Chinese Construction Equipment Expands Global Reach with Steady Export Growth

From January to July 2025, China’s construction machinery exports have maintained solid growth momentum. Both complete machines and spare parts exports have achieved double-digit increases, showing the strong resilience and global competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing.

  1. Strong Export Growth Across All Product Categories

According to the latest customs data, China exported USD 24.09 billion worth of construction machinery (complete units), up 9.7% year-on-year, accounting for 71.9% of total exports.
Meanwhile, spare parts exports reached USD 9.39 billion, rising 13.8%, and taking up 28.1% of total export value.

Notably, categories such as spare parts, crawler cranes, tower cranes, elevators, escalators, and concrete machinery have shown particularly strong performance in overseas markets.

  1. Global Market Expansion

Exports to Africa, Asia, Oceania, and South America all achieved double-digit growth.

  • Africa: USD 4.8 billion, up 56.5%
  • Asia: USD 14.28 billion, up 15.7%
  • Oceania: up 13.6%
  • South America: up 10.8%

In contrast, exports to Europe and North America declined slightly by 9.47% and 6.13%, respectively.
Export share by region:Asia 42.6% | Europe 20.8% | Africa 14.3% | South America 10.8% | North America 7.9% | Oceania 3.6%

  1. Growth in Emerging Markets

Despite slight decreases in exports to Russia and the United States, strong growth has been recorded in countries such as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, India, UAE, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Turkey, and Guinea.This reflects China’s expanding influence and competitiveness in global construction and infrastructure development.