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In October 2025, China’s new quality productivity continues to grow, with the innovative industry experiencing strong growth. According to the latest VAT invoice data released by the State Administration of Taxation, the sales revenue of high-tech industries increased by 13.6% year-on-year, with several sub-sectors achieving double-digit growth, demonstrating the trend of China’s manufacturing industry accelerating towards high-end, intelligent, and green development.
🚀 High-tech Manufacturing Accelerates, with “Artificial Intelligence +” as a Key Driver
With the deepening implementation of the “Artificial Intelligence +” initiative, several high-tech industry indicators shone in October:
- • Integrated Circuit Manufacturing: Year-on-year growth of 32.5%;
- • Industrial Robot Manufacturing: Year-on-year growth of 41.7%;
- • Drone Manufacturing: Year-on-year growth of 38.4%.
These three fields have become important supports for driving new quality productivity, marking the accelerated formation of the intelligent manufacturing system. Especially in the industrial robot and drone industries, the continuous improvement of intelligent and flexible production capabilities is driving more industries to complete the transformation of “machine substitution” and “aerial empowerment”.
🏭 Rise of High-end Equipment Manufacturing, Continuous Optimization of Industrial Structure
As the core sector of industry, the equipment manufacturing industry saw a year-on-year sales revenue growth of 7.3% in October, continuing to exceed the average level of manufacturing, accounting for nearly half of the total manufacturing output. Among them:
- • Computer and Communication Equipment Manufacturing: +10.1%;
- • Shipbuilding and Related Equipment Manufacturing: +24.4%;
- • Battery Manufacturing: +27.2%.
These growth figures not only reflect the resilience and potential of high-end manufacturing but also indicate that our country is steadily moving from a “manufacturing giant” to a “strong manufacturing nation”.
🌐 Deepening Integration of Digital and Physical, Digital Economy Injects New Vitality
In October, the sales revenue of the core industries of the digital economy increased by 8.5% year-on-year, and the amount spent by enterprises on digital technology increased by 9.6%, demonstrating the effectiveness of the dual-driven approach of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization:
- • Digital Product Service Industry sales revenue grew by 10.2%;
- • Digital Technology Application Industry growth of 13.1%.
Digital technology is rapidly penetrating the entire manufacturing chain, enhancing the innovation efficiency and market response speed of enterprises from R&D design, production manufacturing to intelligent operation and maintenance.
✈️ Drone Industry: The “Engine of Takeoff” for New Quality Productivity
Among all high-tech sectors, the growth of the drone industry is particularly noteworthy. As a representative of “new quality productivity”, drone manufacturing achieved a 38.4% year-on-year growth, driven by multiple factors:
- 1. Policy Support— Local governments are successively introducing low-altitude economic industry plans;
- 2. Technological Upgrades— New technologies such as AI visual recognition and digital twins empower flight control systems;
- 3. Application Expansion— Rapid growth in logistics, agriculture, security, emergency rescue, and other fields.
In the future, with the improvement of the low-altitude airspace management system and the promotion of urban air mobility (UAM) commercialization pilots, the drone industry will continue to be an important growth pole for high-tech manufacturing.
