Tianxia Gongchang Industrial Research
The Industrial Map of Chinese Manufacturing
Research on China’s manufacturing clusters, technology landscape and corporate map, organised by industry and by cluster, built on data covering 4.8 million factories and public industry sources.
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In focus
The latest white papers and long-form research
Shedding the Black Leather Jacket After Thirty Years, Jensen Huang’s Bitter Winter and Dawn in the East: The Battle to Reconstruct the Global Computing Matrix
Latest
The Manufacturing Ledger of an AI Data Hall: Power, Cooling and Interconnects
A Power Plant’s Second Life: China’s Transformation of Panshan’s Aging Units
The Factories the Third Front Left Behind: Migration, Industrial Support, and Industrial Cities
A Connection in the Deep Sea: China’s Work on Underwater Connectors
China's Manufacturing Outlook After Congress Changes Hands
Four sections
One dataset, four ways of reading it
Industry Reports
Full-picture breakdown of a single industry, on one consistent framework
Industrial History
Long-arc narratives on how today's landscape came to be
Regional Industrial Map
Province × industry, laid out cell by cell
Research Notes
Working judgements and method notes, with changes logged
Data highlights
Key figures from published reports. Each links to the source report and its definitions.
181.4bn RMB
Low-voltage switchgear exports in 2025 (customs basis)
1.65 times the domestic market of RMB 109.9 bn in the same year.
China Low-Voltage Switchgear Market White Paper 2026
12.32m units
Elevators in service in China at end-2025
The installed base keeps growing while new installations have peaked.
China Elevator Industry 2026
73.6%
Share of general-servo market growth captured by the leading vendor
All other vendors combined grew by 2.9%.
China General Servo Market White Paper 2026
Recent research
The latest from every section
The Usability of Factory Lists: A Three-Layer Acceptance Framework
The same factory list can produce several times the output in one sales team as in another. This article proposes a three-layer acceptance framework — database truthfulness, terminology alignment, and contact level — with an executable test and criterion for each layer, to estimate a list's usability before follow-up begins.
The Alignment Problem in Factory Data: Identity, Status, Capability, Contact
Factory information is not scarce; what is scarce is the ability to align information scattered across websites, storefronts, recruitment, certifications, and annual reports onto a single entity. This article sets out a four-layer structure for factory data, explains how four common misalignments arise, and discusses what factories can do about it.
Two Paths for AI Investment in Manufacturing: The Threshold Gap Between the Line Side and the Business Side
Both are called AI, but production-line and business-side projects differ by an order of magnitude in data acquisition, tolerance for error, and maintenance ownership. This article decomposes the cost structure of both, explains why most small and mid-sized manufacturers start on the business side, and sets out three criteria for judging whether a production-line project has the conditions to begin.
The Acceptance Bottleneck: Industry Implications and Investment Criteria for the Super-agent Architectural Shift
Generation costs keep falling; acceptance capacity is bounded by human judgment. Recomputed from the article's own data, a single Router runs at about 0.93 utilization at 40 triggers per minute. Scenarios divide into three classes by acceptance latency.
Recomputing the Super-agent Architecture: Router Headroom, Memory Placement, and Task Settlement
Recomputed from the article's own published figures, a single Router session already runs at about 0.93 utilization at roughly 40 triggers per minute, far less headroom than the article claims. The root cause is that routing and global memory sit in the same session. The report also identifies the settlement stage that all five modules omit.
A Bucket of Water, a Radar, a Vat of Penicillin: Five Manufacturing Problems on the Logistics Lines of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
Five battlefield details yield five manufacturing capabilities that never appear in an output table: damage tolerance, maintainability, scale-up, shelf life and environmental adaptability. Sixteen categories of the national industry classification locate today's supply, and five sets of procurement questions can be written into a contract.
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