Source : WAM
China’s major industrial enterprises saw profit growth in 2025, reversing the decline experienced from 2022 to 2024, with emerging sectors like equipment manufacturing and high-tech industries playing an increasingly significant role, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.
The NBS reported that profits of major industrial enterprises increased by 0.6 percent year-on-year in 2025. Manufacturing profits rose by 5.0 percent, marking a rebound of 8.9 percentage points compared with the previous year.
Data from the NBS, cited by the Global Times, showed that in December, monthly profits of industrial enterprises shifted from a 13.1 percent decline in November to growth of 5.3 percent, reflecting a rebound of 18.4 percentage points.
Profits of small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as foreign-invested enterprises, also moved from negative to positive growth in 2025, with full-year profits rising by 1.4 percent and 4.2 percent, respectively, compared with declines of 1.9 percent and 1.7 percent in 2024.
