➤ Figures of the week
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Published on Sep. 06, 2026
6.78 Trillion Yuan
According to the 2026 industry development report released in Guiyang on August 29, 2026, China's data sector grew 15.7% year-over-year to reach 6.78 trillion yuan (roughly US$1 trillion) in 2025.
Registered data firms climbed 17.9% to 482,000, with capital heavily targeting large language models, simulation, synthetic data, and embodied AI.
Source: 21st Century Business Herald (21 Shiji Jingji Baodao)
9%
A company prospectus shows that industrial uses generated just 9% of Unitree Robotics’ humanoid robot revenue in early 2025, while research and education drove 73.6%.
Globally, Counterpoint data shows that over 60% of the 22,000+ humanoid robots shipped in H1 2026 went to entertainment and data research, compared to 13% for smart manufacturing and 5% for logistics.
Sources: The Economic Observer (Jingji Guancha Bao), Counterpoint
2.45 Million PFLOPS
By the end of July 2026, China's total capacity for intelligent computing reached 2.45 million PFLOPS (FP16), according to a government official.
Source: National Data Administration, IT Home (IT Zhijia)
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