AI poster: China's new economic growth drivers index rises 12.5 pct in 2025

China's new economic growth drivers index rose 12.5 percent in 2025, with the transformation and upgrading index and the innovation driven index together accounting for nearly two-thirds of the increase, official data showed on Aug. 27, 2026.

The index reached 153, with 2022 set as the base year of 100, according to the Institute of Statistical Sciences of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). All four sub-indexes increased from a year earlier.

The transformation and upgrading index rose 22.7 percent, the fastest among the four, and contributed 34.1 percent to overall index growth. The innovation-driven index increased 12.9 percent and contributed another 31.4 percent, bringing their combined contribution to 65.5 percent.

That marked a shift from 2024, when the network economy was the largest contributor to index growth and transformation and upgrading accounted for 16.7 percent of the increase.

China's new growth drivers continued to grow in strength in 2025, with innovation playing an increasingly prominent leading role and transformation and upgrading gathering pace.

The value added of high-tech manufacturing rose 9.4 percent in 2025, 3.5 percentage points faster than that of major industrial enterprises as a whole. The share of the value added of high-tech manufacturing in the total value added of major industrial enterprises rose to 17.1 percent.