BEIJING , March 11, 2013 (Press Release) -
In the first two months of 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up 9.9 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 0.4 percentage points lower than that in December 2012. In February, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size went up by 0.79 percent month-on-month.
Analysis on different types of enterprises showed that, in the first two months, the year-on-year growth of the state-owned enterprises and state holding enterprises increased 5.8 percent, collective enterprises increased 6.5 percent, joint-stock enterprises climbed 11.4 percent, enterprises funded by foreign investors or investors from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan province increased 6.9 percent.
In the first two months, the year-on-year growth of heavy industry increased 10.2 percent, while the light industry was up by 9.1 percent.
Grouped by different sectors, in the first two months, 40 industries within 41 industrial divisions kept year-on-year growth. Of this total, the growth of textile industry was 11.0 percent; the manufacture of raw chemical materials and chemical products, up by 12.4 percent; the manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, up by 11.3 percent; the ferrous metal smelting and pressing, up by 11.4 percent; the manufacture of general machinery, 9.2 percent; the manufacture of automobile industry, 11.2 percent; the manufacture of railways, shipbuilding, aerospace and other transportation equipment, 2.8 percent, the manufacture of electric machinery and equipment, 9.8 percent; the manufacture of communication equipment, computers and other electronic equipment, 13.8 percent; and the production and supply of electricity and heat, 4.7 percent.
In terms of different products, of the total 464 products, the output of 333 products in the first two months showed a year-on-year growth. Of this total, the output of electricity was 757.3 billion kilowatt-hours, up by 3.4 percent; that of pig iron was 158.27 million tons, up by 14.2 percent; that of cement was 237.29 million tons, up by 10.8 percent; that of that of crude oil was 80.65 million tons, up by 3.0 percent; that of 10 kinds of nonferrous metals was 6.22 million tons, up by 13.5 percent; and that of ethylene was 2.71 million tons, up by 2.3 percent; that of automobiles was 3500 thousand sets, up by 12.4 percent; that of cars was 1922 thousand sets, up by 19.5 percent.
The sales ratio of industrial products in the first two months was 97.9 percent, or 0.4 percentage points higher than that in the same period of last year. The total export delivery value of industrial enterprises was 1,547.0 billion yuan, a nominal year-on-year increase of 7.8 percent.

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