In the first quarter of this year, the industrial production continued to grow faster, the value-added from all the state-owned industrial enterprises, and non state-owned ones with annual sales revenue over 5 million yuan reached 1441.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 16.2% which was down by 1.5 percentage points over the rise of the same period of last year. Especially, the value-added in this March was 536.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 15.1% which was down by 4.3 percentage points.

    The proportion of industrial products sold went up slightly. In the first quarter of last year, the proportion of the national industrial products sold was 97.33%, up by 0.34 percentage point over the same period of last year.

    The export of industrial products went on increasing rapidly. In the first quarter of this year, the consignment export value of the industrial enterprises above designated size reached 947.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 31.6% which was 1.1 percentage points higher than the rise of the same period of last year. Especially, the consignment export value in this March was 343.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 25.7% which declined by 7.7 percentage points over the rise of the first two months of this year.

    The production of investment-oriented products rose more rapidly. In the first quarter of this year, the outputs of pig iron, raw steel and steel products showed the year-on-year rises of 27.3%, 23.8% and 22.4% respectively. The yields of boilers, gas turbines and hydraulic turbines for power stations rose 48.4%, 109.1% and 31.3% respectively; that of power generation equipment rose 27.7%, of which, the output of generators powered by gas turbines went up 41.9%, that of generators powered by hydraulic turbines declined 7.5%. The equipment for mining and metal rolling was up 25.9% and 38.5% respectively; those of grain processing machinery, tobacco processing machinery, cotton processing equipment, paper-making machinery and package equipment rose from 23.5% to 35.8%. The yield of flat glasses went up 17.5%.

    The output of main energy products grew faster. In the first quarter of this year, the outputs of the coal and electricity from the industrial enterprises above designated size totaled 382 million tons and 544.9 billion kwh, the year-on-year rises of 9.1% and 13% respectively.