China’s internet user base hits 1.125 billion, generative AI sees expanded adoption
China had 1.125 billion internet users by the end of 2025, with the penetration rate climbing to 80.1 percent, according to an official industry report.
The report, released by the China Internet Network Information Center on Thursday, underscores broader adoption of generative AI technology across the country’s consumer and industrial sectors, with user numbers reaching 602 million.
The report reaches the conclusion that China’s internet sector had achieved “significant progress” during the 2021-2025 period, citing expanded coverage, deeper application, and improved technological innovation.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
