of the total and reflected a year-on-year increase of 19.1 percent.
Macao sees 14.7 pct rise in visitor arrivals in 2025
China's domestically developed T1200-grade ultra-high-strength carbon fiber holds broad application prospects in strategic emerging industries, according to its developer.
The country on Wednesday unveiled SYT80, a domestically developed T1200-grade ultra-high-strength carbon fiber, marking a major breakthrough in the China's high-performance carbon fiber technology.
This new material has achieved a hundred-tonne-level annual production capacity, making China the first nation to mass-produce this caliber of fiber, according to its developer, China National Building Material Group Co., Ltd. (CNBM).
Featuring lightweight and high-strength properties, the fiber's diameter is less than one-tenth that of a human hair, and yet its tensile strength is 10 times that of ordinary steel and its density is only one-quarter of steel's.
"Compared with the previous-generation T1100, T1200 has seen its tensile strength increase by more than 14 percent. With its ultimate lightweight and high-strength characteristics, T1200 can achieve weight reduction of over 10 percent for equipment in related fields. It holds broad application prospects in strategic emerging industries such as commercial aerospace, low-altitude economy, and humanoid robots," said Chen Qiufei, head of T1200 ultra-high-strength carbon fiber research and development at Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Company, a subsidiary of China National Building Material Group.
The new material also possesses many other outstanding properties.
As the fiber undergoes carbonization at nearly 2,000 degrees Celsius during production, its chemical properties remain stable and its corrosion resistance is excellent.
This fiber material also features strong fire and flame retardant properties, offering good safety performance.
The development of this fiber material demonstrates China's fully independent and controllable capabilities across the entire industrial chain of high-performance carbon fiber, spanning technologies and equipment as well as the transition from laboratory research to mass production, said Zhou Yuxian, chairman of CNBM.
China's high-strength carbon fiber shows strong potential in strategic emerging industries
