The Value- added of Industry Increased by 15.9% in August

During January- August, state-owned industrial enterprises and non-state-owned industrial enterprises whose annual sales income is over 5 million yuan completed an added value of 3391.1 billion yuan, up by 17.1% over the same period of the previous year. Wherein, an added value of 454.5 billion yuan was completed in August, up by 15.9% over the same period of the previous year and the growth rate was 0.4 % higher than that of the previous month and 1.2% lower over the same month of the previous year.

The detailed operating condition is as follows:

1. Most products kept a fast growth momentum, but the growth rate of some products fell back.

The growth rate of crude steel, steel products and primary energy production was further recovered. In August, the crude steel and steel products grew by 21.8% and 22.9% respectively over the same period of the previous year, and the growth rate was up by 1.5 % and 4.4 % over that in June; the raw coal, crude petroleum and natural gas grew by 17.2%, 5.7% and 22.6% respectively over the same period of the previous year and the growth rate was 3.2%, 1.3% and 6.1 % higher than that in July.

Major products of the high-tech industry kept the high-speed growth. In August, the output of semiconductor integrated circuits, semiconductor discrete devices, microcomputers, printers, displays and facsimile machines grew by 32.3%-63% over the same month of the previous year.

The power generation growth was somewhat recovered. In August, the large power generation enterprises above the designated scale generated power of 192.1 billion kilowatt hour, up by 12.1% over the same period of the previous year, and the growth rate was up by 0.4% over that in July. As compared with that in July, the power output was up by 2.2 billion kilowatt hours.

The growth rate of cement and aluminum oxide production kept on dropping. In August, the output of cement and aluminum oxide was up by 9.4% and 9.1% over the same period of the previous year, but the growth rate was down by 1.6% and 1.7% over that in July.

The auto production growth was further slowed down. In August, 386,000 automobiles were produced throughout the country, up by 3.6% over the same period of the previous year, but the growth rate was down by 1.8% over that in July, wherein the output of saloon cars was 170,000, up by 1.5% over the same period of the previous year.

2. The value of shipment for product export kept on growing fast. In August, the industrial enterprises realized a value of shipment for export of 315.1 billion yuan, up by 32.1% over the same period of the previous year, and the growth rate was up by 3.6% over the same month of the previous year.

3. The production and sales were well connected. In August, the sales rate of industrial products was 98.2%, down by 0.5% over that in July.