China’s solar cell output by major manufacturers up 18.2% in H1 2025

According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China as of June 2025, large-scale industrial enterprises (with annual revenues of RMB 20 million or more) produced 67.39 GW of solar cells in June, representing a year-on-year (YoY) increase of 24.1%. However, this is down from the 70.57 GW reported in May 2025 (see China Solar PV News Snippets).

For the 6-month period from January to June 2025, cumulative output reached 370.19 GW, up 18.2% YoY.

These enterprises generated a total of 4,537.1 TWh of electricity during the same period, which is up 0.8% YoY. Solar and wind power generation reached 266.7 TWh and 553.3 TWh, growing by 20% and 10.6%, respectively.