In September this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 5.8 percent year on year, with this growth rate 0.3 percentage points lower compared to that recorded in August this year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In the January-September period of the current year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.4 percent year on year.
In the January-September period this year, of the 41 industrial sectors in China, 38 witnessed year-on-year increases in value-added industrial output. In the given month, respective year-on-year increases of 10.1 percent, 6.1 percent, 0.7 percent, 2.4 percent and 5.2 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.