China exported 84.1GWh of batteries in the first quarter of 2026, of which around one-third was for stationary storage.
The State Council Information Office held a press conference where Wang Jun, Deputy Director of the General Administration of Customs (GAC), and Lv Daliang, GAC Spokesperson and Director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, briefed the media on China’s import and export performance in Q1 2026.
At the briefing, Director Wang Jun said exports of electricity-related products—including power generation, transmission and transformation equipment, and storage systems—all grew by double digits year-on-year.
According to Wang, China’s total goods trade reached RMB11.84 trillion (US$1.7 trillion) in Q1, up 15% year-on-year, with exports at RMB6.85 trillion and imports at RMB4.99 trillion. Mechanical and electrical product exports rose 18.3% to RMB4.34 trillion, accounting for 63.4% of total exports—up 3.5% from a year earlier. Among green products, exports of electric vehicles jumped 77.5%, lithium batteries 50.4%, and wind turbines and components 45.2%.
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Lv Daliang added that China’s combined power and stationary storage battery exports reached 84.1GWh in Q1, up 36.7% year-on-year. In March alone, China’s combined power and storage battery exports hit 36.1GWh, up 51.0% month-on-month and 57.1% year-on-year.
For storage batteries specifically, Q1 exports totaled 27.3GWh—32.4% of all battery exports—up 15.0% year-on-year. In March, storage battery exports stood at 13.8GWh, making up 38.3% of total battery exports (up 8.9% from February), a 96.9% month-on-month and 52.4% year-on-year increase.
At the company level, several outperformed the average Q1 growth rate, including Gotion High-tech, EVE Energy, Chuneng New Energy, Svolt Energy, China Automotive New Energy, and REPT Battero. Among them, Chuneng, China Automotive and REPT doubled their exports year-on-year, with China Automotive surging 723.2%. Farasis Energy, by contrast, saw exports drop 53.9% year-on-year.
In March, Gotion High-tech, CALB, Chuneng, EVE Energy, Svolt Energy, China Automotive, and REPT all beat the average growth rate. Gotion, Chuneng, EVE, China Automotive, and REPT each posted over 100% year-on-year growth, with China Automotive skyrocketing 4,593.5%. Farasis Energy fell 61.1% year-on-year.
