In the January-February period this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on March 13.
In January-February this year, of the 41 industrial sectors in China, 39 witnessed year-on-year increases in value-added industrial output. In the given period, respective year-on-year increases of 6.8 percent, 11.0 percent, 15.5 percent, 8.0 percent and 11.39 percent were recorded in value-added industrial outputs in the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector, the general purpose machinery sector, the automotive sector, the railway, shipping, aerospace and other transportation equipment manufacturing sector, and the electrical equipment and machinery sector.
Meanwhile, in the first two months this year, several product segments indicated year-on-year increases in output, with finished steel output amounting to 165.73 million mt, up 4.9 percent, with aggregate output of 10 non-ferrous metals totaling 6.56 million mt, up 6.1 percent, and with automobile output reaching 3.869 million units, up 12.5 percent, all year on year.