In December last year,
China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 0.71 percent month on month and by 9.7 percent year on year, with the year-on-year growth rate in question down 0.3 percentage points compared to that recorded in November, as announced by
China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on January 20. Meanwhile, in 2013
China's value-added industrial output rose by 9.7 percent year on year.
In December, 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 7.7 percent, 8.2 percent, 20.8 percent, 9.0 percent and 11.3 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.