China's economy sees high-quality development through innovation in 2025: statistical communique

China's economy experienced the high-quality development through innovation in 2025, which marks the final year of the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025),according to a communique released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday.

The communique on China's economic and social development in 2025 focuses on the country's innovation-led and high-quality economic development.

The construction of a modernized industrial system has been continuously advanced, new strides have been taken in reform and opening up, progress has been made in defusing risks in key areas, people's well-being has been more effectively ensured, and the overall social situation has been kept stable, said the communique.

China has gotten off to a good start on the new journey toward the Second Centenary Goal, it said.

China's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025 grew 5 percent year-on-year to reach a record of 140.1879 trillion yuan (about 20.44 trillion U.S. dollars), meeting the annual target of around 5 percent, said the communique.

In breakdown, the added value of the primary,secondary and tertiary industries stood at 9.3347 trillion yuan, 49.9653 trillion yuan and 80.8879 trillion yuan, respectively, reflecting year-on-year increases of 3.9 percent, 4.5 percent and 5.4 percent, and accounting for 6.7 percent, 35.6 percent and 57.7 percent of GDP. Final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation and net exports of goods and services contributed to the growth of GDP by 2.6 percentage points, 0.8 percentage points and 1.6 percentage points, respectively.

Looking back on 2025, China's GDP saw year-on-year growth of 5.4 percent, 5.2 percent, 4.8 percent and 4.5 percent in the first, second, third and fourth quarters, respectively, and per capita GDP in 2025 came in at 99,665 yuan, an increase of 5.1 percent over the previous year. China's Gross National Income (GNI) and per capita labor productivity reached 139.370 trillion yuan and 184,413 yuan, respectively, reflecting increases of 5.1 percent and 6.1 percent over the previous year.

China's economy sees high-quality development through innovation in 2025: statistical communique

China's economy sees high-quality development through innovation in 2025: statistical communique

China's economy sees high-quality development through innovation in 2025: statistical communique

China's economy sees high-quality development through innovation in 2025: statistical communique

Heavy rains prompted several regions across China to activate emergency responses on Sunday, with warnings of possible disasters caused by days of intense rains in some areas.

The meteorological service of Nanning City, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, issued an orange lightning warning on Sunday morning.

It warned that most urban areas of Nanning will be affected by thunderstorm and some parts of the city will see heavy precipitation and strong winds.

The lightning warning was followed by another yellow warning for rainstorm, with most parts of Nanning to see heavy rains of 20 to 40 millimeters.

In some areas, precipitation will exceed 50 millimeters and will also be accompanied by thunder and gusty winds.

The central province of Hubei activated a Level III emergency response for major meteorological disasters on Sunday morning.

Local meteorological service estimated that from Sunday night to Tuesday, the province will see heavy to torrential rains and some regions will experience downpours accompanied by severe convective weather.

Local authorities said the public should stay alert to secondary disasters triggered by persistent heavy rains.

Rains hit north China's Tianjin Municipality on Saturday night.

The rainfall intensified significantly on Sunday morning and the rainy weather is projected to last until Monday.

Heavy rains prompt emergency responses in several regions