The added value of the industrial and information software sectors in Beijing is approaching the trillion-yuan mark, accounting for 36.6% of the city's GDP. High-tech manufacturing and strategic emerging industries are leading the way with a growth rate exceeding 12%, while the "AI+" boom is driving a surge in "hardcore" production capacity. The output of integrated circuits and industrial robots has soared by over 75%, and service robot production has skyrocketed by 2.3 times. The nation's first "Token Factory" has been completed and put into operation, with daily token calls exceeding 200 trillion. New computing power of 22,000 P has been added, a humanoid robot broke the half-marathon record, and private rockets achieved seven consecutive successes. These highlights come from Beijing's industrial economic semi-annual report, which showcases how the city is reshaping the global industrial landscape with hardcore technology, from embodied intelligence and world models alternatingly topping global rankings, to the 6G test network achieving interconnection between Beijing and Xiong'an.
Momentum Upgrade, Industrial Resilience Continues to Shine
"In the first half of this year, under the deployment of Beijing's municipal party committee and government for high-quality development work, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology closely focused on the strategic positioning of the capital city, concentrating on key tasks of stabilizing growth, strengthening innovation, promoting coordination, and optimizing services. The development resilience of the industrial and information software sectors continued to be evident, the pace of transformation and upgrading accelerated, and innovation capabilities were significantly enhanced, laying a solid foundation for high-quality industrial development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period," said Zhu Jun, Director of the Economic Operation Department at the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology. Overall industrial operations were stable. Zhu Jun noted that in the first half of the year, Beijing's industrial economy started high and moved steadily, with the combined added value of the industrial and information software sectors approaching one trillion yuan, accounting for 36.6% of the city's GDP. This demonstrated strong resilience and vitality in the face of internal and external shocks and challenges. Specifically, the total industrial output value exceeded 1.35 trillion yuan, with added value growing by 3.4%; the revenue of the information software industry surpassed 1.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.1%. Major projects are being implemented intensively. Accelerating the layout of high-end manufacturing projects, fixed asset investment in key industrial sectors grew by 24.0% year-on-year in the first half of the year, with investment in high-tech manufacturing increasing by 36.0%. Investment in the information software industry was steadily advanced, reaching one hundred billion yuan in the first half of the year. This not only became a crucial fulcrum for stabilizing investment but also empowered emerging industries like artificial intelligence. New drivers of growth provided strong support. In the first half of the year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing and strategic emerging industries grew by 15.7% and 12.8% respectively, significantly outpacing the average growth rate of the industrial economy. The rapid development of the "AI+" economy drove the output of integrated circuits, industrial robots, and service robots to increase by 92.1%, 75.5%, and 2.3 times respectively, becoming a key engine for industrial growth. Zhu Jun stated that in the first half of the year, Beijing's industrial production remained stable, and high-end manufacturing showed active performance. However, issues such as industry divergence, profitability pressure, and a lack of confidence among some enterprises remained prominent. To further stabilize employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology issued the "Several Measures to Support the Improvement of Quality and Efficiency of Industrial Enterprises in Beijing." These measures propose 28 support initiatives across seven key areas: industrial innovation, market development, employment security, logistics and transportation, financing, land and space factor guarantees, and enterprise services. The first area is increasing support for industrial innovation, including building a science and technology insurance support system for SMEs, strengthening support for key core technology research, accelerating the layout of pilot platforms, production lines, and 'Zero Factory' facilities, supporting enterprises in purchasing tokens for AI applications, and implementing tax preferential policies. The second is assisting enterprises in expanding markets, such as promoting MCN institutions, consumer internet platforms, industrial e-commerce platforms, and exhibition platforms to empower market promotion, supporting the creation of new industrial consumption scenarios, and assisting in overseas market expansion. The third is strengthening talent rewards and employment security, involving enhancing job creation and mining potential, normalizing the supply-demand matching of talents between enterprises and schools, strengthening industry-education integration talent cultivation, and supporting key enterprises in applying for independent professional title evaluation rights. The fourth is reducing logistics and transportation costs by improving the digital and intelligent level of logistics, expanding the effective supply of high-standard and smart warehouses, and strengthening road rights guarantees for new energy freight vehicles. The fifth is improving financing convenience by launching the 'Beijing Enterprise Financing Comprehensive Credit Service Platform', guiding financial institutions to innovate specialized low-cost credit products, and implementing actions like 'Partner Plan', 'Innovate for the Future', and 'Billion Financing'. The sixth is strengthening land and space factor guarantees by supporting joint land acquisition and use, implementing flexible term land transfer policies, and allowing industrial projects to pay land transfer fees in installments according to agreed terms. The seventh is strengthening enterprise services by accelerating the 'direct and fast enjoyment' of pro-business policies, establishing a mechanism for extensive contact with enterprises, and enhancing precision services for risk enterprises.
