Manufacturers by province in China
All 12,951 company records in our index, grouped by province, with city counts and the leading categories in each.
How 12,951 company records are spread across China. Guangdong alone accounts for 3,563 of them; the top four provinces together account for 9,008. The point of the table is not the ranking — it is that a product’s province decides its cost structure, its development speed and which questions are worth asking.
Records by province.
City count is the number of distinct cities that appear in the records for that province. Leading categories are the three most common classifications among those records.
| Province | Records | Cities | Leading categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guangdong | 3,563 | 14 | Electronics, Hardware & Tools, Medical Devices |
| Zhejiang | 2,066 | 12 | Hardware & Tools, Electronics, Sports & Outdoors |
| Shandong | 1,940 | 16 | Hardware & Tools, Industrial Machinery, Other |
| Jiangsu | 1,439 | 13 | Hardware & Tools, Medical Devices, Industrial Machinery |
| Fujian | 773 | 7 | Sports & Outdoors, Apparel, Hardware & Tools |
| Hebei | 641 | 9 | Hardware & Tools, Building Materials, Electronics |
| Shanghai | 523 | — | Hardware & Tools, Medical Devices, Electronics |
| Henan | 397 | 6 | Hardware & Tools, Industrial Machinery, Medical Devices |
| Anhui | 326 | 8 | Hardware & Tools, Electronics, Sports & Outdoors |
| Hubei | 195 | 4 | Medical Devices, Hardware & Tools, Sports & Outdoors |
| Tianjin | 168 | — | Hardware & Tools, Medical Devices, Sports & Outdoors |
| Hunan | 164 | 2 | Hardware & Tools, Industrial Machinery, Medical Devices |
| Jiangxi | 124 | 5 | Hardware & Tools, Other, Apparel |
| Beijing | 115 | — | Medical Devices, Electronics, Hardware & Tools |
| Sichuan | 107 | 1 | Medical Devices, Automotive Parts, Sports & Outdoors |
| Liaoning | 86 | 2 | Other, Hardware & Tools, Industrial Machinery |
| Chongqing | 62 | — | Electronics, Automotive Parts, Hardware & Tools |
| Shaanxi | 61 | 1 | Electronics, Other, Food & Beverage |
| Guangxi | 38 | 1 | Apparel, Gifts & Crafts, Other |
| Shanxi | 35 | 1 | Hardware & Tools, Building Materials, Pipes & Fittings |
| Hainan | 11 | — | Hardware & Tools, Packaging & Printing, Medical Devices |
| Yunnan | 10 | — | Gifts & Crafts, Furniture & Home Living, Hardware & Tools |
| Inner Mongolia | 7 | — | Food & Beverage, Other, Chemicals & Coatings |
| Gansu | 6 | — | Electronics, Sports & Outdoors, Building Materials |
| Heilongjiang | 5 | — | Bearings & Transmission, Electronics, Packaging & Printing |
| Hong Kong | 4 | — | Electronics, Hardware & Tools, Medical Devices |
| Xinjiang | 3 | — | Medical Devices, Hardware & Tools, Automotive Parts |
| Ningxia | 2 | — | Hardware & Tools |
| Guizhou | 2 | — | Apparel, Electronics |
| Qinghai | 1 | — | Power & Electrical |
| Taiwan | 1 | — | Hardware & Tools |
Basis: 12,875 of the 12,951 records in our index could be assigned to a province and are counted here; the remaining 76 state no location we can place and are counted in neither column. Province names link to the province page, which breaks the same records down by city.
Three things the counts do not mean.
Not a supplier count
A record is a company that publishes an export profile. It is not a company we have audited, quoted or ordered from — and a province with fewer records is not short of factories, it is short of factories that publish in this form.
Not comparable across years
This is one read of the listings in September 2026. Companies join and leave these platforms continuously, so a difference against any other list is a difference in method as often as a difference in reality.
Not a price signal
Nothing here is a price. Province tells you which cost structure you are buying into — material, labour, tooling and freight all move by cluster — but the number on a quotation comes from a specification, not a map.