- Agricultural Production Showed Good Momentum.
The total output of summer grain was 141.07 million tons, an increase of 4.47 million tons, up by 3.3 percent. The output of early rice was 33.69 million tons, a decrease of 320 thousand tons, down by 0.9 percent. The autumn grain production is expected to get a good harvest again. In the first three quarters of 2015, the total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry reached 58.96 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 1.3 percent. The output of pork reached 38.28 million tons, down by 3.6 percent.
- The Growth of Industrial Production Went Stabilized.
The total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size in the first three quarters was up by 6.2 percent at comparable prices, or 0.1 percentage point lower than that in the first half of the year. An analysis by types of ownership showed that the value added growth of state holding enterprises went up by 1.3 percent; collective enterprises up by 1.7 percent; share-holding enterprises up by 7.5 percent; and enterprises funded by foreign investors or investors from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan provinces up by 3.5 percent. In terms of sectors, the value added growth for mining industry was up by 3.3 percent year-on-year; manufacturing up by 7.0 percent and the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas and water up by 1.7 percent. Out of the 565 kinds of industrial products, 288 kinds registered year-on-year increases in output. In the first three quarters, the sales ratio of industrial enterprises above designated size was 97.5 percent. The export delivery value of the industrial enterprises above designated size reached 8,618.7 billion yuan, down by 1.1 percent. In September, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 5.7 percent year-on-year, or 0.38 percent month-on-month.
In the first eight months of this year, the profits made by industrial enterprises above designated size stood at 3,766.3 billion yuan, down by 1.9 percent year-on-year. The costs for per-hundred-yuan turnover of primary activities of the industrial enterprises above designated size reached 86.13 yuan, and the profit rate from primary activities was 5.38 percent.
- The Growth of Investment in Fixed Assets Slowed Down.
In the first three quarters of 2015, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) was 39,453.1 billion yuan, a nominal year-on-year growth of 10.3 percent (a real growth of 12.0 percent after deducting price factors), or 1.1 percentage points lower than that in the first half of the year. Of this total, the investment by state holding enterprises reached 12,520.1 billion yuan, an increase of 11.4 percent; private investment reached 25,561.4 billion yuan, up by 10.4 percent, accounting for 64.8 percent of the total investment. The investment in the primary industry reached 1,100.7 billion yuan, up by 27.4 percent year-on-year; that in the secondary industry was 16,218.9 billion yuan, up by 8.0 percent; and that in the tertiary industry was 22,133.5 billion yuan, up by 11.2 percent. The amount in place for investment in the first three quarters of 2015 was 41,771.7 billion yuan, up by 6.8 percent. Specifically, the state budget went up by 20.5 percent, domestic loans dropped by 4.4 percent, self-raising funds increased by 8.2 percent and foreign investment was down by 26.2 percent. The total planned investment in newly-started projects was 29,982.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.8 percent. In September, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) went up by 0.68 percent month-on-month.
