China’s Generative AI User Base Tops 700 Million, Penetration Passes 50%

The headline number matters less than the threshold it crosses: generative AI in China has moved from an early-adopter tool to a majority-of-population utility, which changes the commercial logic from user acquisition to retention and monetization. The report's framing around industry applications and policy signals that the regulatory and deployment environment is being treated as infrastructure rather than an experimental sector. For RWA and crypto markets, the relevant question is whether that scale translates into demand for verifiable data, identity and settlement rails — an open question, since the report itself concerns usage, not on-chain activity.