According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, China's industrial capacity utilization rate for enterprises above designated size in Q3 2026 was 73.1%, up 0.1 percentage points from Q2 but down 1.5 percentage points from the same period last year. By sector, the capacity utilization rate for mining was 69.5%, for manufacturing it was 73.3%, and for the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, and water it was 72.6%.