Ministry of Commerce: Humanoid robots and other embodied intelligent products have become a new highlight of digital consumption
2025-03-21 16:31:45

The head of the Ministry of Commerce's E-commerce Department said that from January to February 2025, my country's e-commerce continued to release its endogenous driving force, innovation potential, and open vitality, achieving a good start. Artificial intelligence and old-for-new exchanges drove steady growth in online goods. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, physical goods grew by 5%. According to business big data monitoring, embodied smart products such as humanoid robots have become a new highlight of digital consumption. More than 90% of provinces and cities across the country cooperated with platforms to carry out old-for-new exchanges, and three types of digital products such as mobile phones grew by 17.9%. Supply-side optimization has driven rapid growth in online services. With the Spring Festival intangible cultural heritage and the expansion of visa-free entry, online tourism grew by 35.9%, of which intangible cultural heritage tourism grew nearly fourfold. High-quality supplies such as movies and concerts drove online entertainment to grow by 52.5%.
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