In the January-February period this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.8 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on March 11, with this growth rate 1.1 percentage points lower than the year-on-year increase rate recorded in December last year.
In the January-February period, of the 41 industrial sectors in China, 40 witnessed year-on-year increases in value-added industrial output. In the given month, respective year-on-year increases of 3.5 percent, 4.8 percent, 8.4 percent, 10.5 percent and 7.8 percent were recorded in value-added industrial outputs in the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector, 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.