China Capacity Utilization

Last Release

Sep 30, 2025

Actual

74.6

Units In

Frequency

Quarterly

Next Release

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Time to Release

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Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
78.4 Jun 2021	67.3 Mar 2020	75.42 %	2013-2025	National Bureau of Statistics of China

In China, Capacity Utilization is the difference between the potential and actual use of an input. Capacity utilization is high when actual output is close to potential output because the most use is being made of labor and capital. The survey includes about 90,000 industrial enterprises.

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China’s industrial capacity utilization rate decreased to 74.6 percent in the third quarter of 2025 from 75.1 percent in the same period a year earlier. The decline was driven by lower production in the mining (72.5 percent vs 74.6 percent in Q3 of 2024) and manufacturing industry (74.8 percent vs 75.2 percent). Meanwhile, utilization rate remained unchanged for electricity, heat, gas, and water supply (at 74.3 percent). Compared to the second quarter, the industrial capacity utilization was at 74 percent or 0.6 percentage points higher. For the first three quarters of 2025, capacity utilization averaged at 74.2 percent, down 0.4 percentage points in the same period a year ago.