According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 6.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, with a growth rate 0.8 percentage points faster than the fourth quarter of last year. The contribution rate of industry to macroeconomic growth has reached 36.3%, and its role as a "ballast stone" continues to play a significant role. While the industrial economy is running steadily and improving, the pace of high-end, intelligent, and green industrial development is accelerating. The vitality of industrial transformation and upgrading is constantly increasing, and new quality productivity is developing and growing. In the first quarter of the year, the proportion of added value of equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing industries to industries above designated size increased by 1.9 and 0.5 percentage points respectively, indicating continuous optimization of the industrial structure. Xie Shaofeng, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that the equipment manufacturing industry has played an important supporting role, with a year-on-year increase of 10.9% in added value in the first quarter, driving the overall industrial production growth by 3.5 percentage points. With the support of policies such as "dual" and "two new", the added value of industries such as electronics, automobiles, and electrical machinery and equipment has achieved a growth rate of over 10%. Xie Shaofeng stated that he will adhere to the construction of a modern industrial system, promote the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries, cultivate and strengthen emerging industries, and advance the layout of future industries. Promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, accelerate the development of new quality productive forces, and maintain the momentum of stable and positive development of the industrial economy. Guan Bing, director of the Industrial Economics Research Institute at CCID Research Institute, analyzed that in the first quarter, the industrial economy showed three characteristics. Supply and demand are mutually driven. In the first quarter, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 4.6% year-on-year; Excluding price factors, the actual growth was 4.8%. Policy and technology work together in both directions. Driven by the "two new" policies, in the first quarter, the added value of general equipment and specialized equipment manufacturing industries above designated size increased by 9.4% and 4.1% year-on-year, respectively, and profits in the first two months increased by 6.0% and 5.9% respectively; The final consumption expenditure drove GDP growth by 2.8 percentage points, contributing more than half of the economic growth. Meanwhile, technological highlights represented by DeepSeek continue to emerge. The dual efforts of policies and technology have provided stronger confidence for China to cultivate new driving forces and new tracks. Both soft and hard industries are making efforts in both directions. From the perspective of hardware production, in the first quarter, the added value of equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing increased by 10.9% and 9.7% respectively year-on-year, and the industrial economic structure continued to optimize. From the perspective of software empowerment, digital production empowers the intelligent transformation of industries. In the first quarter, the added value of digital product manufacturing increased by 10.2% year-on-year, with a growth rate 1.1 percentage points faster than the previous two months. As an important component of new quality productivity, the electronic information manufacturing industry, software, and information technology services industry showed significant growth and improved quality while maintaining stability in key industries in the first quarter. Xie Cun, Director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that in the first quarter, the added value of the computer, communication, and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 11.5% year-on-year, which was 5 percentage points higher than the growth rate of industrial added value during the same period. In the first two months, the software and information technology service industry achieved a revenue of 1.8965 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.9%, maintaining steady growth; The total profit of the software industry was 232.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.7%. Driven by subsidy policies and other factors, Chinese consumers' enthusiasm for electronic products has increased, which has accelerated the production and sales of electronic devices. The total output of electronic computers in the first quarter was 85.322 million units, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%; The total shipment of televisions reached 8.84 million units, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%, with two consecutive quarters of positive growth; In the first two months, the shipment of 5G mobile phones reached 41.619 million units, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%. Domestic brand mobile phones were particularly favored by consumers, accounting for 85% of the shipment volume. The sales boom of complete machines has also driven a slight increase in upstream electronic component production, with integrated circuit and optoelectronic component production increasing by 6% and 3.5% respectively year-on-year in the first quarter. The financial report shows that Lenovo's sales of artificial intelligence computers and other intelligent terminals in China have experienced rapid growth. Liu Jun, Executive Vice President and President of Lenovo Group in China, stated that in the new era of AI inclusiveness, Lenovo China will build differentiated competitive advantages in three major areas: AI terminals, AI infrastructure, and AI solutions and services. The potential of open source continues to burst, and the results of empowering thousands of industries are beginning to show. More than 10 provinces (cities) across the country have implemented innovation and open source support measures, supporting the incubation and commercial implementation of open source projects through technological transformation and upgrading, and recommending innovative products. The open source HarmonyOS ecosystem continues to expand, with over 70 community co construction units and more than 1 billion devices installed. The cumulative installed capacity of the open-source Euler system has exceeded 10 million. Chinese open source models are shining brightly, achieving full open source of advanced models, parameter weights, reasoning logic, and tool chains, opening up a new era for commercial use of artificial intelligence. Since the beginning of this year, the integration of artificial intelligence has accelerated, and domestic large-scale models have become popular, stimulating the enthusiasm and innovation vitality of the whole society for application. The manufacturing industry is an important field for the landing and application of artificial intelligence technology products, and the integration and development of the two are constantly accelerating. Wei Daisen, General Manager of Inspur Digital Enterprise, believes that the competition in the future manufacturing industry is essentially a fusion of hard power and soft ecology driven by data, with technology rooted in scenarios, data empowering decision-making, and ecological co construction and sharing. The combination of AI and data elements is driving the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry in terms of efficiency, quality, and green development, and moving towards sustainable and high-quality development. Xie Shaofeng introduced that China has formed a complete artificial intelligence industry system covering the basic layer, framework layer, model layer, and application layer. The scale of computing power ranks among the top in the world, and high-quality industry datasets such as steel and coal have been built. A number of competitive general and industry models have been cultivated, and domestic models have topped the global mainstream open source community download list, creating the "Chinese speed". In terms of application and ecology, large models are accelerating their implementation in industries such as electronics, raw materials, and consumer goods, and are being applied in research and development design, pilot testing, production and manufacturing, and operational management. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has promoted the construction of 11 national artificial intelligence innovation and application pilot zones through coordinated efforts between the ministry and the province. The central and local governments have jointly established manufacturing innovation centers such as embodied intelligent robots and humanoid robots, promoting industrial agglomeration and development; At present, more than 400 national level specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence have been cultivated. Xie Shaofeng stated that he will organize efforts to empower new industrialization with artificial intelligence, strengthen the research and development layout of general and industry models, consolidate the foundation, and promote the industrialization of intelligence; Promote the intelligent upgrading of the entire manufacturing process and key industries and products. (New Society)