In December, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 7.3 percent year-on-year (the growth rate of added value below is the real growth rate after deducting price factors), 0.3 percentage point faster than that in November. On a month-on-month basis, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 1.10 percent in December. In 2020, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 2.8 percent over the previous year.

Divided into three categories, in December, the added value of the mining industry increased by 4.9 percent year-on-year, 2.9 percentage points faster than that in November; the manufacturing industry increased by 7.7 percent, the same as last month; the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas and water increased by 6.1 percent, 0.7 percentage point faster.

In terms of economic types, in December, the added value of state-owned holding enterprises increased by 6.4 percent year-on-year; joint stock enterprises increased by 7.0 percent, foreign-invested enterprises and enterprises invested by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan increased by 8.5 percent; and private enterprises increased by 7.6 percent.

By industry, in December, the added value of 35 of 41 major industries maintained a year-on-year growth. Agricultural and sideline food processing industry increased by 1.5 percent, textile industry increased by 5.2 percent, chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry increased by 7.5 percent, non-metallic mineral products industry increased by 7.5 percent, ferrous metal smelting and processing industry increased by 10.7 percent, non-ferrous metal smelting and processing industry increased by 3.8 percent, general equipment manufacturing industry increased by 11.1 percent, special equipment manufacturing industry increased by 8.7 percent, automobile manufacturing industry increased by 9.7 percent The shipbuilding, aerospace and other transportation equipment manufacturing industry increased by 8.7 percent, the electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry increased by 15.6 percent, the computer, communication and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry increased by 11.4 percent, and the power and heat production and supply industry increased by 5.4 percent.

By region, in December, the added value of the eastern region increased by 8.8 percent, that of the central, western and northeast region rose by 6.9, 4.5 and 8.3 percent respectively.

By product, in December, 417 of 612 products increased year-on-year. Steel was 120.34 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 12.8 percent; cement  was 213.33 million tons, an increase of 6.3 percent; ten kinds of non-ferrous metals was 5.75 million tons, an increase of 8.6 percent; ethylene was 2.08 million tons, an increase of 11.3 percent; automobile was 2.804 million, an increase of 6.5 percent, including new energy automobile 238,000 sets, an increase of 55.6 percent; power generation was 727.7 billion kwh, an increase of 9.1 percent; crude oil processing capacity was 60 million tons, an increase of 2.1 percent.

In December, the product sales rate of industrial enterprises was 98.4 percent, which was the same as that in the same month of last year; the export delivery value of industrial enterprises reached 1,275.3 billion yuan, a nominal increase of 9.5 percent year on year.