Chinese Motorcycles Market is steady. In 2025 sales reached the 12.6 million (+0.4%), mainly driven by EVs manufacturers recovery, with Yadea and Niu Tech on top of the list.
Economic Outlook
China concluded 2025 with economic growth meeting its official target, marking a steady end to the 14th Five‑Year Plan period. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on January 19, 2026, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.0 percent year‑on‑year in 2025, despite persistent domestic demand weakness and external uncertainty.
For foreign investors, however, the significance of the 2025 data lies less in the headline growth figure and more in the composition of growth, as well as the policy signals it sends as China transitions into the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030). While overall performance suggests macro stability, underlying sectoral trends indicate that the economy is continuing to rebalance toward industrial upgrading, services, and external markets.
Motorcycle Market Data and Trend
The increased Chinese pro capita income increase signed the decline of domestic 2-wheeler market, with cars becoming the favourite individual mobility device and metropolitan areas banning the 2W use in the centers, aiming to reduce accidents and expand public transportation usage.
Meanwhile, the new middle class is looking at 2W as leisure product and while the total domestic market is declining, the «premium» (over 250cc) segment is fast growing thanks to import and new premium domestic OEMs, like Voge, CF Moto, Kove, Benelli, QJ Motor and many others.
The domestic electric market is already the biggest in the world (near 80% of the total) but is now changing towards technologic solutions, high specs and higher power model, thanks to new battery generation.
While the market is growing in terms of value, considering the registrations figures, it is declining, having lost near 3 million sales from 2022 to 2025.
Indeed, in 2025 sales were stable with 12.6 million sales (+0.4%), mainly driven by EVs manufacturers recovery.
Following the previous two years double-digit decline, the electric vehicles segment gained 13.4%, thanks to the robust growth of L3 segment (+35.1%) while the L1 segment, still represent near 80% of the EVs market, increased a more modest 8.2%.