In 2014, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.3 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on February 26.
In 2014, respective year-on-year increases of 6.2 percent, 9.1 percent, 11.8 percent and 9.4 percent were recorded in China in value-added industrial outputs in the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector, the general purpose machinery sector, the automotive sector, and the electrical equipment and machinery sector.