China\u2019s policymakers want the digital economy to account for 12.5 per cent of gross domestic product by 2030, as Beijing accelerates its push to build a modern industrial system anchored in advanced manufacturing.<\/p>\n
The goal represents a significant increase from the 10.5 per cent share achieved in 2025, which was announced on Thursday during the annual \u201ctwo sessions\u201d<\/a> parliamentary meetings and exceeded the initial target.A large part of China\u2019s digital economy \u2013 activities facilitated by data, the internet and artificial intelligence<\/a> \u2013 is expected to be fuelled by integration into the manufacturing sector.An outline of the nation\u2019s 15th five-year plan<\/a>, unveiled on Thursday and covering the period to 2030, proposes 28 major projects focused on \u201cstrengthening industrial foundations and competitiveness, fostering emerging industries and new growth tracks, advancing frontier technologies and enhancing innovation capacity\u201d.<\/p>\n Premier Li Qiang, speaking during the opening session of the National People\u2019s Congress, said China \u201cmust build a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will pursue greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology, strengthen original innovation and make breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, while advancing the development of a digital China,\u201d Li said.<\/p>\n This year alone, the government plans to upgrade 5G networks and connect factory equipment to enable more automated, digitalised and intelligent production systems, while developing national advanced manufacturing clusters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s policymakers want the digital economy to account for 12.5 per cent of gross domestic product by 2030,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[220,72,114,150643,30129,113,292,61,60,5773,28945,150639,152910,152911,3971,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-331690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-peoples-political-consultative-conference","12":"tag-digital-economy","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-li-qiang","18":"tag-national-data-administration","19":"tag-national-peoples-congress","20":"tag-qi-an-xin-technology","21":"tag-qi-xiangdong","22":"tag-science-and-technology","23":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}