In April this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.0 percent year on year, with this growth rate 0.8 percentage points lower than that recorded in March, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Meanwhile, in the January-April period this year, China’s overall value-added industrial output increased by 5.8 percent year on year.
In April this year, of the 41 industrial sectors in China, 35 witnessed year-on-year increases in value-added industrial output. In the given month, respective year-on-year increases of 3.8 percent, 12.1 percent, 3.6 percent and 8.3 percent were recorded in value-added industrial outputs in 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, while the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector indicated a slight decrease of 0.3 percent year on year in value-added industrial output.