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In 2025, China's 'three new' economy generated a value added of 25.79 trillion yuan, up 6.2% year-on-year at current prices, representing 18.39% of gross domestic product. The growth rate exceeded the overall GDP growth by 2.2 percentage points, and the share rose by 0.38 percentage points from the previous year.
China's National Development and Reform Commission reported that in the first half of 2026, goods trade with Belt and Road partner countries reached RMB 12.97 trillion, up 14.8% year on year, accounting for 50.9% of total foreign trade. Investment cooperation expanded into high-tech and green sectors. Infrastructure projects advanced, including the Hungary-Serbia Railway's freight service launch, full construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway, and 11,186 China-Europe freight train trips, a 20.2% increase.
Leapmotor has set up Huzhou Lingsheng Precision Manufacturing Co. , Ltd. with a registered capital of RMB 210 million, covering auto parts, industrial robots, and intelligent robot R&D. The new entity is wholly owned by Leapmotor's subsidiary Zhejiang Lingsheng Power Technology Co. The company did not comment on the move. Leapmotor has been exploring robotics since early 2025, and its chairman recently noted the company's market cap is only 0.5% of Tesla's, despite selling 43% of Tesla's volume. The move reflects broader automotive industry interest in robotics as a growth avenue, though commercialization remains uncertain.
The Guanggu AI Film and TV Content Creation Center has officially launched, jointly established by five parties including Guanggu Transportation Investment Group and local cultural and arts bodies. The center aims to break the dilemma of 'local stories monetized elsewhere' by leveraging AI technology. The Guanggu area hosts over 800 AI companies with a combined industry scale of Rmb 60 billion, and 385 cultural enterprises above designated size generated over Rmb 130 billion in revenue in 2025. However, less than 3% of the approximately 142,000 AI short dramas added monthly on Douyin have a strong original literary foundation. The center will address content gaps by connecting Hubei's rich online literature resources with AI production capabilities.
On July 28, Gansu Electric Power Investment Group launched 'Zijin Yuneng', the first provincial-level AI large model for the power industry in China. The model supports fine-tuning and high-performance inference with hundreds of billions of parameters, is compatible with multiple mainstream multimodal models, and provides a one-stop toolchain covering data preprocessing, model training, and inference optimization. It aims to integrate AI resources and facilitate collaborative development across the energy power sector.
Liquid cooling for data centers is gaining traction as AI drives higher computing density. China's liquid cooling server penetration rose from under 3% in 2021 to 20% in 2025, while global AI data center liquid cooling penetration increased from 14% in 2024 to 33% in 2025. Cold plate liquid cooling dominates, with immersion cooling limited to specific high-density scenarios. At the 2026 World AI Conference, major server vendors including Huawei, ZTE, H3C, and Inspur upgraded their supernode systems to full liquid cooling. Coolant standardization remains incomplete, with PG 25 (25% propylene glycol, 75% deionized water) and EG 25 lacking unified specifications. Operational complexity and construction costs pose ongoing challenges.
In the first half of 2026, A-share sleep home firms saw revenue growth but profit declines. ST Xilinmen forecast a net loss of RMB 31 million to RMB 40 million, citing a RMB 49 million forex loss. Menghe's net profit fell over 93% to between zero and RMB 8 million. Qisheng Technology's net profit dropped 67% to 76% to RMB 25.8 million to RMB 34.9 million. In 2025, Menghe's electric bed revenue was RMB 647 million, and Qushui Technology's smart home revenue share reached 44%. Companies are shifting to AI sleep services.
Ant Group released LLaDA2.2 on July 27, a diffusion language model that for the first time achieves real-time error correction while acting in agent scenarios. Enabled by Levenshtein editing and environment feedback reinforcement learning, the model allows diffusion language models to simultaneously act and correct mistakes, enhancing accuracy in dynamic environments.
Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta launched its Robovan autonomous freight business, with vehicles operating in Suzhou's Xiangcheng District for express and overnight delivery. The service uses the R7 world model and a mapless solution, drawing on experience from passenger vehicle deployments. More than 1 million mass-produced vehicles are equipped with Momenta's system, covering over 100 vehicle models, with design wins for over 210 models.
Anthropic product designer Nate Parrott's side project Claude Design, a visual communication tool, has been officially adopted as a product. It surpassed 1 million users in its first week. The tool exports PDF, PPTX, HTML and integrates with Canva, Adobe, Gamma, and others. It is not an image generation model and requires users to import their own logos and brand assets.