Update: China's industrial output up 5.9 pct in 2025

BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's value-added industrial output expanded 5.9 percent year on year in 2025, official data showed on Monday.

In December alone, China's industrial output increased by 5.2 percent year on year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The industrial output is used to measure the activity of large enterprises, each with an annual main business turnover of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.8 million U.S. dollars).

A breakdown of the data showed that the mining sector's value-added output increased by 5.6 percent year on year in 2025, while that of the manufacturing sector grew by 6.4 percent. The value-added output of the electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply sectors rose by 2.3 percent.

In 2025, the value-added output of China's equipment manufacturing industry increased by 9.2 percent, and that of the high-tech manufacturing industry rose by 9.4 percent, 3.3 percentage points and 3.5 percentage points faster than the growth rate of the country's industrial output, respectively.

The proportion of the equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing sectors in the country's industrial output amounted to 36.8 percent and 17.1 percent, respectively, Kang Yi, head of the NBS, said at a press conference on Monday.

Kang also highlighted the fast expansion of the low-altitude economy, embodied intelligence, civil drones and industrial robots.

The value-added output of 3D printing equipment, industrial robots and new energy vehicles increased by 52.5 percent, 28 percent and 25.1 percent, respectively, the NBS data showed. ■