Guangzhou (JLC), June 16, 2025--China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.8% year on year in May 2025, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday.
On a month-on-month comparison, industrial output rose by 0.61%.
The manufacturing industry saw its value-added output climb by 6.2% year on year last month, with that of high-tech equipment rising by 8.6%, the NBS data shows.
Meanwhile, the mining industry recorded a 5.7% gain in value-added output, and the electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply industry saw a 2.2% increase.
In a breakdown by ownership, the output of state-owned enterprises went up by 3.8% in the month, while that of private enterprises mounted by 5.9%, the NBS data indicates. The output of joint-equity enterprises and overseas-funded enterprises moved up by 6.3% and 3.9%, respectively.
In the first five months of this year, the country’s industrial output expanded by 6.3% from a year before, the NBS data also shows.
China's industrial output, officially called industrial value added, is used to measure the activity of large enterprises each with an annual main business turnover of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.79 million U.S. dollars).
