Against the backdrop of the vigorous development of high-end, intelligent, and green initiatives, China’s manufacturing industry continues to advance industrial upgrading and transformation, providing stable support for high-quality industrial development. Currently, China’s equipment manufacturing industry has moved beyond the single path of “scale expansion” and entered a stage of “quality and efficiency improvement”.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in June 2025, the revenue and profit of China’s equipment manufacturing industry achieved rapid growth. Data shows that in June, the revenue of the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 7% year-on-year, 0.3 percentage points faster than that in May; profits turned from a 2.9% decline in May to a 9.6% growth, driving the profit growth of all large-scale industrial enterprises by 3.8 percentage points.
Growth of the Equipment Manufacturing Industry from January to May 2025:
In May 2025, the added value of China’s equipment manufacturing industry increased by 9.0% year-on-year, and that of high-tech manufacturing industry grew by 8.6%, which were 3.2 and 2.8 percentage points faster than the added value of all large-scale industrial enterprises, respectively.
In April 2025, the added value of China’s equipment manufacturing industry rose by 9.8% year-on-year, while the added value of high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 10.0%, outpacing the added value of all large-scale industrial enterprises by 3.7 and 3.9 percentage points, respectively.
From January to March 2025, the profits of China’s equipment manufacturing industry grew by 6.4% year-on-year, and the profits of high-tech manufacturing industry shifted from a 5.8% decline to a 3.5% growth.
Amid the robust progress of high-end, intelligent, and green development, China’s manufacturing industry keeps promoting industrial upgrading and transformation, offering steady support for high-quality industrial growth. Additionally, relying on new-generation information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, the manufacturing industry has realized intelligent management of the production process, improving production efficiency and product quality.
The latest data released by the National Organization Unified Social Credit Code Data Service Center shows that as of the end of May 2025, the total number of equipment manufacturing enterprises in China reached 2.46 million, with 71,000 newly established since 2025, among which over 60% belong to the high-end equipment sector.
As observed by the Intelligent Manufacturing Network, these newly established enterprises include not only traditional equipment manufacturing enterprises transforming and upgrading toward high-end fields but also a large number of emerging innovative enterprises. They will demonstrate strong development potential in cutting-edge fields such as robotics, intelligent manufacturing, and aerospace, injecting fresh “blood” into the high-quality development of China’s manufacturing industry.
In terms of regional cluster development, the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Bohai Rim regions contribute 65% of the national output value of high-end equipment manufacturing. With solid industrial foundations, complete industrial chain supporting facilities, and abundant reserves of scientific and technological talents, these regions have become key engines driving the rapid development of China’s high-end equipment manufacturing industry.
The Yangtze River Delta region, relying on cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, focuses on fields like high-end CNC machine tools and industrial robots, and has built an internationally competitive intelligent manufacturing industrial system.
The Pearl River Delta region, with cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou as its core, vigorously develops emerging industrial clusters such as integrated circuits and smart wearable devices, continuously enhancing the modernization level of the industrial chain.
The Bohai Rim region, leveraging the scientific research advantages and industrial foundations of cities including Beijing, Tianjin, and Qingdao, has made remarkable achievements in fields such as aerospace equipment and new energy vehicles, forming a number of innovative enterprises with international influence.
Conclusion:
At present, China’s equipment manufacturing industry has stepped out of the single path of “scale expansion” and shifted to the stage of “quality and efficiency improvement”. In the future, with the in-depth advancement of intelligentization, greenization, and globalization, the equipment manufacturing industry will further climb to the high end of the global value chain and become a core growth pole of new productive forces!
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