In April, China's all state-owned industrial enterprises and non-state-owned industrial enterprises with an annual sales income over 5 million yuan registered altogether an added value of 564.7 billion yuan, 16 percent higher over the same period of last year, People's Daily reporter learned from the State Statistics Bureau. Of them, heavy industry achieved an added value of 391.3 billion yuan, an increase of 16.5 percent, which is 1.6 percentage points higher than that of light industry.

The sale rate of industrial products was 97.9 percent, 0.47 percentage points higher than that of the same month of last year. Industrial enterprises obtained an export consignment value of 379.2 billion yuan, up 29.9 percent.

Viewed from product categories, products and their respective growth rates are: power generation 12.7 percent, crude coal 5.4 percent, pig iron 34.4 percent, crude steel 25.4 percent and steel 23.7 percent; cement 9.6 percent and sheet glass 8.2 percent; aluminium 22.3 percent and aluminium oxide 14.7 percent; micro-computer 68.5 percent, and automobile 6.8 percent.

By People's Daily Online