China has been the largest country for manufacturing industries for 11 consecutive years, contributing nearly 30 percent of the world's manufacturing industries, said CCID in late March in its latest white book on high quality development of manufacturing in 2021, evaluating the manufacturing development level of provincial-level areas in China based on six main indicators including scale, innovation and quality.

As per the white book, the general manufacturing development level of China improved from a score of 36.67 in 2015 to 39.38 in 2019 in China, and saw a significant rise in innovation, energy savings and firm capability.

Let's take a look at the top 10 provincial level regions of China by manufacturing development level.

No 1 Guangdong  Score: 81.23

No 2 Jiangsu         Score: 68.81

No 3 Zhejiang      Score: 61.80

No 4 Beijing          Score: 53.22

No 5 Shandong     Score: 53.17

No 6 Shanghai      Score: 49.95

No 7 Fujian           Score: 46.52

No 8 Hubei           Score: 45.03

No 9 Hunan          Score: 44.93

No 10 Anhui         Score: 44.20