China’s value-added industrial output increased by 5.3 percent year on year in the first nine months of 2026, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In September, value-added industrial output rose 5.5% year on year, accelerating by 0.3 percentage points from August, the data showed.

Industrial output is used to measure the activity of large enterprises each with an annual main business revenue of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.98 million U.S. dollars).

Despite a complex environment, China’s industrial sector maintained steady growth and made further progress in the first three quarters, Mao Shengyong, deputy head of the NBS, said at a press conference.

A breakdown of the data showed that the manufacturing sector grew by 5.7% in the first nine months of this year and 6.0% in September alone. By product, in September, the production of 271 out of 626 kinds of products increased year-on-year. Among them, fabric output increased by 1.2% year-on-year in September to 2.6 billion meters and grew by 3.3% year-on-year from January to September to 22.4 billion meters. And the output of chemical fibers grew by 0.4% year-on-year in September to 7.2 million tons and increased 0.7% year-on-year to 63.12 million tons in the first three quarters of 2026.

Source: CHINA TEXTILE LEADER Express