The country’s digital economy accounted for 32.28 percent of its gross domestic product in 2017 and remained an important pivot for the country’s economic growth, a new report said on Thursday.
Released by Tencent Research Institute, the annual China Internet Plus Index shows that the internet-based digital economy amounted to 26.7 trillion yuan ($4.25 trillion) in 2017, up 17.24 percent year-on-year.