Tax data: Guangdong's robotics revenue tops 140.4 billion yuan in 2025

Guangdong's tax authority laid out invoice data for the whole robotics chain. Related product sales revenue topped 140.4 billion yuan in 2025, with average annual growth of 8.4% over three years, and domestic tax revenue grew 12.9 percentage points faster than provincial industrial tax revenue; industrial robot output has led the country for six straight years at nearly 45% of the national total, and the number of robotics firms exceeded 12,400. The chain splits into core components, robot bodies and system integration in an 811 pattern by firm count: nearly 10,000 component makers (78%), over 1,000 body manufacturers (9%) and more than 1,500 integrators (13%), with some firms in servo motors, controllers and sensors reaching international standards. The Pearl River Delta holds 96% of firms, 96.9% of revenue and almost all tax revenue; Shenzhen focuses on motion control and humanoid robots, Guangzhou on full-process integration, Dongguan on body manufacturing and Foshan on smart equipment. Sixteen firms with sales above one billion yuan generated nearly half of revenue, and eight firms paying over one billion yuan in tax contributed more than 70% of tax revenue. Core components account for 84.4% of tax contribution and system integration tax grew 25.1% a year.