AI Data Insight
China's overall labor productivity growth rate jumped to 6.1% in 2025, a significant rebound from 4.9% in 2024, marking the best performance since the post-pandemic recovery in 2021. The strengthening data is primarily driven by "New Quality Productive Forces" policies accelerating industrial automation and AI digital workshop applications, effectively offsetting the structural pressures of a shrinking labor force; however, external trade barriers remain a primary risk for early 2026.