Value-added of Industry Grew up in February

The value-added of the industrial enterprises that above designated size (all state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises with an annual sales income over 5 million yuan) increased 15.4 percent from January to February, year-on-year. The sales ratio of industrial products was 97.50 percent, rose by 0.7 percentage points over the same month of last year. Industrial enterprises achieved a total export delivery value of 1082.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 14.8 percent.

In terms of main sectors, the growth rate of manufacture of textile, raw chemical materials and chemical products, non-metallic mineral products, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals expanded respectively 11.6, 13.3, 19.7 and 14.0 percent; that of manufacture of general purpose machinery, transportation equipment manufacturing industry, electromechanical equipment manufacturing climbed 21.9, 18.8 and 20.3 percent correspondingly; that of manufacture of communication equipment, computers and other electric equipment increased 14.5 percent; and that of production and supply of electric power and heat power rose by 11.8 percent.

In terms of major industrial products, the output of coal, crude oil and electricity respectively reached 360 million tons, 30.78 million tons and 516.9 billion kilowatt-hours, increased 13.4, 1.2 and 11.3 percent respectively. The output of pig iron, crude steel and rolled steel stood at 75.63, 79.45 and 89.05 million tons, rose by 7.3, 6.4 and 12.3 percent respectively; that of cement was 140 million tons, down by 2.8 percent; that of automobiles was 152 thousand sets, up by 12.5 percent, of which, 82 thousand sets of saloon cars with a growth of 10.0 percent over the same month of the previous year.