Industry forecasts presented at the 2025 China Computing Power Conference indicate that China´s intelligent computing power is expected to expand by more than 40 percent year on year in 2025, driven by rapid Artificial Intelligence advancement, according to event reports. Conference data cited an annual growth rate of about 30 percent for China´s total computing power, and officials stated that by June 2025 intelligent computing power had reached 788 EFLOPS, up from 90 EFLOPS at the end of 2024. The tally of total computing capacity reported for 2024 stood at 280 EFLOPS, with intelligent computing accounting for 32 percent of that total, according to the National Data Administration.
Speakers and analysts at the conference highlighted the broadening scope of applications that are pushing demand for computing power. Generative models, autonomous driving, the low-altitude economy, embodied intelligence, smart cities, and industrial manufacturing were cited as key drivers. More than 23,000 innovative computing projects have been collected through application competitions, with reported large-scale adoption in finance, healthcare, and energy. Experts noted specific use cases such as AI-driven medical imaging for diagnostics, personalized learning systems in education, and precision farming and agricultural robotics in agriculture as examples that require robust computing support.
Developments in infrastructure and core technologies were also emphasized. Officials said 10 provincial platforms have been integrated into the national computing power platform and that domestic operator investment in computing power is growing at over 20 percent. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology plans to optimize intelligent computing infrastructure, improve supply-demand matching across regions, and accelerate breakthroughs in key technologies such as GPU chips. The conference also discussed model and hardware advances, including DeepSeek-V3.1 and the adoption of FP8 numeric formats to boost efficiency, noting trade-offs in precision that hybrid training addresses. Forecasts at the event included a projection that by 2035 Artificial Intelligence could contribute over 11 trillion yuan to China’s GDP and substantially multiply future computing power demand.
