The great river flows, breaking through the midstream waters.
On December 10th, at a Changan Automobile smart factory, as an Avatr 12 rolled off the inspection line, a large screen displayed the number “30,000,000”.
This is not just a refresh of data, but a microcosm of the manufacturing sector’s “hardcore breakthrough” in 2025. Looking back on the year about to pass, facing the high winds and rough seas of global supply chain restructuring, the economy did not drift with the current, nor did it “hit the brakes.” Instead, it decisively “stepped on the accelerator” amidst the transformative “breaking” and “building.” Maintaining strategic resolve and leading the entire city to closely focus on the overall goal of building a modern metropolis, a new course was charted through the rapids.
In the first three quarters, the GDP grew by 5.3% year-on-year. Behind this growth rate lies a dramatic structural transformation—the proportion of high-tech manufacturing increased significantly, with new driving forces rapidly replacing old ones. This substantial report card is written in busy workshops and on speeding freight trains, witnessing a city’s resilience in building momentum for a leap forward amidst adversity and its strength in forging ahead through change.
From “Product Export” to “Standard Export,” Advancing into the Deep Waters of Technology
Tall buildings rise from the ground. The real economy is the ballast for development, and the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing is the most hardcore support within that ballast.
On December 10th, good news arrived from North America—a factory operated by a technology company officially commenced production in Oklahoma, USA. This is not just an expansion of physical space, but a technological spillover of high-end manufacturing capabilities. Leveraging over two decades of deep expertise in die-casting technology cultivated domestically, this enterprise successfully entered the world’s most cutting-edge industrial chain tracks for North American leading new energy vehicle manufacturers, such as autonomous driving and humanoid robots.
“We are not just going to build a factory; we are going to export standards,” an enterprise representative explained. This overseas factory fully replicates the experience of its domestic smart manufacturing plant. Relying on core technologies like semi-solid die-casting, it has achieved a leap from “product export” to “manufacturing export.”
This also means that at the intersection of new energy and artificial intelligence, manufacturing now possesses the hard power to define high-end standards in global mature markets.
If the export of standards proves the effectiveness of “strengthening the body,” then the iteration of power technology concerns the future of “strengthening the core.”
At a solid-state battery system R&D and industrialization base located in the Longsheng New City of Liangjiang New Area, “assembly + testing” production lines are operating intensively. In 2025, the global power battery industry reached a critical point of technological maturity. Seizing the opportunity precisely, major players made significant investments. Coupled with the traction from millions of application scenarios provided by local整车 manufacturers, the region has now established a systematic competitive advantage.
From单纯的生产制造 to building a vertical ecosystem of “R&D—materials—manufacturing—application,” the city, committed to building itself into a capital for intelligent connected new energy vehicles, has set its sights on the even loftier goal of becoming the “Solid-State Battery Capital of China.”
In fact, the breakthrough of the automotive industry cluster is just the tip of the iceberg. It reflects the overall reshaping of the industrial logic. In 2025, manufacturing is no longer satisfied with chasing output scale but is committed to advancing into the “deep waters” of core industrial chain technology. This mastery of “hardcore technology” is extending from the automotive industry to all aspects of “national strategic equipment”—
In Jiulongpo, an enterprise攻克了超大规格铝合金锻环技术, allowing domestically produced large aircraft to be clad in “locally made”坚硬铠甲. In the new track of the low-altitude economy,航空发动机研发占据国内工业级无人机市场的半壁江山.
Breakthroughs at individual points have driven爆发 across the board. In the first three quarters of 2025, the electronics and information industry换道超车, with integrated circuit output reaching 8.823 billion units, a year-on-year increase of 61.6%; the motorcycle industry’s added value grew by 21.2% year-on-year; the materials industry’s added value increased by 6.8% year-on-year; and liquid crystal display panel output rose by 28.0% year-on-year. From an “Automotive City” to a “Dual Core of Chips and Vehicles
