China’s digital product manufacturing industry recorded robust growth in the first 11 months of this year, signaling the sustained expansion of the digital economy is fostering greater momentum for the development of new quality productive forces, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday.

"From January to November, the value-added output of digital product manufacturing enterprises above designated size increased by 9.3 percent year on year, while the production index of information transmission, software, and information technology services grew by 11.3 percent. In terms of products, the output of servers and integrated circuits rose by 15.1 percent and 10.6 percent, respectively, during the same period," said Fu Linghui, spokesman for the NBS, at a press conference in Beijing.

Data from the NBS also showed that breakthroughs are accelerating in cutting-edge technological fields including artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence, strengthening their role in driving industrial upgrading.

In the period, the value-added output of high-tech manufacturing enterprises above the designated size grew by 9.2 percent year on year. The smart consumer device manufacturing sector saw a growth of 7.6 percent in value-added output, while the output of industrial robots and industrial control computers and systems surged by 29.2 percent and 87.6 percent, respectively.

Industrial enterprises above designated sizes are those with annual revenue from principal business of or above 20 million yuan (about 2.84 million U.S. dollars).