China’s Guangdong province exports record US$140 billion of tech, high-value goods

Exports of chip-manufacturing equipment, electric vehicles (EVs) and other high-value goods from China’s southern Guangdong province rose to a record high last year of over 1 trillion yuan (US$140 billion), highlighting the country’s progress in its quest for technological self-sufficiency in an ongoing tech war with the US.

The country’s leading manufacturing hub exported semiconductor equipment worth more than 800 billion yuan in 2025, an increase of nearly 20 per cent from a year earlier, said Zhang Jinsong, head of Guangdong’s Department of Commerce, at an event on Monday.

Accelerating technological self-reliance is one of the province’s main priorities this year.

Meanwhile, exports of EVs, lithium batteries and solar products from Guangdong also hit an all-time high, rising more than 30 per cent year on year to over 200 billion yuan.

Guangdong, home to tech and EV giants such as Huawei Technologies, Tencent Holdings, BYD and Xpeng, “has enhanced the security, stability and reliability of the industrial chain”, said Zeng Jinze, head of the province’s Department of Industry and Information Technology, at the same event.

He said Huawei’s Ascend 910C had become “the mainstream computing chip product in China”.