Source: Laserfair.com  12^th Dec 2025

At the end of 2025, China’s laser industry is ushering in its annual grand finale!

The topping-out milestones of laser headquarters base projects have been successively staged in Shenzhen, Wuhan, Dongguan and other cities—three new landmarks of the laser industry, namely JPT Greater Bay Area Laser Valley Building, Optics Valley Tech Headquarters base and Lixing Laser Headquarters, have topped out their main structures within one month, entering the countdown to full-scale operation.

These laser headquarters projects involve substantial total investment and boast an impressive projected annual output value. The topping-out of these projects also sounds the starting gun for large-scale production and capacity release during 2026-2027.

Spanning from Shenzhen to Wuhan and then to Dongguan, these three major laser headquarters bases will build a full industrial chain ecosystem covering R&D, manufacturing and application. This will further consolidate the core links of the industrial chain, strengthen the localization substitution capability, and inject strong optical power into strategic emerging industries such as new energy and semiconductors.

1. JPT Greater Bay Area Laser Valley Building

The 119.55-meter-tall "Beacon of Laser Industry" Stands Tall in Shenzhen

On December 10, 2025, in the core area of Shenzhen’s Luhu Lake, a 119.55-meter-tall industrial landmark rose majestically—the JPT Greater Bay Area Laser Valley Building completed the topping-out of its main structure on this day, presenting a substantial gift for the company’s upcoming 20th anniversary celebration.

At the topping-out ceremony, Huang Zhijia, Chairman of JPT, along with the management team, representatives from partner organizations including design, survey, construction and supervision firms, as well as all construction personnel, witnessed this glorious moment together.

Scene of the Topping-out Ceremony

This new headquarters building of JPT, meticulously designed by the team led by Academician Meng Jianmin, broke ground in June 2023 and underwent 30 months of meticulous construction. It is planned to serve as a strategic hub integrating global management, cutting-edge R&D, high-end intelligent manufacturing and ecological co-creation.

Standing 119.55 meters tall, the Greater Bay Area Laser Valley Building will become a new industrial landmark on Shenzhen’s central axis. The topping-out of the building is not only a tribute to JPT’s two-decade pursuit of laser technology, but also a starting point for its systematic development into the future.

Nestled in the core area of Lu Hu Industrial New City, the building enables convenient access to Futian CBD within 20 minutes, facilitating agile connection to global resources. The rich network of ecological partners in the surrounding area provides fertile ground for the company to deepen collaborative innovation in key fields such as new energy and semiconductors.

At the topping-out ceremony, JPT Chairman Huang Zhijia clarified the company’s future direction: “We will continue to advance our ‘Light + AI’ strategy, keep deepening our presence in sectors including new energy, semiconductors, optical communications and consumer electronics, and step onto the fast track of growth.”

Undoubtedly, JPT’s new headquarters will serve as the “brain center” and “super laboratory” for executing this strategy. It is expected that upon the full commissioning of JPT Greater Bay Area Laser Valley Building in 2027, it will greatly accelerate cross-field technological integration and core product incubation, emerging as a hub of innovation for driving industrial progress.

2. GZTECH Headquarters Base

Optics Valley's New Engine Drives Global Layout

On December 3, 2025, in Wuhan East Lake Comprehensive Bonded Zone, GZTECH celebrated the topping-out of the main building of its global headquarters and advanced light source R&D and production base project. This marks that the national-level "Little Giant" enterprise has fully entered a fast track of large-scale development.

As an emerging star in the industry rooted in China's Optics Valley, GZTECH's product portfolio covers industrial-grade, consumer-grade and device-grade laser categories. The headquarters base, which was capped off this time, serves as the core carrier for its R&D and production layout. It is expected that upon commissioning in the second half of 2026, the base will form a robust scale with an annual production and sales volume of 80,000–100,000 laser units.

Topping-out of GZTECH Headquarters base

It is reported that the base was officially grounded on June 10, 2025, with a total construction area of 40,000 square meters. It is designed to integrate two major technology systems—fiber laser and solid-state laser—and build a complete closed loop from technology R&D and pilot-scale verification to mass production, laying a solid foundation for further expanding product categories and scales in the future.

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Huang Zhihua, Chairman of the company, announced that a national key laboratory would be built here, focusing on breaking through chokepoint technologies such as ultrafast lasers and high-power fiber lasers. His goal is clear and ambitious: relying on the cluster advantages of Optics Valley, to build GZTECH into a top 3 global laser supplier.

