In the first seven months of this year, the value-added from the industrial enterprises above designated size(referring to all the state-owned, and state share-holding enterprises with the annual sales revenue of over 5 million yuan) totaled 2933.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 17.3%, especially, that in this July reached 440.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 15.5% which was 0.7 percentage point down over the rise of last month and one percentage point lower than last July.

    The operation of the industrial economy in this July showed the following characteristics:

    Firstly, the yields of the main consumer goods such as energy, materials and hot-spot consumer goods still kept the relatively higher growing speed, but those of most products continued to drop. In this July, among the energy products, the increase of the output of the first class energy products rose in the rise over last months, those of coal, crude oil and natural gas went up 14%, 4.4% and 16.5% year on year respectively, which were 1.7, 2 and 0.2 percentage higher in the rise over last month respectively. The amount of electricity generated reached 189.88 billion KWH, declining in the rise, specifically speaking, and a year-on-year rise of 11.7% which was 2.6 percentage points lower than the rise of last month, but total amount of electricity generated in this July was more than 15 billion KWH, up 8.6%. Among the major materials, the outputs of raw steel and steel products were up 20.3% and 18.5£¥ respectively which were 6.5 and 1.2 percentage points higher over the rise of last month; those of cement and flat glasses rose 11£¥and 20.7% respectively which were 2.2 and 12.9 percentage points down over the rise of last month; those of iron alloy and alumina were up 8.4% and 10.8% which were 10 and 5.4 lower than the rise of last month. Among the hot-spot consumer goods, the yields of mobile phone and color TV rose 30.2% and 24.2% respectively over last July which were 4.2 and 1.9 percentage points down over the rise of last month; that of autos climbed 5.4%, down by 15 percentage points, especially, that of sedan cars was up 0.5%, down by 19.9 percentage points.

    Secondly, the export consignment value of industrial products continued to grow faster. In this July, it reached 302.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 33.3% which was 5 percentage points higher over last July. According to calculation, the contribution rate from the export to the growth of the whole industry was about 25%, thus forcing the industry to rise by around 3.9 percentage points.

    Thirdly, the connection between production and sale improved slightly. In this July, the proportion of industrial products sold was 98.7% which was up by 0.28 percentage point over last July.