China’s integrated circuit exports nearly doubled in the first half of the year, according to customs data released Tuesday, underscoring how the global artificial intelligence boom has turned computing hardware into a primary engine of economic expansion.
Between January and June, the country shipped 179.44 billion integrated circuits valued at US$177.28 billion, representing a 96% increase in value compared to the same period last year, the General Administration of Customs reported.
The surge in chip shipments served as a key catalyst for China’s double-digit overall export growth during the period, complementing strong overseas demand for industrial robots and other high-tech goods. The figures highlight Beijing’s accelerating pivot toward technology-driven export growth amid an increasingly complex global trade landscape.
“The export growth was fundamentally driven by precisely matching ‘Made in China’ products with diverse global demand,” Vice-Minister of Customs Wang Jun stated at a briefing on Tuesday.
The milestone arrives as Beijing pushes for greater semiconductor self-reliance, encouraging domestic adoption of homegrown chips. At the same time, authorities recently authorized the sale of Nvidia’s advanced H200 graphics processing units—a critical component for AI model training—to select Chinese technology firms.
Emerging AI applications have become a dominant trade accelerant. Exports of automatic data processing machines and related components—including computers, servers, memory, and other computing infrastructure—jumped 41.3% year-on-year to US$138.08 billion in the first half.
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