China's electronic information manufacturing sector posted robust growth in the first half of 2026, with revenue jumping 18.5 percent year-on-year, driven by accelerating production, steady exports, and rising profits and investment.

In the first six months of the year, the value-added output of electronic information manufacturing enterprises above designated size, or those with annual main business revenue of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.96 million U.S. dollars), expanded 14.8 percent from a year earlier, outpacing the broader industrial sector by 9.4 percentage points and high-tech manufacturing by 1.5 percentage points, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Production of industrial robots soared 28 percent year-on-year to 538,000 units, while new energy vehicle output rose 6 percent to nearly 7.4 million units.
China's electronic information exports remained steady, with delivery value rising 7.8 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year, up by 1.7 percentage points compared with the January-May period.
The industry's profitability also strengthened. Total operating revenue reached 9.41 trillion yuan (about 1.39 trillion dollars), while profits climbed to 577.7 billion yuan (about 85.57 trillion dollars). In June alone, monthly revenue surged 24.7 percent year-on-year to 1.89 trillion yuan (about 280 billion dollars).
Compared to the same period of last year, fixed-asset investment in the sector grew 6.5 percent in the first six months, slightly down by 0.2 percentage points from the rise recorded in the first five months, but still outpacing the overall industrial investment growth rate by 7.6 percentage points.