According to the latest VAT invoice data released by the State Taxation Administration, as reported by Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com), my country's manufacturing industry accelerated its intelligent upgrading process in 2025, with the total amount spent by manufacturing enterprises nationwide on purchasing automated and digital equipment increasing by over 10%. Driven by this, sales revenue in the intelligent equipment manufacturing industry increased by 28.1% year-on-year, with industrial robot and special-operation robot manufacturing increasing by 17.4% and 42.1% respectively.
Meanwhile, the integration of digital and physical technologies continued to deepen. In 2025, sales revenue in the national digital product manufacturing industry increased by 9.4% year-on-year; the amount spent by manufacturing enterprises on purchasing digital technologies increased by 10.4% year-on-year, an acceleration of 3.5 percentage points compared to the previous year.
Furthermore, the green transformation of the manufacturing industry is also accelerating. In 2025, the amount spent by manufacturing enterprises on purchasing environmental governance services increased by 7.3% year-on-year, indicating a continuous increase in investment in green governance. The proportion of sales revenue in the national high-energy-consuming manufacturing industry decreased by 1.1 percentage points compared to the previous year, indicating a continued optimization of the industrial structure. New energy-related industries are also developing rapidly, with sales revenue in the new energy vehicle manufacturing industry and the lithium-ion battery manufacturing industry increasing by 14.3% and 25.1% year-on-year, respectively.
