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
China General-Purpose Servo Market White Paper (2026) Released: Market at RMB 22.96 Billion, Still 7.1% Below the 2021 Peak
39 pages, 28 charts. China's general-purpose servo market grew 8.0% in 2025; 77.8% of the increment came from three industries and 73.6% went to a single vendor. All five listed companies sampled saw unit shipments grow faster than revenue, with average unit prices down 3.9% to 18.3% year on year.
- RMB 22.96 bn
- 2025 market size
- +8.0%
- Year-on-year growth
- 39.4%
- Domestic share in machine tools
Latest
China Low-Voltage Switchgear Market White Paper (2026): RMB 109.9 Bn at Home, RMB 181.4 Bn Exported
2026 China High-Temperature Superconductor Industry: Market Size & Competitive Landscape
2026 China Electric Motor Industry: Market Size & Competitive Landscape
2026 China Surface Treatment Industry: Market Size & Competitive Landscape
2026 China Sewing Machinery Industry: Market Size & Competitive Landscape
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 Tax-Sharing Reform and Chinese Manufacturing: The Thirty-Year Industrial Tail of a Fiscal Overhaul
The 1994 tax-sharing reform was designed to rescue central finances - and ended up shaping the geography of Chinese manufacturing for three decades. VAT sharing tied local governments to factories; land-based finance bred 2,500-plus development zones and an inter-county investment tournament; fiscal transfers underwrote industry's move inland. This study traces the reform's design, its transmission channels, its evolution, and the rewrite now under way.
Zhu Rongji and Chinese Manufacturing: Institutional Foundations and Industrial Legacy, 1987-2003
Zhu Rongji died on August 12, 2026, at 98. This 41-chapter study traces his sixteen years of institution-building for Chinese manufacturing: Santana localization and Pudong; the 1994 tax-sharing and exchange-rate reforms; the SOE turnaround, spindle cutting, the 1998 ministerial restructuring, and WTO accession - mapped onto the ground beneath China's 4.8 million factories today. With a chronology, notes on statistics, and verified quotations.
One Sentence, One Prospect List: Six Manufacturing-Sales Workflows Rewritten by MCP and Agent Skills
The Tianxia Gongchang open platform turned five capabilities over 4.8 million factories into tools an AI assistant can call directly, and released an official Agent Skill. Six workflows show what changes in manufacturing sales: a Ningbo territory motion narrowed from 430 to 34, a Jiangsu ICP cut from 39,747 to 1,707 and exported by district slices, pre-show verification, exporter filtering, legacy lead enrichment, and assistant setup. Every figure was retrieved on August 4, 2026.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Post-Launch Review: From 'Shock Moment' to 'Efficiency as the Norm', Chinese LLMs Enter Their Second Phase
On July 31, 2026, DeepSeek quietly shipped the official V4 Flash in its API changelog: a model with 13 billion active parameters that overtook the preview of its own 1.6-trillion-parameter flagship on agentic benchmarks. Markets barely moved, yet the price war has flipped, and this time it was OpenAI that cut first. This report reviews the launch, the global market reaction, and the deeper shifts in the US-China AI landscape, and asks what plunging inference costs mean for Chinese manufacturing.
Plugging 4.8 Million Factories Into AI: What an Open Platform and MCP Mean for the Future of Manufacturing
The Tianxia Gongchang open platform exposes the data foundation of 4.8 million Chinese factories to every application and AI assistant through five capabilities and two access methods, with an MCP service and an official Agent Skill rolling out. This essay examines how that changes B2B sales workflows, sourcing costs, the developer toolbox, and how factories get discovered — and which expectations deserve restraint.
The Science of Site Selection: When 3.45 Million Factory Coordinates Meet AI
A 30-chapter deep dive: two centuries of location theory, 3.45 million real factory-site coordinates, 1,572 algorithm-discovered industrial clusters, measurable supplier radii, and the five maps that turn factory site selection from craft into science.
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The clusters and companies named in our reports can be found as individual factories on Tianxia Gongchang, searchable by product, region and size.
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