Digital and Intelligent Empowerment, Accelerating the Transformation Towards Intelligence and Green
From solidifying the computing power foundation to the global competition of large models, from 'Lighthouse Factories' leading the smart manufacturing upgrade to green factories blossoming everywhere, Beijing is reshaping its industrial genes with 'digital intelligence' and marking its development background with 'green', racing at full speed on the track of new industrialization. Zhu Jun introduced that breakthroughs in the intelligent economy are being made, and the pace of transformation towards intelligence and green development is accelerating. The computing power foundation is continuously being solidified, with the 'Millisecond Computing' action being promoted, the China Computing Power Platform (Beijing) being launched, the Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute being established, 22,000 P of new computing power being added, 145 industry data demands being released, and 140 high-quality data sets being built. Large model innovation is a global race, with embodied intelligence and world models alternately topping global rankings. Large models like Doubao Seedance, Zhipu GLM, and Moonshot Kimi have become global market hotspots, and the general AI agent infrastructure 'Lingji OS' has achieved key breakthroughs. The token economy is rapidly taking off, with the first 'Token Factory' surpassing 200 trillion daily calls; an action plan to support the development of AI OPC (One Person Company) innovation has been issued, and the Global OPC Creation Festival has been successfully held. Digital transformation is advancing across the board. The digital compliance rate for manufacturing enterprises above a designated size in Beijing has risen to 90%, with 28 new advanced-level smart factories being recognized, bringing the total to 225. The Schneider Electric Beijing Park was recognized as the city's sixth 'Global Lighthouse Factory'. The Daxing District and the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area were approved as the first batch of national pilot zones for new industrialization, while Fangshan District and Changping District were included in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's technical transformation pilot cities, achieving full coverage of the plains suburbs. The green manufacturing system is being accelerated, with a cumulative total of 182 national green factories. The output of wind turbine generators grew by 29.0%, and Beijing successfully obtained the hosting rights for the 2029 World Hydrogen Energy Technology Conference. Wang Yuan, Director of the SME Department of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, stated that artificial intelligence is currently fostering a new form of lightweight, distributed, and super-individual entrepreneurship. As a highland for the national AI industry, Beijing hosts over 2,500 core AI enterprises, with the industry scale approaching 450 billion yuan. Beijing took the lead in the country by issuing the 'Action Plan for Supporting the Innovation and Development of AI OPCs (Trial)', providing young entrepreneurs with a full-chain, supportive cultivation model encompassing 'policy provision, resource allocation, scenario creation, space supply, and service delivery'. The specific support can be summarized as '1231': building a batch of high-quality OPC growth communities, with outstanding performers eligible for a maximum reward of 2 million yuan; launching two online service zones, the 'Startup Service Zone' and 'Financial Service Zone', which are already operational; providing three major exhibition and matchmaking stages, including the first OPC Creation Festival achieving over 230 million online exposures, the 'Maker Beijing' competition featuring its first OPC-specific track with about 500 registered projects, and the 'Innovate for the Future' special roadshow where projects can receive up to 10 million yuan in funding support; and offering a 'landing gift package', allowing enterprises settling in the community to enjoy free Token, computing power, and data procurement services worth up to 100,000 yuan for three consecutive months. "In the next step, we will accelerate the construction of a gradient, ecological, and community-based OPC cultivation system, cultivating no less than 10 specialized OPC growth communities within the year and serving over 500 high-quality OPC innovation entities," Wang Yuan said. Zhang Jinrui, Director of the Digital Industry Department of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, introduced that the added value of Beijing's digital economy grew by 7.8% in the first half of the year, with the core industry growth rate at 9.8%, significantly driving the city's GDP growth. In terms of computing power, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei 'Galaxy Computing Corridor' project is being deeply implemented. The supply scale of intelligent computing power reached 82,000 P in the first half of the year, aggregating and dispatching high-quality computing resources from outside Beijing, including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Inner Mongolia. The green and low-carbon transformation of over 20 existing data centers was promoted, with green electricity consumption exceeding 1.7 billion kWh. In terms of data supply, a municipal-level supply-demand matching platform was established, achieving over 50 high-quality data set supply-demand collaborations. The 'Model-Data Resonance' action was launched, focusing on key industries to deploy and build 140 high-quality data sets. "City-district coordination has been used to issue computing power vouchers and data vouchers, deeply implementing the general AI industry innovation partner plan, facilitating over 60 cooperation projects with a total amount exceeding 2 billion yuan. In the 2026 Forbes China Top 50 AI Technology Enterprises, 21 Beijing enterprises were listed, ranking first in the country," Zhang Jinrui stated. Regarding the work plan for the second half of the year, Zhang Jinrui introduced that the goal is to add 50,000 P of intelligent computing power, with the total scale for the year breaking through 130,000 P, and green electricity consumption in data centers exceeding 3 billion kWh. The plan is to promote AI empowering new industrialization, build AI R&D and pilot platforms in the industrial field, and issue special support policies for embodied intelligence. The construction of the national (medical) AI application pilot base will be accelerated to unblock bottlenecks in the transformation of medical intelligence from the laboratory to clinical application. Policies for the development of the Token economy will be formulated, and the layout of Token factories and distribution platforms will be planned. Relying on the Open Source Chip Research Institute and the Tongming Lake Information Technology Innovation Center, a 'RISC-V+AIOS' full-stack autonomous technology system will be built. The 'Model-Data Resonance' action will be deeply implemented, establishing over 100 high-quality industry data sets, strengthening the Beijing International Big Data Exchange, and facilitating the purchase and use of data by enterprises.
