The National Bureau of Statistics published its statistical communiqué on the 2025 national economic and social development on Saturday, showing that China's technology sector gathered pace in 2025, with high-tech manufacturing and research spending both witnessing solid growth.

According to the report, value-added output of high-tech manufacturing rose 9.4 percent year on year, while profits at related firms climbed 13.3 percent.

Space achievements stood out. China completed 92 space launches in 2025, including 50 commercial missions. Progress in reusable rocket technology also accelerated, with the Zhuque-3 and the Long March-12A making maiden flights and successfully sending their second stages into orbit. 

Additionally, the Tianwen-2 probe successfully embarked on its asteroid sample-return journey, marking another step forward in deep-space exploration. 

In the military and frontier technology fields, the report noted that the Fujian, China's first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, was commissioned. 

A prototype superconducting quantum computer, "Zuchongzhi-3," was successfully constructed, while China's "artificial sun" project set a world record of "100-million-degree plasma sustained for 1,000 seconds."

In artificial intelligence, the homegrown large language model DeepSeek drew global attention. China also carried out its first clinical trial of an invasive brain-computer interface, according to the report.

China's spending on research and development reached 3.93 trillion yuan (approximately $569 billion) in 2025, up 8.1 percent from a year earlier. The country granted 972,000 invention patents over the year, underscoring continued efforts to strengthen innovation capacity.