China’s manufacturing sector has accelerated its shift toward intelligent, green, and integrated development, further solidifying its role as a stabilizing "ballast stone" in the economy, according to the tax authority. In 2025, the manufacturing sector saw its sales revenue grow by 1.7 percentage points higher than the national average. Manufacturing accounted for 29.7% of the country’s total sales, marking a year-on-year increase of 0.5 percentage points.

Value-added tax (VAT) invoice data shows that in 2025, expenditure on automated equipment and digital equipment from manufacturers nationwide increased by 11.3% and 10% year-on-year, respectively, indicating an accelerated pace of intelligent transformation and digitalization in the manufacturing sector. Sales revenue of the intelligent equipment manufacturing industry increased by 28.1% year-on-year, with the manufacturing of industrial robots and special-purpose robots registering growths of 17.4% and 42.1% year-on-year respectively.

Comparingly, the proportion of sales revenue from energy-intensive manufacturing within the manufacturing sector declined by 1.1 percentage points compared to the previous year, suggesting that China’s industrial structure is being continuously optimized. Manufacturing enterprises’ spending on environmental management services increased by 7.3% year-on-year, while those of energy-intensive manufacturing enterprises rose by 14.6% year-on-year, reflecting increased investment in green governance.

In 2025, both the sales revenue of the digital product manufacturing industry and the expenditure on digital technology procurement by manufacturing enterprises recorded year-on-year growth. Notably, the digital technology procurement rose in the automotive manufacturing and computer communication equipment manufacturing sectors by 24.5% and 11.8% respectively, highlighting the deepening integration of the digital economy with the real economy.