Industrial Production Operation in October 2018

In October 2018, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 5.9 percent year-on-year in real terms (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), an increase of 0.1 percentage point from September. In October, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size went up by 0.48 percent month-on-month. In the first ten months, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 6.4 percent year-on-year, and the growth rate was unchanged from that in the first nine months.

In view of three sectors, the value added of mining and quarrying increased 3.8 percent year-on-year in October, and the growth rate increased 1.6 percentage point from September, that of manufacturing increased 6.1 percent, an increase of 0.4 percentage point, and that of production and distribution of electricity, heating power, gas and water was up by 6.8 percent, a decrease of 4.2 percentage points.

Analysis on different types of enterprises showed that, in October, the value added of the state holding enterprises increased 4.6 percent year-on-year,that of collective enterprises decreased 3.6 percent, that of joint-stock enterprises increased 6.7 percent, that of enterprises funded by foreign investors or investors from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan province increased 3.9 percent.

Grouped by different sectors, in October, 37 industries within 41 industrial divisions kept year-on-year growth. Of this total, the growth of processing of food from agricultural products was 4.7 percent; the textile industry was up by 1.1 percent; the manufacture of raw chemical materials and chemical products, up by 4.4 percent; the manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, up by 7.7 percent; the manufacture and processing of ferrous metals, up by 10.1 percent; the manufacture and processing of non-ferrous metals, up by 8.7 percent; the manufacture of general-purpose machinery, up by 6.8 percent; the manufacture of special-purpose machinery, up by 8.1 percent; the manufacture of automobile industry, down by 0.7 percent; the manufacture of railway locomotives, building of ships and boats, manufacture of air and spacecraft and other transportation equipment, up by 5.0 percent; the manufacture of electric machinery and equipment, up by 6.8 percent; the manufacture of computer, communication equipment and other electronic equipment, up by 14.6 percent; the production and supply of electric power and heat power, up by 5.9 percent.

In terms of different regions, in October, the value-added of eastern region increased 5.5 percent year-on-year; central region went up by 6.0 percent; western region went up by 6.7 percent; northeastern region went up by 6.1 percent.

In terms of different products, 343 products within 596 products kept year-on-year growth. Of this total, the output of pig iron was 98.02 million tons, went up by 11.5 percent year-on-year; that of cement was 220.43 million tons, went up by 13.1 percent; that of 10 kinds of nonferrous metals was 4.52 million tons, up by 5.5 percent; that of ethylene was 1,610 thousand tons, up by 0.9 percent; that of automobiles was 2,370 thousand sets, down by 9.2 percent; that of cars was 9,790 thousand sets, down by 7.1 percent; that of electricity was 533 billion kilowatt-hours, up by 4.8 percent; that of crude oil was 52.78 million tons, up by 4.6 percent.

The sales ratio of industrial products in October was 98.1 percent, a decrease of 0.4 percentage point from the same month of last year. The total export delivery value of industrial enterprises was 1,148.9 billion yuan, an increase of 14.7 percent year-on-year.

Annotations:

1. Explanation of Indicator.

Growth rate of value added of the industrial enterprises: also known as industrial growth rate, which is used to reflect a certain period of increase or decrease in volume of industrial production indicators of the degree of change. The indicator can be used to estimate the short-term trend of the industrial economy, to judge the extent of the economic boom, and also to be an important reference and basis for the formulation and adjustment of economic policies, and for the implementation of macroeconomic adjustment and control.

Sales ratio: refers to sale value and industrial output value, which reflecting the situation between production and sales of industrial products.

Export delivery value: refers to the foreign trade department of industrial enterprises or self-run (commission) exports (including sold in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), with the price of foreign exchange settlement of product value, and foreign samples, materials processing, component assembly and compensation trade product value.

Daily product output: the total production of the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size in the current month divided by number of days in the month.

2. Statistical Coverage.

The standard starting point of industrial enterprises above designated size was 20 million yuan of annual revenue from primary business.

Due to the annual changes of the coverage of industrial enterprises above designated size, and in order to ensure that the data for this year is comparable with that of the previous year, the data of the corresponding period used for calculating the year-on-year growth rates of various indicators such as product output is as consistent with the enterprise statistical coverage of the current period as possible, and there is a difference in caliber from the data published last year. The main reasons are: (1) Coverage changes of statistical units. Each year, some companies will be included in the survey after having reached requisite size, and some will exit the survey due to their smaller size, and there are also influence of new built and starting enterprises, bankruptcies, and companies that have been suspended or sold. (2) There is cross-regional repeated calculation in the output data of some enterprise group (company) products, which has been eliminated according to specific surveys.

3. Data Collection.

The reports of industrial enterprises above designated size are conducted with complete survey on a monthly basis (Not report for January).

4. Division on Eastern, Central and Western Regions.

Eastern region includes Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong, and Hainan. Central region includes Shanxi, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan. Western region includes Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. Northeastern region includes Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

5. Standard on industrial classification

NBS enforces New Standard on Industrial Classification for National Economic Activities" (GB/T 4754-2017). For details, please refer the following link: http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/tjbz/hyflbz.

6. Revision on month-on-month data

The month-on-month growth rate of the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size from October 2017 to Sebtember 2018 was revised according to the results of automatic revision of seasonal adjustment model. The results and data in October 2018 are as follows: