Beijing: SiltaNews – News Desk
Beijing’s gross domestic product topped 5.2 trillion yuan ($746.7 billion) in 2025, up 5.4% from 2024, China Daily said Wednesday. The figure made Beijing the second Chinese city, after Shanghai, to surpass an economic scale of 5 trillion yuan.
Among key growth drivers, manufacturing of computers, communications devices and other electronic equipment rose 20.2% year-on-year, while the automotive industry expanded 17.7%. In particular, new energy vehicles, consumer electronics, and integrated circuits have taken the lead in the field. The industrial output of new energy vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, service robots, and wind turbines surged by 1.4 times, 1.2 times, 47.6%, and 21.6% year-on-year, respectively.
The city’s export delivery value of large-scale industrial enterprises reached 211.3 billion yuan last year, marking a 6.4% increase compared with 2024. Automotive manufacturing and specialised equipment manufacturing sectors have played a pivotal role in exports, up 24.6% and 10.8 percent, respectively.
The service sector also expanded, with information transmission, software and information technology services posting an added value of 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025, an 11% increase. The financial industry saw an added value of 866.82 billion yuan during the period, up 8.7%.