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Xi’an’s exports rose 142.1 per cent in the first nine months of 2026, with computing equipment and integrated circuits together making up 76.5 per cent of the city’s exports, the South China Morning Post reports.
Why it mattersShipments of data-processing equipment and parts jumped 388.1 per cent year on year; integrated-circuit exports rose 251 per cent. The figures make Xi’an’s trade surge a useful snapshot of the computing supply chain’s growing weight in China’s exports, though they do not isolate AI-related goods.
Discuss: Should cities judge a computing-export boom by its headline growth, or by how much of the production and value stays local?
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