Dozens of UBTECH industrial humanoid robots carry out training tasks at a smart factory in the Qianwan New Area in Ningbo, East China"s Zhejiang Province, on March 1, 2025. Photo: VCG

　　In the first eight months of this year, the profits made by China"s high-tech manufacturing enterprises above the designated size surged 54.7 percent year-on-year, which is 39 percentage points faster than the overall growth rate for major industrial enterprises, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday, highlighting the growing role of new growth drivers in supporting the economy.

　　The strong performance came as profits at industrial enterprises above the designated size reached 5.27 trillion yuan ($740 billion) during the January-August period, up 15.7 percent year-on-year.

　　The accelerated construction of computing-power infrastructure in the country has provided a strong boost. Profits in optical fiber manufacturing surged 5.3 times year-on-year, while profits in computer manufacturing and computer peripheral equipment manufacturing rose 3.9 times and 2.6 times, respectively, the NBS said.

　　Among the standout sectors, the electronics industry provided a particularly strong boost. Profits in the sector more than doubled from a year earlier, rising 110 percent, accounting for 62 percent of the overall profit growth among industrial enterprises above the designated size, the NBS data showed.

　　Rising demand for semiconductors driven by new-energy vehicles, the Internet of Things and computing data centers helped boost profits in many industrial sectors, with optoelectronic component manufacturing and semiconductor discrete device manufacturing up 72 percent and 51.8 percent, respectively. Rapid growth in electronic basic materials also drove profits in electronic special materials manufacturing up 2.3 times.