China's electronic information manufacturing industry is set to embark on a transformative journey from scale expansion to quality enhancement and resilience building during the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period, experts and corporate executives said.
Guo Chaoxian, a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said while the global competition landscape is forecast to continue becoming more decentralized and regionalized in the upcoming years, China's international competitiveness in electronic information manufacturing is expected to strengthen further.
Revenue of China's major electronic information manufacturing enterprises has grown steadily from 14.1 trillion yuan ($2.1 trillion) in 2021 to 17.4 trillion yuan in 2025, achieving an average annual growth rate of 5.4 percent, driven by consumer electronics upgrades and surging global digital transformation demand, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The industry's global footprint has been further cemented. For instance, according to the China Photovoltaic Industry Association, by the end of 2025, China's production capacity accounted for 96 percent of global polysilicon, 96.2 percent of wafer, 91.3 percent of cell and 80.1 percent of module production — all ranking first worldwide.
