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<ul><li>China’s gaming industry surged in the first half of 2025, posting its fastest growth in five years, fueled by hit mobile titles, rising e-sports revenues and the continued boom in mini-games.</li><li>According to an report released Thursday by the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association at the ChinaJoy Digital Entertainment Conference in Shanghai, the domestic gaming market generated 168 billion yuan ($23 billion) in revenue from January to June, up 14.1% year-on-year.</li><li>The country counted 679 million gamers, a modest 0.7% rise, marking the fourth straight year of user growth below 1%.</li></ul>

China’s gaming industry surged in the first half of 2025, posting its fastest growth in five years, fueled by hit mobile titles, rising e-sports revenues and the continued boom in mini-games.According to an report released Thursday by the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association at the ChinaJoy Digital Entertainment Conference in Shanghai, the domestic gaming market generated 168 billion yuan ($23 billion) in revenue from January to June, up 14.1% year-on-year.The country counted 679 million gamers, a modest 0.7% rise, marking the fourth straight year of user growth below 1%.

China Proves a Winner in the Gaming Market as Growth Hits a Five-Year High 

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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>China’s online game market revenue grew by 37.5% YoY to RMB28.6bn in Jul 2023, with growth further accelerating (May/Jun: +16.0/23.6% YoY), according to CNG.</li><li>The strong YoY growth was mainly due to the launch of new games and low-base effect.</li><li>Overseas revenue from China’s self-developed games also returned to positive growth track in July (+7.6% YoY), thanks to the solid performance of Tencent’s and NetEase’s overseas mobile games. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China’s online game market revenue grew by 37.5% YoY to RMB28.6bn in Jul 2023, with growth further accelerating (May/Jun: +16.0/23.6% YoY), according to CNG.The strong YoY growth was mainly due to the launch of new games and low-base effect.Overseas revenue from China’s self-developed games also returned to positive growth track in July (+7.6% YoY), thanks to the solid performance of Tencent’s and NetEase’s overseas mobile games. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Internet – July online game market recap

<ul><li>China online game market revenue decreased 2.4% YoY but grew 22% HoH to RMB144.3bn in 1H23, according to GPC</li><li>Supported by the recovery of game supply and paying willingness, online game market revenue returned to positive growth track and was up by 12% YoY in 2Q23, with a 2-year CAGR of 2%.</li><li>We expect China online game market to maintain steady growth momentum in 2H23E, mainly due to the launch of quality new games YTD and the low-base effect. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China online game market revenue decreased 2.4% YoY but grew 22% HoH to RMB144.3bn in 1H23, according to GPCSupported by the recovery of game supply and paying willingness, online game market revenue returned to positive growth track and was up by 12% YoY in 2Q23, with a 2-year CAGR of 2%.We expect China online game market to maintain steady growth momentum in 2H23E, mainly due to the launch of quality new games YTD and the low-base effect. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Internet – Online game sector: rebounded in 2Q23

<ul><li>Chinese regulators approved 89 new video games in June, the largest batch this year, bringing the number of new approvals in the first half to 521 and topping the total for all of last year.</li><li>NetEase, China’s second-largest gaming company, received a license for Where Winds Meet, an interactive open world action-adventure game, for mobile and personal computers.</li><li>Tencent Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest gaming company, was absent from the list after it received several approvals earlier this year.</li></ul>

Chinese regulators approved 89 new video games in June, the largest batch this year, bringing the number of new approvals in the first half to 521 and topping the total for all of last year.NetEase, China’s second-largest gaming company, received a license for Where Winds Meet, an interactive open world action-adventure game, for mobile and personal computers.Tencent Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest gaming company, was absent from the list after it received several approvals earlier this year.

China Clears 89 More New Video Games in June

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NetEase is a Chinese Internet technology company that provides online services across various sectors. Its core businesses include the development and operation of desktop and mobile games, alongside services in news aggregation, music streaming (NetEase Cloud Music), online education (Youdao), advertising, email, and e-commerce (Yanxuan). The company is headquartered in Hangzhou, China, and was founded in June 1997.

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