According to the Municipal Committee on Economy and Information, the total industrial output value of large state-owned industrial enterprises and large non state-owned industrial enterprises has reached to ￥355.102 billion from January to September, up 13.3% over the same period of last year; and the complete value-added of industry increased 9.4% over the same period of last year, with a growth rate of 0.3 percentage points higher than the average of Hubei province. The overall development of industries and economy in Yichang remains stable, with a slowly rebounded growth and a faster growth rate than that of the entire province, even the whole country.
According to statistics from the Municipal Committee on Economy and Information, the production and sales of industrial enterprises is fairly good; we have a steady increase in manufacturing of most of our key products; it is obviously to see that the amount of goods delivered rose month by month, the economic development steadily improved; and the power consumption of industries maintains steady growth; besides, the electrical entities for enterprises has increased greatly, compared with that of the same season in last year and the utilization of the productivity has also improved greatly.
Among 39 major industries, the added-value of 31 sectors maintains growth, with over 20 percent increase in 9 sectors. The four major pillar industries, including fine chemicals, food and bio-medicine, advanced equipment manufacturing and new materials, play a leading role in the economic growth of Yichang. The total industrial output value of these four industries reached to ￥274.484 billion, with an increase of 15.2 percent over the same period of last year, accounted for 77.3% of the city\'s industries.
The statistics also shows that the complete industrial output value of the fine chemical industry increased to ￥111.644 billion with an increase of 14.0 percent compared with that of the same season. The industrial output value of food and biomedical industries reached to ￥110.701 billion, with an increase of 21.9% over the same period of last year, thus making the increase rate of this industry rank the first among eight industries, and the divide between the fine chemical industry narrowed to ￥943 million. Liquor industries such as Daohuaxiang, Zhijiang Winery and Chuyuanchun have overcome difficulties and made great effort for the industrial restructuring as well as for more production of medium and low-end varieties catering to the market. The growth in liquor industries was greatly contributed by the sound development of network market and the improvement of market and brand competitiveness.
The total industrial output value of the advanced manufacturing sets reached to ￥49.011 billion, growing by 6.5 percent over the same period of last year. This year, 5123 cars have been assembled by GAC ZXAUTO, with 52.8 percent increase of output value in automobile manufacturing. In the keen market competition of shipbuilding industry, the deadweight of civil steel-made ships reached to 373,200 tons, up 1.2 percent over the same period of last year. The growth rate of instrument and meter industries almost doubled. Hydraulic cylinder elements manufactured by Jiangyi Machinery Company have been exported to the international market, and the complete output value of this company rose by 3.3 fold on last year’s same period to ￥1.05 billion.
The total industrial output value of new material industry reached to ￥41.834 billion with increase of 16.7 percent over the same period of last year.Meanwhile,503,000 kw solar energy cells have been produced, with an increase of 13.2 percent over the same period of last year.(By Long Yizhou)