China’s value-added industrial output expanded 5.9% year on year in 2025, official data showed. In December alone, China’s industrial output increased by 5.2% year on year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

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 US$2.8 million).

A breakdown of the data showed that the manufacturing sector’s value-added output grew by 6.4% in 2025.

By product, in December, the production of 325 out of 623 kinds of products increased year-on-year. Among them, fabric output increased by 3.8% year-on-year in December to 3 billion meters and grew by 0.2% year-on-year from January to December to 30.7 billion meters. And the output of chemical fibers grew by 6.4% year-on-year in December to 7.82 million tons and increased 4.9% year-on-year to 87.01 million in 2025.

Source: CHINA TEXTILE LEADER Express