National Bureau of Statistics: Profit in the Oral Equipment and Instruments Manufacturing Industry Grew 70.2% from January to August

Source: National Bureau of Statistics

DentalGoodNews｜On September 28, 2026, the National Bureau of Statistics released industrial enterprise profit data for January to August 2026. Yu Weining, Chief Statistician of the Industrial Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, noted in his interpretation that profits in the Manufacture of Dental Equipment and Instruments industry increased by 70.2% year-on-year. During the same period, profits of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide increased by 15.7% year-on-year, operating revenue increased by 6.6% year-on-year; profits of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 54.7% year-on-year.

On a comparable basis, the profit growth rate of the Manufacture of Dental Equipment and Instruments industry was 54.5 percentage points higher than that of all industrial enterprises above designated size, and 15.5 percentage points higher than that of high-tech manufacturing as a whole. The National Bureau of Statistics classified it as one of the representative industries driving the accelerated development of instrument and meter manufacturing and new-type medical instrument and equipment manufacturing.

According to previous reports by DGN, the industry's profits increased by 26.4% year-on-year from January to May 2026, 7.6 percentage points higher than that of all industrial enterprises above designated size; for the full year of 2025, profits increased by 29.7% year-on-year, 29.1 percentage points higher than that of all industrial enterprises above designated size. Comparing historical data, the growth rate for January to August 2026 accelerated by 43.8 percentage points compared with January to May, and by 40.5 percentage points compared with the full year of 2025.

From the national perspective, within the aforementioned double-digit growth of 15.7% in industrial enterprise profits for January to August, the year-on-year growth rate for the single month of August fell back to 4.2% due to a high base in the same period of the previous year.

From the cost side, the cost per 100 yuan of operating revenue for industrial enterprises above designated size was 85.07 yuan, down 0.41 yuan year-on-year; the operating revenue profit margin was 5.66%, up 0.44 percentage points year-on-year.