Industry serves as the "ballast stone" for the national economy. In 2025, the value-added of industrial enterprises above a designated size in Hebei Province increased by 7.9% year-on-year, surpassing the national average by 2 percentage points and ranking 6th nationwide. Both the growth rate and the ranking represent the best performance in the past decade. Where does Hebei's rapid industrial growth originate? What are the key drivers behind this upward trend? "Hebei's Progress in Numbers" provides the analysis.
Welding, handling, and gluing are completed seamlessly in a single, continuous process. On the battery shell intelligent production line at Ling Yun Industrial Corporation Limited's North China Company, a finished product rolls off the line every 212 seconds on average. How is such high efficiency achieved? Zhu Baojun, a Skill Leader at Ling Yun Group, explained that all processes are automated by equipment. Compared to the past, where workers had to manually move items between stations, a single robot now handles this task, significantly boosting production efficiency.
This production line is also equipped with an intelligent traceability system capable of tracking the manufacturing parameters of every single product. The intelligent transformation brings more than just efficiency gains; it also ensures stable product quality, with a first-pass yield rate reaching 99.5%. Zong Hui, the workshop supervisor, informed reporters that the smooth progress of the production line's intelligent upgrade was strongly supported by the industry and information technology authorities.
Zong Hui, Workshop Section Chief at Ling Yun Industrial Corporation Limited's North China Company, stated that during the intelligent transformation of their production line, they received nearly one million yuan in technical renovation funds from the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology. Currently, this intelligent line has an annual production capacity of nearly 100,000 battery shells, supplying global high-end new energy vehicle models. In 2025, their output value increased by 16% compared to the previous year.
Strong policy support fuels robust industrial development. Including Ling Yun Group, Hebei's high-end equipment industry achieved double-digit growth in 2025, with the sector's cumulative growth reaching 10.9%, contributing 2.2 percentage points to the growth of industrial enterprises above the designated size province-wide. Breaking down by sub-sector, the value-added of the automotive manufacturing industry in the province grew by 5.9%.
In the robotics field, the cumulative output of industrial robots and service robots increased by 29.3% and 11.3%, respectively. The general equipment manufacturing sector grew by 18.2%, contributing 0.4 percentage points to the province's overall industrial growth. If the strong growth of the high-end equipment industry demonstrates the formidable strength of "Hebei Manufacturing," then in the field of emerging industries, Hebei's innovation engine is accelerating comprehensively.
This technology company located in the Xiong'an New Area specializes in the research and development of communication and computing power chips. In 2025, they successfully developed the world's first new-type satellite communication chip. This product is expected to achieve large-scale application in various fields such as mobile phone satellite communication, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and emergency communication in the future.
Ma Yujie, Director of the Strategic Technology Innovation Department at Xinsheng Technology Co., Ltd., stated that they have established an integrated layout encompassing security chips, communication chips, computing chips, and solutions. In 2025, the company's total sales revenue exceeded 400 million yuan, and the sales volume of chips surpassed 370 million units. Ma Yujie, the head of strategic technology innovation, reported that the continuous breakthrough progress of the company's innovative products benefits from the strong support for enterprise innovation from Hebei Province and the Xiong'an New Area.
The company has successively applied for and obtained approval to undertake the Ministry of Science and Technology's Xiong'an New Area Innovation Special Project, as well as multiple technological innovation projects from the Hebei Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Science and Technology, and the Department of Industry and Information Technology. The accompanying policy and financial support have effectively propelled the company's R&D breakthroughs in key technology areas like satellite communication and artificial intelligence.
Ma Yujie, Director of the Strategic Technology Innovation Department at Xinsheng Technology Co., Ltd., added that in 2026, they will continue to focus on technological breakthroughs in chips based on RISC-V. Key areas will include AI edge computing power chips for AI smart toys and embodied robots, and broadband satellite internet communication chips for emergency support, public safety, and marine communication. Simultaneously, they will further expand the capacity of their chip production lines, aiming for an increase of over 20%.
Innovation drives the release of vigorous industrial momentum. In 2025, the province's new-generation information technology industry grew by a cumulative 11.6%, contributing 0.4 percentage points to the provincial growth rate. Demand in high value-added fields such as semiconductors and memory chips was steadily released; from January to December, the provincial output of semiconductor discrete devices and displays increased by 13.8% and 27.2% year-on-year, respectively.
In 2025, the value-added of industrial enterprises above a designated size in Hebei Province increased by 7.9% year-on-year, 0.4 percentage points higher than the previous year, 2 percentage points above the national average, and ranked 6th nationally. Hu Wenlong, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, suggested that Hebei's industrial performance above the designated size in 2025 can be summarized with several keywords: leading growth rate, structural renewal, and innovation-driven energy aggregation.
Leading growth rate is reflected in the decade-high growth rate and national ranking of industrial value-added, demonstrating strong growth momentum. Structural renewal is evident not only in the accelerated development of emerging industries but also in the advancement of traditional industries towards the medium and high-end. Small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular, have leveraged the new model of "shared intelligent manufacturing" to achieve quality improvement and efficiency gains.
Innovation-driven energy aggregation is manifested in Hebei achieving the top ranking nationally for comprehensive computing power, and the application of large-scale AI models in various industries such as steel, chemicals, ports, and healthcare. These factors are accumulating crucial momentum for future development. Overall, new quality productive forces are accelerating their growth within Hebei's industrial sector above the designated size. Driven by a series of coordinated policies targeting both existing stock and new increments, Hu Wenlong believes that Hebei's trend of renewed and optimized industrial growth is expected to continue into 2026, with the foundation for high-quality development becoming even more solid.
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