SteelOrbis Shanghai
In April, the added value of China's above-scale industry increased by 15.7 percent year on year. This growth rate is 2.1 percentage points lower than the figure for March, and represents a decrease of 1.7 percentage points year on year.
Broken down into the various industry sectors, in April the production of coal, crude oil, and electricity in China totaled 210 million mt, 15.41 million mt, and 281.4 billion KWh, up 13.9 percent, 0.5 percent, and 12.8 percent respectively year on year. Meanwhile, the outputs of pig iron, crude steel, and finished steel reached 41.27 million mt, 44.68 million mt, 51.61 million mt, up 9.1 percent, 10.2 percent, and 11.7 percent compared with the corresponding period last year. Meanwhile, cement production rose by 10.8 percent to 120 million mt, with automobile production up by 22.2 percent to one million units.