During an interview with Xinhua News Agency during the World Economic Forum's 2026 Annual Meeting, McKinsey China Chairman Yili Ni stated that looking back at the just passed year of 2025, the Chinese economy has shown strong resilience and vitality, and its performance has exceeded everyone's expectations. Ni Yili told reporters that in 2025, the Chinese economy has delivered an impressive performance in the face of a complex and ever-changing international environment. It has not only achieved the target of annual GDP growth, but also demonstrated strong competitiveness in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence. He said that starting from mid-2025, foreign investment will continue to flow into China, demonstrating the increasing confidence of international investors in the Chinese market and Chinese assets. Ni Yili stated that currently, the Chinese economy is shifting from scale expansion to a new stage of high-quality development characterized by technology driven and mature stability. He emphasized that China's advantages in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and robotics are beyond doubt, and Chinese companies often occupy half of the world's top ten companies in these areas. Faced with the challenges of new technologies, Chinese enterprises are fundamentally transforming their productivity through technologies such as artificial intelligence and embodied robots. At the same time, the globalization pace of Chinese enterprises is also entering a new stage. Ni Yili proposed that Chinese enterprises are undergoing compulsory courses to integrate into the global innovation ecosystem, achieving global operations through creating employment opportunities overseas, establishing research and development centers, adopting a globalized management team, and exporting corporate culture and business philosophy. As Chinese companies transform into global enterprises, the strategies of multinational corporations operating in China are also changing. Ni Yili said that China is now not only a huge sales market, but also an innovation base for multinational enterprises and a future trend indicator. He pointed out that the fierce competitive environment in China has given rise to extremely frequent product iterations and efficiency improvements. For multinational companies, staying in China is not only to gain market share, but also to maintain their global technological agility and competitiveness by competing with China's local innovation forces. (New Society)