China’s equipment manufacturing sector became a major driver of export growth in the first half of 2026, with export delivery value of the equipment industry rising 18.2 percent year on year and contributing nearly 50 percent of the growth in industrial exports, official data showed Monday.
In the first half of the year, the country’s exports of wind turbine generators and lithium batteries increased 35.6 percent and 37.6 percent year on year, respectively, while automobile exports reached 5.096 million units, up 65.3 percent from a year earlier, according to Wang Weiming, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
China’s shipbuilding sector also continued to strengthen its global competitiveness, with domestically built vessels accounting for more than 90 percent of the country’s total completed ships, new orders, and existing order backlog.