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Statistical Communique on China's 2014 National Economic and Social Development

(National Bureau of Statistics of China) Updated: 2015-02-26 14:04

III. Industry and Construction

The industrial production grew steadily. In 2014, the total value added of the industrial sector was 22,799.1 billion yuan, up by 7.0 percent over the previous year. The value added of industrial enterprises above the designated size increased by 8.3 percent. Of the industrial enterprises above the designated size, in terms of ownership, the value added of the state-owned and state-holding enterprises grew by 4.9 percent, that of the collective enterprises went up by 1.7 percent, that of the share-holding enterprises increased by 9.7 percent, that of the enterprises by foreign investors and investors from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan soared by 6.3 percent and that of private enterprises grew by 10.2 percent. In terms of the sectors, the value added of the mining industry grew by 4.5 percent, that of manufacturing by 9.4 percent and that of the production and supply of electric power, heat power, gas and water by 3.2 percent.

Statistical Communique on China's 2014 National Economic and Social Development

In 2014, of the industrial enterprises above designated size, the growth of value added for processing of food from agricultural products was 7.7 percent over the previous year; for textile industry was 6.7 percent; for manufacture of general machinery 9.1 percent; for manufacture of special purpose machinery 6.9 percent; for manufacture of automobiles 11.8 percent; for manufacture of computers, communication equipment and other electronic equipment 12.2 percent and for manufacture of electrical machinery and equipment 9.4 percent. The growth of the value added for the major six high energy consuming industries was 7.5 percent, of which, that of the manufacture of non-metallic mineral products was 9.3 percent, manufacture of raw chemical materials and chemical products 10.3 percent, smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals 12.4 percent, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals 6.2 percent, production and supply of electric power and heat power 2.2 percent and 5.4 percent for processing of petroleum, coking, processing of nuclear fuel. The value added growth for the high technology manufacturing industry[9] was 12.3 percent over the previous year, accounting for 10.6 percent of that of industrial enterprises above designated size. The value added growth for manufacturing of equipment[10] was 10.5 percent, accounting for 30.4 percent of that of industrial enterprises above designated size.

Table 3: Output of Major Industrial Products and the Growth Rates in 2014[1]

Product

Unit

Output

Increase over

2013 (%)

Yarn

10000 tons

3379.2

5.6

Cloth

100 million meters

893.7

-0.4

Chemical fibers

10000 tons

4389.8

5.5

Sugar (final product)

10000 tons

1642.7

3.1

Cigarettes

100 million

26098.5

1.9

Color TV sets

10000

14128.9

10.9

Of which: LCD TV sets

10000

13865.9

13.3

Household refrigerators

10000

8796.1

-5.0

Room air conditioners

10000

14463.3

10.7

Total primary energy production

100 million tons of

standard coal equivalent

36.0

0.5

Coal

100 million tons

38.7

-2.5

Crude oil

100 million tons

21142.9

0.7

Natural gas

100 million cubic meters

1301.6

7.7

Electricity

100 million kilowatt-hours

56495.8

4.0

Of which: Thermal-power

100 million kilowatt-hours

42337.3

-0.3

Hydro-power

100 million kilowatt-hours

10643.4

15.7

Nuclear-power

100 million kilowatt-hours

1325.4

18.8

Crude steel

10000 tons

82269.8

1.2

Rolled steel

10000 tons

112557.2

4.0

Ten kinds of nonferrous metals

10000 tons

4380.1

7.4

Of which: Refined copper (copper)

10000 tons

764.4

15.0

Aluminum electrolyze

10000 tons

2435.8

10.3

Aluminum oxide

10000 tons

4777.3

7.3

Cement

100 million tons

24.8

2.3

Sulfuric acid (100%)

10000 tons

8846.3

8.5

Soda ash

10000 tons

2514.2

3.4

Caustic soda (100%)

10000 tons

3059.0

4.5

Ethylene

10000 tons

1696.7

6.1

Chemical fertilizers

(100 percent equivalent)

10000 tons

6887.2

-2.0

Power-generating equipment

10000 kilowatts

15053.0

6.0

Motor vehicles

10000

2372.5

7.3

Of which: Basic passenger cars (cars)

10000

1248.3

3.1

Large & medium tractors

10000

64.4

-3.3

Integrated circuits

100 million pieces

1015.5

12.4

Program-controlled switchboards

10000 lines

3123.1

15.7

Mobile telephones

10000

162719.8

6.8

Micro-computers

10000

35079.6

-0.8

By the end of 2014, the installed power generation capacity was 1,360.19 million kilowatts, up by 8.7 percent over that of the previous year, among which[11] the installed thermal power generation capacity was 915.69 million kilowatts, up by 5.9 percent; the installed hydropower generation capacity was 301.83 million kilowatts, up by 7.9 percent; the installed nuclear power generation capacity was 19.88 million kilowatts, up by 36.1 percent. The installed grid-connected wind power generation capacity was 95.81 million kilowatts, up by 25.6 percent and the installed grid-connected solar power generation capacity was 26.52 million kilowatts, an increase of 67.0 percent.

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