Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: In the first half of the year, the digital industry's operating income increased by 9.3% year-on-year, with growth rate increasing by 3.4 percentage points compared to the same period last year.

Xie Shaofeng, the chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a press conference on the 18th that in the first five months, the number of large-scale industrial enterprises reached 520,000, an increase of over 8,000 from the end of the previous year, with the profits of large-scale manufacturing enterprises increasing by 5.4% year-on-year. With digital technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence models rapidly developing, the digital industry's business revenue increased by 9.3% year-on-year, an increase of 3.4 percentage points from the same period last year.