China Business Intelligence Network reports: High-end CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine tools refer to numerically controlled machine tools capable of achieving high-precision, high-complexity, high-efficiency, and high-dynamic processing. Since the start of this year, driven by emerging industries such as humanoid robots and new energy vehicles, orders for machine tool enterprises have surged, with particularly strong demand for mid-to-high-end CNC machine tools.
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
As the "brain" of CNC machine tools, the NC system is a key factor determining the performance, functions, and reliability of high-end CNC machine tools. Generally, an NC system consists of three parts: a control system, a servo system, and a detection system. In recent years, driven by downstream demand, the market scale of China's NC system has continued to expand steadily.According to the 2025-2030 China High-End NC System Industry Market Status Survey and Development Trend Forecast Research Report released by the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market scale of China's NC system reached approximately 29.073 billion yuan in 2024. Analysts from the China Commercial Industry Research Institute predict that the industry's market scale will exceed 31 billion yuan in 2025.
Source of Data: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
The NC system industry in China is divided into three major competitive echelons:
The first echelon consists of international leading enterprises, which master the core technologies of high-end NC systems (such as five-axis linkage and intelligent control).The second echelon comprises domestic leading enterprises, which possess the R&D capabilities for a full set of NC technologies and have gradually made breakthroughs in the mid-to-high-end market.The third echelon includes enterprises focusing on niche segments, which concentrate on specific market segments (such as robot control and servo drive) and achieve rapid technological iteration.
Source of Data: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
In recent years, the market scale of the servo system has shown a fluctuating growth trend. According to the 2025-2030 China Servo System Industry Market Prospect Survey and Investment & Financing Strategy Research Report released by the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market scale of China's servo system reached approximately 22 billion yuan in 2023, with a year-on-year growth of 6.8%, and the market scale in 2024 was about 23.4 billion yuan. Analysts from the China Commercial Industry Research Institute predict that the market scale of China's servo system will reach 24.8 billion yuan in 2025.
Source of Data: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
As one of the world’s largest electronic markets, China has witnessed continuous expansion in the market scale of intelligent sensors. According to the 2025-2030 Global and China Intelligent Sensor Market Survey and Industry Prospect Forecast Special Research Report released by the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market scale of China’s intelligent sensors reached 155.12 billion yuan in 2024. Analysts from the China Commercial Industry Research Institute predict that the market scale of China’s intelligent sensors will exceed 170 billion yuan in 2025.
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The intelligent sensor market encompasses a wide range of product categories. Currently, the products in China’s intelligent sensor market are dominated by MEMS sensors and CIS image sensors, accounting for 29.7% and 26.5% of the market share respectively, with their combined market share exceeding 50%.
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
Driven by policy support and technological advancement, China’s intelligent sensor industry has developed rapidly, with a number of powerful intelligent sensor enterprises emerging, such as Goertek Inc., Goodix Technology, Will Semiconductor, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) Technology. These enterprises have strong competitiveness in fields such as consumer electronics and automotive electronics; they not only hold a place in the domestic market but also actively explore the international market.
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
CNC machine tools, or Computer Numerical Control machine tools, are automated machine tools equipped with a program control system. In recent years, the CNC machine tool market has shown a trend of rapid development, with the industry scale continuously expanding and the overall operation maintaining a stable and positive momentum.
According to the 2025-2030 China CNC Machine Tool Industry Survey and Development Prospect Analysis Report released by the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market scale of China’s CNC machine tools reached approximately 432.5 billion yuan in 2024. Analysts from the China Commercial Industry Research Institute predict that the industry’s market scale will exceed 450 billion yuan in 2025.
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Five-axis CNC machine tools represent the relatively high technological level in the current field of "industrial mother machines" (core industrial equipment). In China, five-axis linkage CNC machine tools are mainly applied in industries such as aerospace, military, mold manufacturing, automotive, and shipbuilding. Currently, domestic demand continues to grow, driving rapid expansion of the market scale.
According to the 2025-2030 China CNC Machine Tool Market Demand Forecast and Development Trend Prospective Report released by the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market scale of China’s five-axis linkage CNC machine tools reached approximately 12 billion yuan in 2024. Analysts from the China Commercial Industry Research Institute predict that in 2025, the market scale of China’s five-axis linkage CNC machine tools will continue to grow, exceeding 13 billion yuan.
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CNC machine tool enterprises in China are mainly positioned in the mid-to-low-end market. Although the penetration rate of high-end products is on the rise, it still remains at a relatively low level. Currently, the localization rates of China’s mid-end and low-end CNC machine tools are 65% and 82% respectively, while the localization rate of high-end CNC machine tools is only 6%—indicating significant room for localization in the high-end CNC machine tool segment.
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
The competition pattern of China’s high-end CNC machine tool industry is characterized by foreign-funded enterprises occupying a dominant position in the high-end market, while domestic enterprises are accelerating their catch-up. The competition in China’s high-end CNC machine tool market is becoming increasingly fierce: foreign-funded enterprises will further increase their investment in the Chinese market, and domestic enterprises will also accelerate their transformation and upgrading.
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
The distribution of China’s high-end CNC machine tool industry presents obvious regional agglomeration characteristics, mainly concentrating in four major regions: the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, the Northeast Old Industrial Base, and the Central China region. Each region has formed differentiated competitive advantages based on policy support, industrial chain supporting facilities, technological innovation capabilities, and other factors.
Source of Information: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
In recent years, enterprises in China’s automobile manufacturing industry have achieved outstanding performance. The operating revenue of above-scale manufacturing enterprises increased from 8.15577 trillion yuan in 2020 to 10.64701 trillion yuan in 2024, and the total profit of above-scale manufacturing enterprises reached 462.26 billion yuan in 2024.
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In 2024, automobile production and sales volume reached 31.282 million units and 31.436 million units respectively, with year-on-year growth rates of 3.7% and 4.5% respectively. In January 2025, automobile production and sales volume stood at 2.45 million units and 2.423 million units respectively; the production volume increased by 1.7% year-on-year, while the sales volume decreased by 0.6% year-on-year.
Source of Data: China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) and China Commercial Industry Research Institute, Compiled by
In recent years, with the rapid development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), the semiconductor equipment industry has ushered in new development opportunities, and its market scale has continued to expand.
According to the 2025-2030 China Semiconductor Equipment Industry Market Supply-Demand Trends and Development Strategy Research and Forecast Report released by the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market scale of China’s semiconductor equipment exceeded 230 billion yuan in 2024. Analysts from the China Commercial Industry Research Institute predict that the market scale of China’s semiconductor equipment will surpass 250 billion yuan in 2025.
Source of Data: Compiled by China Commercial Industry Research Institute
In 2024, China’s national shipbuilding completion volume reached 48.18 million deadweight tons (DWT), a year-on-year increase of 13.8%; the newly received order volume stood at 113.05 million DWT, a year-on-year increase of 58.8%; as of the end of December, the backlog order volume was 208.72 million DWT, a year-on-year increase of 58.8%.
In terms of deadweight tons, China’s national shipbuilding completion volume, newly received order volume, and backlog order volume accounted for 55.7%, 74.1%, and 63.1% of the global total respectively; in terms of compensated gross tons (CGT), they accounted for 50.3%, 68.2%, and 55.4% of the global total respectively.
Source of Data: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China (MIIT) and China Commercial Industry Research Institute, Compiled by
Source of Data: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China (MIIT) and China Commercial Industry Research Institute, Compiled by
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