China Battery Production: The 2024-2025 Time Series

Battery Market Intelligence · MIIT data · Last reviewed 2026-09-16

Direct answer: China's lithium-ion battery production reached 1,170 GWh in 2024 — up 24% year-on-year, split between 826 GWh of power batteries and 260 GWh of storage-grade cells. For 2025, output is on track to pass 1,500 GWh (+28%), with storage accelerating toward 550 GWh — roughly doubling in a year.

The production time series (MIIT)

Period	Total	Power batteries	Storage-grade
2024	1,170 GWh (+24% YoY)	826 GWh	260 GWh
2025 (projected)	>1,500 GWh (+28%)	—	~550 GWh

Source: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), industry reporting.

Our calculation

The storage surge: 260 GWh (2024) to ~550 GWh (2025) is roughly +112% in one year — storage is now the fastest layer of Chinese production, compounding far faster than the ~24–28% overall growth. Power batteries were about 71% of 2024 output (826 ÷ 1,170); the storage share is rising quickly.

What the numbers mean

The production series mirrors the market structure: power batteries carry the volume, but storage carries the growth — the same two-engine shape as the demand forecast. Output growing at ~25% per year means roughly a decade's tripling every five years of the base, which is why capacity keeps racing demand (see China's lithium industry).

The Author's Take

My read: China's production series is best read as two growth rates, not one total — power batteries compounding at ~25%, storage at over 100% — and the storage rate is the number that will reshape the industry's structure this decade.

Why: The total masks the shift. Storage doubling annually changes the mix within a few years — exactly the structural change that capacity plans, price forecasts and export structures must be built around, not just observed.

My editorial view, not investment or purchasing advice.

Data provenance

Method	Primary statistics (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) for actuals; industry reporting for 2025 projections; growth rates derived from the published series.
Confidence	High for 2024 actuals; Medium for 2025 projections (subject to revision).

Sources

MIIT statistics — 2024 production (1,170 GWh, +24%; 826 GWh power, 260 GWh storage).
Industry reporting — 2025 projections (>1,500 GWh, +28%; storage toward 550 GWh).

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Evidence framework: every figure carries its source and date; where sources conflict, estimates are shown as ranges, not single values. See methodology.