In October this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.1 percent year on year, with this growth rate remaining stable compared to that in September, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on November 14. Meanwhile, in the January-October period of the current year, China’s overall value-added industrial output increased by six percent year on year.
In October this year, of the 41 industrial sectors in China, 35 witnessed year-on-year increases in value-added industrial output. In the given month, respective year-on-year increases of 8.2 percent, 8.3 percent, 17.9 percent and 2.4 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, and the electrical equipment and machinery sector, while the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector saw a year-on-year decrease of 3.3 percent in value-added industrial output.