 Scene of the Topping-out Ceremony of GZTECH Headquarters base

Located in the core area of high-tech manufacturing in Wuhan, GZTECH Headquarters base enables integrated and highly efficient collaboration of R&D, manufacturing and supply chain. Meanwhile, the foreign trade policy dividends of Wuhan East Lake Comprehensive Bonded Zone will significantly enhance the company’s capability to support services for the global market, making it an important fulcrum for the internationalization strategy.

A review of the company's development history shows that since settling here, with support from entities such as Optics Valley Industrial Investment, GZTECH has achieved an average annual growth rate of over 50%, and its products have successfully entered the European and Southeast Asian markets.

Analysts point out that the construction of this headquarters is not only an inevitable choice for the enterprise’s growth, but also a key move for Optics Valley to build a world-class laser industry cluster and enhance its global industrial discourse power.

3. Glorystar Laser Headquarters base

Building a New Landmark for Wan Yi Intelligent Manufacturing

At 09:45 on November 13, 2025, in Dongcheng Sub-district, Dongguan, with the last batch of concrete poured in place, the Glorystar Laser Headquarters and Capacity Expansion Project achieved the topping-out of its first main building.

This marks that the construction of this high-quality laser project has entered the countdown to commissioning. Upon completion and operation, it will inject strong impetus into the upgrading of intelligent manufacturing capacity in Dongcheng and even the whole city of Dongguan.

According to reports, the Glorystar Laser Headquarters Project has a total investment of 358 million yuan, covering an area of approximately 29.85 mu, with a planned total construction area of nearly 75,000 square meters. The project is committed to building a high-end intelligent laser manufacturing base that integrates functions such as R&D center, high-standard workshops and intelligent warehouses, featuring intelligence, smartness and green development.

Topping-out of the First Main Building of Glorystar Laser Headquarters

The topping-out of the first main building has laid a solid foundation for the project to be fully completed and put into operation by the end of 2026. After operation, the project will not only become a manufacturing highland for advanced laser cutting complete machines, but also commit itself to the incubation and delivery of laser application solutions, with the annual output value expected to exceed 1 billion yuan.

As an integrated platform of "headquarters + intelligent manufacturing + services", the project will build a full-chain innovation ecosystem from R&D to mass production, attract the agglomeration of upstream and downstream enterprises, and improve the industrial chain.

For Dongcheng Sub-district and even Dongguan as a whole, the significance of the Glorystar Laser project goes far beyond the landing of a single factory. It is regarded as a powerful fulcrum to drive economic growth, activate employment potential and promote industrial upgrading.

Rendering of the Glorystar Laser Project

Upon completion, the project is expected to act like a magnet, attracting the agglomeration of upstream and downstream enterprises engaged in core components of laser equipment, system integration and high-end applications. This will further improve the regional laser industrial chain, enhance overall collaborative efficiency, and inject a potent "laser catalyst" into the transformation and upgrading of Dongguan's traditional manufacturing industry.

Topping-out of Three Major Headquarters Projects:

Headquarters Economy Empowers the High-quality Leap of the Laser Industry

In one month, three headquarters projects achieved topping-out collectively.

This is not merely a construction milestone, but a collective charge for China’s laser industry to march toward systematic and large-scale development after years of accumulation. It also signifies that a new phase of industrial development, centered on headquarters economy, has quietly arrived for China’s laser industry.

From the perspective of corporate strategy, each of these three headquarters projects has its own focus and precise positioning: JPT focuses on its "Light + AI" strategy to build an innovation hub; GZTECH targets an annual production and sales volume of 100,000 units, aiming for the global market; and Glorystar Laser is building an integrated intelligent manufacturing platform with a billion-yuan output value.

From the perspective of regional coordination, the three major industrial hubs in Shenzhen, Wuhan and Dongguan echo each other from afar, enhancing the synergistic effect of the laser industry clusters in South China and Central China, and injecting sustained growth momentum into the regional economy.

From the perspective of industrial development, after commissioning, the projects will further raise the localization level of core laser equipment, facilitate cost reduction and efficiency improvement for downstream industries such as new energy, semiconductors and intelligent driving, and provide crucial support for the transformation from Made in China to Intelligent Made in China.

In the future, as laser technology is further applied in more high-end fields, the three headquarters bases will continue to unleash innovation and production capacity dividends, accelerate cross-field technology integration, and become the core engine driving China’s laser industry to advance toward high-end, intelligent and green development.