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The Industrial Map of Chinese Manufacturing
We publish structural research industry by industry, at the granularity of individual industrial clusters, built on real factory samples. Every report cross-references two sources — public membership rolls from trade associations, and verified factories identified by Tianxia Gongchang. The full factory list lives on the main platform.
China's Construction Machinery Industry 2026: Heavy Iron Goes Global, the Last Mile from Chaser to Peer
In 2026, on the KHL Yellow Table, XCMG ranks third globally, SANY sixth and Zoomlion tenth—three Chinese firms in the top ten. China dominates concrete pump trucks, leads in large cranes, and electric-loader penetration broke 50% in a year. Yet from the summit—Caterpillar—its makers are still 'one last mile' away: high-end hydraulics, engines and sensors remain constrained, and brand premium still trails. A study of an industry 'big and growing strong, one last mile from the summit.'
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China's Civilian Drone Industry 2026: Strong Yet Besieged — One Company, One Nation's Sky
In 2026, DJI holds roughly 70% of the global consumer-drone market, China's agricultural drones top 300,000 units and enter the No.1 Central Document, and delivery-drone orders outpace Google's Wing—a technologically dominant, globally leading industry. Yet precisely because it is so strong, DJI faces US category-wide sales bans, customs seizures, and supply-chain warfare. This report dissects the era's defining question of a Chinese industry that is 'strong yet besieged.'
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China's Power Tool Industry 2026: From World's Factory to World's Brand, the Next Leg for Hidden Champions
In 2026, Techtronic Industries (TTI) overtook Stanley Black & Decker with USD 15.3 billion in revenue to top the global power-tool industry—a quiet ascent. Yet China makes 60-80% of the world's power tools while brands and premium profits still rest with Milwaukee and Bosch. This report dissects the climb from world's factory to world's brand: the tariff rollercoaster, the cordless revolution and battery platforms, OPE electrification and robotic mowers, and cells displacing Japan and Korea.
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China's Tire Industry 2026: Volume Champion, Quality Climb, and a Second Wave of Globalization Under Tariff Siege
China makes roughly half the world's tires yet earns a margin of only about 3%—the starkest picture of being 'big but not strong.' This report dissects how China climbs from volume champion to quality contender: Sailun's Liquid Gold, the NEV OE reversal, Lighthouse factories, near-90% import dependence on natural rubber, and a second wave of globalization from Southeast Asia to Morocco and Egypt.
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China's Shield Machine and Tunnel-Boring Equipment Industry 2026: From the Qinling Blockade Line to Seventy Percent of the World, and Where to Go After the Summit
From paying RMB 350 million per German machine at Qinling in 1997 to holding roughly 70% of global capacity in 2026 and rolling out a world record almost every month, China's shield-machine industry completed its reversal in under three decades. But after the summit, the concerns are real: 1,500 idle machines, an ebbing metro market, net margins below 5%, and a 300,000-person talent gap. This report dissects how China moves from 'first in manufacturing' to 'first in industrial health.'
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China's Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine Industry 2026: Where AI's Power Hunger Meets a 25-Year March to Self-Reliance
AI data centers have pushed global gas turbine order books beyond 2030, with the Big Three sold out and prices roughly tripling in three years. At precisely this moment, China's homegrown heavy-duty gas turbines completed three critical steps: G50 commercial operation, 300 MW first fire, and export to North America. This 33-chapter report dissects the historic convergence, from hot-section technology and capacity pricing to the export window and its risks.
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Catching Itself: Zhuque-3 and the Industrial Chain Behind China's Private Reusable Rockets
In late 2025 Zhuque-3's maiden flight reached orbit but its first-stage recovery failed; the static-fired Y2 now aims for China's first orbital-class first-stage recovery by a private firm. Tracing the rocket from methalox Tianque engines and a stainless-steel airframe to landing control, reuse economics, constellation launch demand, China's two recovery routes and a supply chain opening to Chinese factories, this report argues reusability is at heart a manufacturing question.
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Catching a Rocket: China's Offshore Net-Capture Recovery and the Reusable-Launch Supply Chain
After the world's first offshore net-capture recovery of an orbital booster, this in-depth report dissects the catch mechanics, the global genealogy of recovery routes, the economics of reuse, and the fiber-net-ship supply chain behind Long March 10B - including a sober debunking of a supplier-attribution frenzy - and closes with three testable forecasts.
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China's Injection Molding Machine Industry 2026: All-Electric, Super-Sized, and Going Global in a Cold-at-Home, Hot-Abroad Market
Haitian International posted RMB 17.733 billion in 2025 revenue with overseas sales up 26.4%, and industry-wide exports hit RMB 13.9 billion in the first ten months — incremental orders for injection molding machines are shifting from China's domestic market to Southeast Asia and Mexico, and rippling upstream through servo systems, screws and barrels, and hydraulic components.
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China's Green Hydrogen and Electrolyzer Equipment Industry (2026): 3 GW of Tenders, 58 GW of Capacity, and the Upstream Order Map
China's domestic electrolyzer tenders reached 3.02 GW in 2025 against roughly 58 GW of nameplate capacity, with extreme alkaline bids down to about RMB 375/kW — this report translates the green hydrogen mega-base boom into an order map for upstream suppliers of diaphragms, electrodes, and rectifier power supplies.
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China's Laser Processing Equipment and Laser Industry in Review (2026): After Localization Is Settled, Where Are the Orders Flowing?
China's laser equipment market returned to 95.8 billion yuan in 2025, Raycus's 10kW-plus laser shipments grew another 26%, and China's share of IPG's revenue fell to around 28% — with the price war over, the procurement hotspots along this industry chain are being reshuffled.
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China's Solid-State Battery Supply Chain (2026): Order Opportunities Along the Materials and Equipment Tracks
Global solid-state battery shipments reached 5.3 GWh in 2024 — all semi-solid-state; in 2026 semi-solid-state vehicle installations are scaling up and leading battery makers' all-solid-state pilot lines are landing in clusters, while lithium sulfide still costs over RMB 3 million per tonne and all-solid-state equipment investment per GWh runs 2–3x that of liquid-electrolyte lines — procurement windows on both the materials and equipment ends are opening at the same time.
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