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Positive results achieved in the adjustment and revitalization of key industries such as equipment manufacturing and steel
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2010-11-02 12:00
At the beginning of 2009, the country successively formulated and introduced adjustment and revitalization plans for ten key industries including automobiles, steel, textiles, equipment manufacturing, shipbuilding, electronic information, light industry, petrochemicals, non-ferrous metals, and logistics. After more than a year of implementation, the results have been remarkable, and the role in responding to the crisis and maintaining growth has been evident," said a relevant official from the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in a recent interview.
According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in the first seven months of this year, nine industrial sectors involved in the key industry adjustment and revitalization plans, including automobiles and steel, achieved a year-on-year increase in added value of 17.2%; from January to May, profits reached 1.13 trillion yuan, an increase of 84.8%.
New progress has been made in industrial structure adjustment. Especially with the release and implementation of a series of industrial policies by the State Council, such as the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Work of Eliminating Backward Production Capacity," "Opinions on Promoting Enterprise Mergers and Restructuring," and "Several Opinions on Further Increasing Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction and Accelerating the Structural Adjustment of the Steel Industry," the pace of enterprise mergers and restructuring and elimination of backward production capacity has accelerated.
The merger and restructuring of the steel industry is progressing in an orderly manner. Since the beginning of this year, Benxi Steel has merged with Beitai Steel, Shougang has merged with Tonggang, Ansteel and Pangang have achieved joint restructuring, and four steel enterprises in Tianjin have jointly established Tianjin Bohai Steel Co., Ltd.
The automobile industry has achieved rapid growth in production and sales. After breaking through 10.21 million units in 2009, automobile production and sales reached 10.21 million and 10.26 million units respectively from January to July this year, a year-on-year increase of 43.6% and 42.7%. Among them, passenger car production and sales were 7.6732 million and 7.667 million units, up 46% and 43% year-on-year; commercial vehicle production and sales were 2.5386 million and 2.5935 million units, up 38% and 42% year-on-year. In the first half of the year, key enterprises in the automobile industry maintained a good development trend in economic operation, completing a total industrial output value of 936.663 billion yuan, up 59% year-on-year; total profits reached 107.996 billion yuan, up 155% year-on-year.
The shipbuilding industry continues to maintain rapid development. In the first seven months, the national shipbuilding completion volume reached 35.2 million deadweight tons, a year-on-year increase of 87.4%; new ship orders amounted to 33.32 million deadweight tons, 4.2 times the new orders in the same period last year; since the end of April, China's ship orders on hand have stopped falling and begun to rebound, reaching 188.16 million deadweight tons by the end of July, basically the same as at the end of 2009.