[News] Shanghai Recorded 15.1% Growth in Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Output for 2025

On January 21, Shanghai released its 2025 economic data. The city’s full-year GDP exceeded CNY 5.6 trillion, posting a year-on-year growth of 5.4% at constant prices. This growth rate not only surpassed the national GDP growth of 5%, but also marked an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared with Shanghai’s own performance last year, signaling an acceleration in economic growth.

Among them, the combined manufacturing output value of Shanghai’s three leading industries—integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine—rose 9.6% year on year, with total output surpassing CNY 2 trillion. Specifically, integrated circuit manufacturing output increased by 15.1%, while artificial intelligence manufacturing output grew by 13.6%.

Notably, according to Shanghai’s recently released recommendations for the “15th Five-Year Plan,” the city will step up the development of its three leading industries. Efforts will focus on enhancing the capability of integrated circuit equipment, manufacturing processes, and design capacity, promoting coordinated breakthroughs and scaled growth across the entire industry chain.

The Plan also mentions that Shanghai will advance full-stack innovation in artificial intelligence, strengthening the coordinated development of high-performance AI computing chips, high-quality data corpora, and high-efficiency intelligent computing clusters. The city will promote iterative upgrades of foundational large models and the maturation of embodied intelligence technologies, deeply implement the “AI+” initiative, and continue advancing the “Modeling Shanghai” program. In addition, Shanghai will accelerate the application of vertical-domain models and the development of multi-agent systems, while further strengthening AI governance.

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