Lu Haiqi, director of the Institute of Statistical Science of the National Bureau of Statistics, explains the 2025 China Economic Development New Momentum Index. The network economy continues to grow at a relatively rapid pace. According to estimates, the Internet Economy Index reached 157.8 in 2025, an increase of 10.8% over the previous year. The annual mobile Internet access traffic reached 395.8 billion GB, an increase of 17.3%; the number of 5G base stations nationwide reached 4.84 million, a net increase of 588,000 over the previous year, accounting for 37.6% of the total number of mobile phone base stations, an increase of 4 percentage points; the national e-commerce transaction volume reached 46.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.5%; online retail sales reached 15.97 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6%, of which retail sales of online goods increased by 1.5 percentage points; the growth rate of cross-border e-commerce exports was 2.27 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.4%.

Lu Haiqi, director of the Institute of Statistical Science of the National Bureau of Statistics, explains the 2025 China Economic Development New Momentum Index. The network economy continues to grow at a relatively rapid pace. According to estimates, the Internet Economy Index reached 157.8 in 2025, an increase of 10.8% over the previous year. The annual mobile Internet access traffic reached 395.8 billion GB, an increase of 17.3%; the number of 5G base stations nationwide reached 4.84 million, a net increase of 588,000 over the previous year, accounting for 37.6% of the total number of mobile phone base stations, an increase of 4 percentage points; the national e-commerce transaction volume reached 46.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.5%; online retail sales reached 15.97 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6%, of which retail sales of online goods increased by 1.5 percentage points; the growth rate of cross-border e-commerce exports was 2.27 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.4%.