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Industry and manufacturing
Compare manufacturing value, physical output and technology adoption without confusing production, capacity, sales or installed stock.
Manufacturing value added
34.6747trillion yuan · 2025New energy vehicles
16.524million vehicles · 2025Crude steel production
960.8million tonnes · 2025Industrial robots
354,000units · 2025 annual installationsRead together
Related does not mean interchangeable
Industrial scale has several dimensions: value added measures economic contribution, physical-output series measure production, and automation or advanced-manufacturing indicators describe technology intensity. They answer related but different questions.
Related indicators
11 published measures
Manufacturing value added
Manufacturing value added
China's official 2025 yuan value alongside a World Bank same-source international ranking and long-run trends.
New energy vehicles
New energy vehicles
Annual production, growth, year-end stock and the distinction between output and vehicles on the road.
Crude steel production
Crude steel production
China’s annual crude steel output, same-source world share, the official top-40 table and a public-viewer animation for the 2025 top ten across 2021–2025.
Motor vehicle production
Motor vehicle production
China’s all-vehicle output, historical world share and an OICA same-edition top-ten comparison.
Cement production
Cement production
China’s 2025 cement output, same-edition world share and the USGS top-ten producing-country snapshot.
Shipbuilding industry
Shipbuilding industry
China’s 2024–2025 ship completions, new orders and year-end orderbook, with metric-specific world shares.
Industrial robots
Industrial robots
China’s 2023–2025 industrial robot installations and shares, with exact public operational stock through 2024 and leading customer industries through 2025.
Photovoltaic manufacturing
Photovoltaic manufacturing
China’s 2023–2024 polysilicon, wafer, cell and module production, downstream exports and price changes.
Lithium-ion battery industry
Lithium-ion battery industry
China’s 2023–2024 battery output structure, installed volume, export value, industry output value and lithium-salt indicators.
Integrated circuits
Integrated circuits
China’s 2023–2025 integrated-circuit output, export/import quantities and values, trade gaps and average unit values.
Primary aluminium production
Primary aluminium production
China's 2017–2025 primary aluminium output, plus a fixed 2020–2024 BGS multi-economy production comparison.
International context
World shares require matching source, year and definition
Use China and the World to see which totals support defensible global shares and which rates, per-capita measures or rankings need a different comparison.
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