Value-added of Industry Rose 17.9 Percent in May

The value-added of the industrial enterprises that above designated size (all state-owned enterprises and non-state enterprises with an annual sates income over 5 million yuan ) in May achieved 706 billion yuan, an increase of 17.9 percent, year-on-year. The sales ratio of industrial products was 97.75 percent, grew 0.22 percentage points over the same month a year ago. The export delivery value of industrial products reached 475.5 billion yuan, an increase of 23.0 percent.

Performances in different industries: the growth rate of textile industry, raw chemical materials industry and chemical products industry, non-metal mineral products industry, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals industry all expanded, respectively rose15.8, 21.8, 20.2, 18.9 percent, year-on-year. And the growth rate of general purpose machinery manufacturing industry, transportation equipment manufacturing industry, electrical machinery & equipment manufacturing industry, telecommunication, computer & other electric equipment manufacturing industry, electric power production & supply industry correspondingly increased 21.5, 27.7, 13.1, 22.9 and 11.1 percent.

In terms of main products, the production of coal, crude oil and generate electricity capacity respectively reached 173 million ton 15.72 million ton and 217.5 billion kilowatt-hour, increased 12.9, 2.5 and 12.5 percent over the same month a year ago; the production of iron, crude steel and rolled steel was 35.33, 35.93 and 40.23 million ton, correspondingly rose 23.0, 19.6 and 27.1 percent; the production of cement reached 109 million ton, rose 17.1 percent.The production of vehicles was 620,000, up by 28.4 percent, of which, 330,000 of cars and increased 51.7 percent over the same month of the previous year.

From January to May, the accumulated value-added of industrial enterprises above designated size amounted to 3174.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.0 percent.