Report: China’s smart economy shows strong growth

China News Service, Wuzhen, Zhejiang, November 4 (Bao Mengni) The "China Internet Development Report 2026" and "World Internet Development Report 2026" blue books compiled by the China Cyberspace Academy were released on November 4 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. The "China Internet Development Report 2026" shows that China's smart economy is showing a strong growth trend.

This year's government work report proposed for the first time the need to "create a new form of smart economy", deepen and expand "artificial intelligence +", and promote the accelerated promotion of new generation smart terminals and intelligent agents.

The relevant person in charge of the China Cyberspace Research Institute introduced at the launch site that in the past year, China's intelligent agent and embodied intelligence industries have accelerated their rise. In 2025, the size of China's enterprise-level intelligent body market will exceed 21.2 billion yuan (RMB, the same below); the size of the embodied intelligence market will be approximately 915 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.4%.

In addition, China's model-as-a-service market continues to grow. The market size will be 17.5 billion yuan in 2025, and the number of large model calls on China's public cloud has increased approximately 16 times year-on-year.

Token is positioned as the "value anchor in the intelligent era" and the "settlement unit" that connects technology supply and business demand. The "China Internet Development Report 2026" pointed out that China's word elements are showing a vigorous development trend, and the average daily number of word words has climbed from about 100 billion in early 2024 to 140 trillion in March 2026, an increase of more than a thousand times in two years.

The iterative upgrade of artificial intelligence technology has also become an important engine for the growth of the world’s digital economy. The "World Internet Development Report 2026" shows that artificial intelligence is expected to contribute US$22.3 trillion to the global economy by 2030, accounting for 3.7% of global GDP that year.

In addition, the report pointed out that with the promotion and popularization of 5G, it is expected that by the end of 2027, the number of global 5G users will exceed 4G and become the mainstream mobile access technology.