In the first three quarters of this year, the value-added of industrial enterprises above designated size (from all the state-owned industrial enterprises, and non state-owned ones with annual sales revenue over 5 million yuan) reached 6222.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 17.2%. The proportion of industrial products sold was 97.84%, down by 0.07 percentage point over the same period of last year. The consignment export value of the industrial enterprises reached 4247.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 23.9%.

Among major industrial branches, the production of textile rose 14.8%, that of the chemical materials and chemical products went up 20.0%, that of non-metallic mineral products industry climbed 22.2%, that of the smelting and pressing of ferrous metals went up 17.7%, that of general equipment manufacturing rose 22.2%, that of transportation equipment manufacturing was up 22.3%, that of electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing rose 16.1%, that of the communications equipment, computer and other electronic equipment manufacturing increased 22.8%, the production and supply of electricity and heat was up 12.4%.

Among major production, the outputs of raw coal, crude oil and electricity generated were 1.48 billion ton, 0.14 billion ton and 2011.1 billion kilowatt-hour respectively, a year-on-year rise of 11.7%, 1.7% and 12.9% respectively; those of iron, crude steel and steel products were 0.3 billion ton, 0.31 billion ton and 0.34 billion ton, a year-on-year rise of 20.8%, 18.4% and 23.7% respectively; that of cement was 0.87 billion ton, up 20.7%; that of automobile was 5590 thousand, up 24.0%, especially, and that of car was 2970 thousand, up 41.5%.

(China Development Gateway October 23, 2006)