Robotic arms carry out packaging operation at the Global Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park of Yili Modern Intelligent Health Valley in Tumd Left Banner in Hohhot, north China"s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, April 17, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua)

　　In 2025, China’s major industrial enterprises achieved profit growth, reversing the downward spiral from 2022 to 2024, with new growth sectors such as equipment and high-tech manufacturing playing an increasingly prominent role, an official from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday.

　　According to the NBS, last year, profits of major industrial enterprises rose by 0.6 percent year-on-year. Manufacturing profits grew by 5.0 percent, a significant rebound of 8.9 percentage points from a year earlier.

　　In December, monthly profit of industrial enterprises turned from a decline of 13.1 percent in November to a growth of 5.3 percent, representing a rebound of 18.4 percentage points, NBS data showed.

　　NBS statistician Yu Weining said that equipment manufacturing provided solid support for high-quality upgrading of Chinese enterprises. In 2025, profits of equipment manufacturing enterprises rose by 7.7 percent, contributing 2.8 percentage points to the overall profit growth of all industrial enterprises above the government’s designated size, making it the sector with the strongest pulling effect on the profit growth, Yu noted.