A worker is building hull components to meet growing orders at a shipyard in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, on December 15, 2025. In the first three quarters, China's shipbuilding output reached 38.53 million deadweight tons, up 6 percent year-on-year. China's shipbuilding output accounted for 53.8 percent of the global total, new orders for 67.3 percent, and order backlog for 65.2 percent in deadweight tons - keeping its top spot worldwide, per industry data. Photo: VCG