CCTV News (News Network): The leading indicators released by the National Information Center on May 10 show that since April, thanks to the coordinated efforts of a series of macro policies, many economic sectors in our country have maintained a positive trend.
The latest data shows that in April, my country's investment structure continued to be optimized, and new drivers of economic growth were activated at an accelerated pace. Driven by the coordinated efforts of the government and the market, capital is accelerating to gather in new tracks. Among them, in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and humanoid robots, the investment amount increased by 175.2% year-on-year; for infrastructure projects in data, computing power, network and other fields, the winning bid amount increased by 61.7% year-on-year.
The innovation vitality of enterprises has been released at an accelerated pace. The growth rate of patent authorizations related to strategic emerging industries has accelerated by 10.6 percentage points compared with the first quarter. A new round of technological achievements has emerged, which has strongly supported the cultivation and expansion of new quality productivity and industrial transformation and upgrading.
The consumer market continues to show a positive trend of scale growth and structural optimization. Big data from offline consumption shows that in April, offline consumption payment amount increased by 1.7% year-on-year, and commodity consumption increased by 2.7% year-on-year, with electronic goods and daily necessities growing faster.