Pioneering Future Industries, Accelerating Global Connections
The latest progress on linking global future industry innovation achievements and the digital economy enterprise overseas policies were simultaneously released—one focusing inward on solidifying the innovation foundation, and the other expanding outward into the global market. This two-pronged approach aims to build a new pattern of high-end and sophisticated industries for the capital. Zhu Jun introduced that the industrial innovation system is increasingly perfect. In the first half of the year, four new municipal-level industrial innovation centers were established in fields such as RISC-V digital infrastructure and radio spectrum, bringing the total to 24. A plan for building a pilot service system for advanced manufacturing was issued, establishing a pilot service system involving 146 enterprises, and adding 11 key pilot platforms designated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, accounting for one-tenth of the national total. Industrial innovation achievements are emerging rapidly. Multiple new models from Li Auto and Xiaomi were launched on the market. The sales volume of BAIC's new energy vehicle independent brands increased by 17.4% year-on-year. Thirteen enterprises, with 21 projects, were selected as typical cases of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's industrial machine tool innovation products, and 93 units were selected for the commercial aerospace innovation consortium, the highest number in the country. In the first half of the year, all seven domestic private rocket launch missions were completed by Beijing enterprises, and the Long March 10B achieved the world's first network recovery test. Future industries are gaining momentum. The first Future Industry Conference was successfully held, adding two new future industry pilot zones and seven new incubation platforms. The 'Innovate for the Future' plan served nearly 60 enterprises in connecting with investment institutions. Humanoid robots achieved breakthroughs in global scene perception and dynamic memory, with dexterous hands capable of threading a needle, breaking the human half-marathon record, and the Changping Robot Industrial Park was put into operation. The Beijing 6G Laboratory was established, the 6G test network achieved interconnection between Beijing and Xiong'an, and key patents accounted for 11.5% of the national total. Breakthroughs in future industries are inseparable from a global perspective and resource allocation. Concurrently, Beijing is accelerating the construction of a service system for digital economy enterprises to go overseas, helping innovative achievements reach the world. Xia Juan, a Third-Level Researcher at the Foreign Exchange and Cooperation Department of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, introduced that at the end of last year, Beijing issued the 'Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of the Beijing Digital Economy Enterprise Overseas Innovation Service Base (2026-2028)'. Recently, the 'Several Measures for Beijing to Accelerate and Promote the Overseas Expansion of Digital Economy Enterprises' was released. From three dimensions—expanding channels, strengthening services, and building ecosystems—the measures aim to comprehensively reduce burdens and empower enterprises in their international development. In terms of expanding overseas cooperation channels, routine channels will be established with foreign embassies in China and domestic and international business associations, organizing the 'GoGlobal' series of industry matchmaking events, with participating enterprises enjoying booth fee subsidies. Support will be provided for jointly building overseas service stations, offering services such as business opportunity matching and overseas registration. Customized international promotion of digital solutions will be selected, and typical cases will be compiled to enhance industry visibility. In terms of improving the full-process supporting service system, an online-offline integrated overseas service platform will be built, with government consultation windows for foreign investment and cross-border data. The best-performing platform annually can receive up to 10 million yuan in support. Compliance consulting services will be provided via the municipal cross-border data service center; cross-border financial services will be innovated; enterprises selected for participating in the formulation of international standards can receive compensation of up to 1 million yuan; and routine technical barriers to trade (TBT) early warnings will be issued. In terms of cultivating an internationalized digital ecosystem, support will be provided for the overseas layout of information software, large models, robots, consumer electronics, cross-border e-commerce, and gaming e-sports. Outstanding enterprises in gaming e-sports can receive a maximum reward of 5 million yuan. The open-source evaluation system will be improved, and an international open-source cooperation platform will be built. Cross-border livestreaming and digital marketing innovation will be encouraged, and cross-border mutual recognition of electronic documents will be promoted. A unified overseas public brand will be shaped using a full media matrix. Xia Juan stated that the next step will be to accelerate the implementation and disbursement of policies, improve the full-cycle service system relying on the overseas base, support capital digital enterprises to participate in global competition based on technology, services, and standards, and provide capital support for the construction of the Digital Silk Road.