In April this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.5 percent year on year, with this growth rate 1.1 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 6.7 percent year on year.
In April this year, of the 41 industrial sectors in China, 36 witnessed year-on-year increases in value-added industrial output. In the given period, respective year-on-year increases of 10.8 percent, 9.2 percent, 7.3 percent, 9.1 percent and 0.2 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, the electrical equipment and machinery sector and the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector.