China's industrial strength, coupled with its deepening market openness and technological advantages, will generate concrete opportunities for businesses worldwide and offer a robust counter to groundless Western portrayals of the nation's industrial capacity as "China Shock 2.0", experts and executives said.
Their comments came amid a growing trend of certain economies, anxious about their own lack of industrial edge and market standing, hyping up the so-called "overcapacity" narrative against China, framing its production as a threat to global markets and even ratcheting up restrictions on China.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Commerce released a position paper offering a comprehensive rebuttal to unfounded Western accusations of "overcapacity", explicitly stating that such claims are politically motivated and threaten to destabilize global supply chains and undermine the multilateral trading system.
Data from the ministry showed that China's industrial capacity utilization rate remained within a reasonable range in 2025, with the overall rate for industrial enterprises above designated size standing at 74.4 percent.
The capacity utilization rate — the ratio of actual output to potential output — is the internationally accepted measure for assessing excess capacity.
