The General Administration of Market Regulation held a press conference today to introduce the development results of China's inspection and testing service industry during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period. By the end of 2025, China had 54,340 certified inspection and testing institutions of various types, with 1,586,400 employees, a laboratory area of 125 million square meters, and issued a total of 571 million inspection reports to the public. Achieved operating revenue of 530.308 billion yuan. Looking back on the five years of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, the inspection and testing industry has undergone three historic changes: a historic shift in the way it grows. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the entire inspection and testing industry's revenue exceeded 530 billion yuan, an increase of 47.89% over the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period. The revenue growth rate was 4.56 times the growth rate of the number of institutions during the same period, reversing the extensive growth pattern of revenue growth over the past few years, mainly driven by volume expansion. There has been a historic shift in the industry structure. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the number of institutions and revenue in emerging fields such as electronics, software, information technology, and electricity all reached an average annual growth rate of more than 13%; the growth momentum of the industry accelerated shift from traditional fields to emerging fields and to fields with high added value, driving the industry structure from “quantitative change” to “qualitative change”. There has been a historic shift in development momentum. In 2025, inspection and testing institutions participated in 43,646 scientific research projects and had 211,1232 effective patents, including 94,421 effective invention patents. Compared with the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the number of active patents increased by 142.95%. In 2025, 6,321 institutions were certified as high-tech enterprises, accounting for 14 times the average share of all industries in the country; 1,791 institutions were certified as “specialized, special and new”, an increase of 19.40% over the previous year, 11 times the average share of all industries in the country. The characteristics of the high-tech inspection and testing service industry are more distinct, and the endogenous function of industry development has been further enhanced.

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