The number of people living with has surged by 14 per cent, with most cases transmitted through sex rather than blood transfusions, state media said Saturday.
More than 40,000 new HIV/AIDS cases were reported in the second quarter alone, with 93.1 percent having contracted the virus through sex.
The number of HIV infections caused by blood transfusions has "essentially been reduced to zero", according to Xinhua.
China has been hit by blood transfusion scandals in the past.
In the 1990s, rural parts of China -- particularly the central province of Henan -- endured the country's most debilitating AIDS epidemic.
It stemmed from a tainted government-backed blood donation programme and infected tens of thousands of people, including entire villages.
In 2015, state media reported the case of a five-year-old girl who had contracted HIV through a blood transfusion during an operation for congenital heart disease.
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