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Eunice Xu

Ant Group’s artificial intelligence health app AQ surpassed 100 million users during the Spring Festival holiday, the company said, underlining growing momentum in China’s AI-driven healthcare sector.
The app topped China’s Apple App Store overall download rankings for several consecutive days over the holiday period, according to Ant Group.
Ant Group attributed the surge in part to younger, tech-savvy consumers who, after returning home for Spring Festival gatherings, shared the app with their families to help monitor their well-being, particularly elderly parents and grandparents.
Ant Group is an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the South China Morning Post.
AQ also gained visibility through a marketing push tied to this year’s Spring Festival Gala, one of the world’s most-watched television broadcasts, in which the app featured in a comedy skit.
Adoption broadened beyond China’s largest cities, with third-tier cities and below accounting for 52 per cent of new users during the holiday, the company said.
AQ’s most popular features include AI-powered health consultations, skin-condition analysis and virtual medical advice, alongside personalised wellness tracking and digital health records.
With more than 100 million users, AQ is now the world’s largest AI-native health app by user base, Ant Group claimed.
The rise of AI health apps in China comes as the country navigates a rapidly ageing demographic. Citizens aged 65 and above accounted for 15.6 per cent of the population in 2024, up from 13.5 per cent in 2020, according to official data.

The share of people aged 60 and above is projected exceed 30 per cent by 2035, representing more than 400 million individuals, based on estimates from the National Health Commission.
Combined with a record low birth rate and a shrinking pool of caregivers, the demographic shift is creating a vast opportunity for technology-enabled healthcare services, with AI expected to play a central role.
Major Chinese technology firms are expanding their own AI healthcare offerings.
Tencent Healthcare said its AI-powered mini-programme had served nearly 900 million cumulative WeChat users by the end of 2025.
Baidu launched Wenxin Health Steward in December as an AI family doctor service, while JD Health said its AI Jingyi platform now includes more than 1,500 specialised physician AI agents.
Huawei Cloud in February introduced its Smart Healthcare Zone, enabling grass roots doctors to conduct AI-assisted pathological analysis using standard local workstations.


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Ant’s AQ health app breaks through 100 million users amid holiday surge

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Growth comes as China’s ageing population fuels demand for AI-assisted health monitoring tools.