Current Status of Prefabricated Assembled Houses
The prefabricated assembled housing industry is currently in a stage of rapid development, with a continuously expanding market size and significant advantages in technical characteristics. However, there are still various issues in its application and promotion, including those related to观念 (concepts), technology and costs, and enterprise products.
Market Size and Growth
In 2024, the market size of China's prefabricated assembled housing industry reached 128.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.3%, maintaining strong growth despite macroeconomic fluctuations and intensified market competition. In the first half of 2026, China's total exports of prefabricated buildings amounted to 2.79 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 45%. The export value of movable houses from Shenzhen ports reached 2.45 billion yuan, with products covering more than 160 countries and regions worldwide, indicating a trend of dual expansion in both domestic and international markets.
Industry Characteristics and Advantages
Standardization and Industrialization: Building components are uniformly produced in factories, ensuring consistent quality and construction precision, significantly shortening the construction cycle.
Environmental Protection: Reduces construction waste and noise pollution, controls material waste, and uses renewable or recycled materials, meeting sustainable development requirements.
Flexibility and Adaptability: Meets diverse functional needs through modular design, suitable for residential, commercial, and public facilities, and facilitates post-construction maintenance and renovation.
Safety: Components undergo strict quality inspections, ensuring structural strength and durability, with excellent performance in earthquake resistance and fire prevention.
Application Status
Domestic: Mainly focused on standardized projects such as public rental housing and talent apartments, with many pilot projects in the commercial housing sector but cautious large-scale applications. Only leading enterprises like Vanke have carried out batch practices.
International: Chinese exported prefabricated houses are characterized by fine decoration and comfort. For example, a prefabricated cottage purchased by an American couple remained highly satisfactory after extreme weather, demonstrating their adaptability and practicality.
Existing Issues
Conceptual Issues: The industry generally has a tendency to prioritize the main structure over decoration and construction over maintenance, affecting full lifecycle management.
Technology and Cost Issues: Insufficient experience in applying new technologies makes quality control difficult. The reduction in maintenance and management costs and economies of scale have not yet been realized, and cost advantages have not been fully unleashed.
Enterprise and Product Issues: Enterprises with complete technical systems and overall solutions are scarce. Research on components is limited to single products, lacking research on system interfaces, which restricts industry development.
