National Bureau of Statistics: In July, the industrial added value above designated size grew by 4.5% year-on-year in real terms.

On August 17, the National Bureau of Statistics disclosed that in July, the added value of industries above designated size grew by 4.5% year-on-year in real terms (the growth rate of added value is the real growth rate after excluding price factors). Month-on-month, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 0.11% in July. From January to July, the added value of industries above designated size grew by 5.3% year-on-year. By the three major categories, in July, the added value of the mining industry decreased by 4.2%, the manufacturing industry increased by 5.5%, and the electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply industry rose by 5.0%. By economic type, in July, the added value of state-controlled enterprises grew by 1.6% year-on-year; joint-stock enterprises increased by 5.0%, foreign and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan-invested enterprises grew by 2.8%; private enterprises rose by 3.7%. By industry, in July, among 41 major categories of industries, 25 industries maintained year-on-year growth in added value. Among them, coal mining and washing industry decreased by 10.8%, oil and gas extraction increased by 6.1%, agricultural and sideline food processing industry grew by 3.8%, wine, beverage, and refined tea manufacturing increased by 2.6%, textile industry grew by 2.3%, chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry decreased by 1.2%, non-metallic mineral products industry declined by 3.3%, ferrous metal smelting and rolling industry grew by 0.3%, non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling industry decreased by 2.5%, general equipment manufacturing industry increased by 9.5%, special equipment manufacturing industry grew by 12.6%, automobile manufacturing industry increased by 8.7%, manufacturing of railway, ship, aerospace, and other transport equipment grew by 13.6%, electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing increased by 8.8%, and manufacturing of computers, communications, and other electronic equipment rose by 19.1%. The production and supply of electricity and heat industry grew by 5.3%. By product, in July, among 626 products of industries above designated size, 279 products experienced year-on-year production increases. Among them, steel reached 116.46 million tons, down by 4.1%; cement was 126.71 million tons, down by 11.6%; ten kinds of non-ferrous metals totaled 6.97 million tons, up by 2.5%; ethylene reached 3.48 million tons, up by 0.1%; automobiles totaled 2.529 million units, down by 0.1%, among which new energy vehicles accounted for 1.55 million units, an increase of 29.9%; electrical generation reached 943.9 billion kilowatt-hours, down by 0.1%; crude oil processing volume was 53.11 million tons, down by 15.8%. In July, the product sales rate of industrial enterprises above designated size was 96.9%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.6 percentage points; the value of export delivery by industrial enterprises above designated size reached 1,413.3 billion yuan, a nominal year-on-year increase of 10.4%. This article is excerpted from the official website of the "National Bureau of Statistics," GMTEight editor: Liu Jiayin.