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1. Aerial shots of cityscape

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Shi Fanqi, assistant professor, School of Economics, Peking University (ending with shots 3-8):
"I think actually there are different reasons behind the growth for the industry sector and the service sector. For the industrial sector, I think it's mostly driven by the demand side. So as we all know, especially for the past few years, China has very strong production capacity, but consumption was relatively weak. But now for the first two months we see that there is government subsidy to consumer demand. So, that means the domestics demand is actually picking up. And also for the first two months we have a relatively or generally stable global environment. And then we also see a pickup in foreign demand. Actually the growth in export for the first two months was more than 3 percent. So, we see the demand side, with the rise of the demand side, then we can also see growth in the industrial (sector), because the supply is meant to meet the demand. So that's for the growth in the industrial sector."

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3. Various of high-tech production in progress, robotic arms working
4. Various of customers in shopping mall
5. Various of washing machines, televisions for sale, customers, salespersons

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6. Various of cars on display, buyers

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7. Various of vessels, containers, facilities at port

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8. Various of automated equipment in operation
9. Various of equipment transporting cases

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10. Various of engineers working, screen showing robot design

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11. Various of engineer testing mechanical hand

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12. Various of robot walking

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13. Computing facility
14. Engineer working

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15. Various of laser device researchers working

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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Shi Fanqi, assistant professor, School of Economics, Peking University (starting with shots 12-15):
"For the growth of the service sector, it's actually mostly driven by technology advancements. So to see that, we see that the average growth for the service sector is like 5.6 percent. But the highest growth is witnessed in sectors in high-tech industries and in particular, information transmission and information technology. So, that means that recent technological advancements, in particular development in AI, is very key to that growth."

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17. Various of cityscape

Industrial and technological advancements spurred China's economic growth in the first two months of 2025, as recovering domestic demand and robust exports boosted the industrial and service sectors, an economist said on Monday.

China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 5.9 percent year on year in the first two months of 2025, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday.

The NBS data also shows that the Index of Services Production grew by 5.6 percent year on year in the first two months, 0.4 percentage points faster than that of 2024.

Shi Fanqi, assistant professor at Peking University's School of Economics, told China Media Group (CMG) that the industrial sector's growth stemmed from a rebound in domestic and foreign demand.

"I think actually there are different reasons behind the growth for the industry sector and the service sector. For the industrial sector, I think it's mostly driven by the demand side. So as we all know, especially for the past few years, China has very strong production capacity, but consumption was relatively weak. But now for the first two months we see that there is government subsidy to consumer demand. So, that means the domestics demand is actually picking up. And also for the first two months we have a relatively or generally stable global environment. And then we also see a pickup in foreign demand. Actually the growth in export for the first two months was more than 3 percent. So, we see the demand side, with the rise of the demand side, then we can also see growth in the industrial (sector), because the supply is meant to meet the demand. So that's for the growth in the industrial sector," he said.

For the service sector, high-tech industries, particularly information transmission, software, and IT services, led the way with a 9.3 percent growth rate. Leasing and business services, wholesale and retail, and finance also saw significant increases of 8.8 percent, 5.6 percent, and 5.5 percent, respectively, according to the NBS data.

"For the growth of the service sector, it's actually mostly driven by technology advancements. So to see that, we see that the average growth for the service sector is like 5.6 percent. But the highest growth is witnessed in sectors in high-tech industries and in particular, information transmission and information technology. So, that means that recent technological advancements, in particular development in AI, is very key to that growth," Shi said.

Shi noted that the dual-track growth in both sectors reflects China's ability to leverage its production capacity, technological innovation, and policy support to navigate global economic challenges.