Top 20 Chinese Car Manufacturers by Global Output (2025)
China produced 34.5 million vehicles in 2025, a new record, and roughly a third of that came from just two companies. Here’s how the country’s biggest manufacturers actually stack up against each other, measured by global output across every brand each one owns, not just the badge that gets the headlines.
Figures are global, full-year 2025, group-level totals across every brand each manufacturer owns. Where a precise figure wasn’t published, a reasonable estimate is shown and marked “approx.” HIMA is a Huawei-led alliance spanning several manufacturers’ brands (Seres’s Aito, Chery’s Luxeed, BAIC’s Stelato, JAC’s Maextro), not a single company, included here for scale context.
BYD and SAIC lead a genuine two-horse race at the top
BYD and SAIC Motor are separated by less than 100,000 units out of well over 4.5 million each, comfortably clear of everyone else in China. BYD’s position is particularly notable given it’s achieved purely through EVs and hybrids, with no combustion-only models at all, while SAIC’s total leans on a broader portfolio spanning MG, Roewe, Maxus, IM Motors and Wuling.
The “new forces” are closing the gap fast
Leapmotor’s growth stands out sharply here, up 119% year-on-year to around 600,000 units, enough to leapfrog the once-dominant trio of NIO, XPeng and Li Auto combined in terms of momentum, if not yet outright volume. XPeng’s 126% growth to 430,000 units tells a similar story. Meanwhile Xiaomi, in its very first full year of car production, already outsold NIO, a genuinely remarkable debut for a company that only started building cars in 2024.
Source: China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), company financial disclosures, CarNewsChina, Gasgoo and MarkLines. See our full brand directory for individual coverage of every manufacturer above.
