National Bureau of Statistics: The value added of industries above scale actually increased 4.9% year-on-year in October

The Zhitong Finance App learned that data released by the National Bureau of Statistics shows that in October, the value added of industries above scale actually increased 4.9% year-on-year (the growth rate of value added is the actual growth rate after deducting price factors). On a month-on-month basis, in October, the value added of industries above scale increased by 0.17% over the previous month. From January to October, the value added of large-scale industries increased by 6.1% year-on-year.

Looking at the three major categories, in October, the value added of the mining industry increased 4.5% year on year, the manufacturing industry grew 4.9%, and the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas and water increased 5.4%.

By economic type, in October, the value added of state-owned enterprises increased 6.7% year on year; joint-stock enterprises increased 5.2%; foreign-invested enterprises, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan grew 4.0%; and private enterprises increased 2.1%.

By industry, the value added of 29 of 41 major industries increased year-on-year in October. Among them, the coal mining and washing industry grew 6.5%, the oil and gas extraction industry grew 1.9%, the agricultural and sideline food processing industry grew 2.5%, the alcohol, beverage and refined tea manufacturing industry fell 1.9%, the textile industry grew 0.2%, the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry grew 7.1%, the non-metallic mineral products industry decreased by 3.2%, the ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry grew by 1.4%, the non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry grew by 3.7%, the general equipment manufacturing industry grew 0.7%, and the automobile manufacturing industry grew 16.8%. The railway, ship, aerospace and other transportation equipment manufacturing industry grew 15.2%, the electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry grew 4.9%, the computer, communications and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry grew 8.9%, and the electricity, heat production and supply industry grew 5.9%.

By product, in October, the output of 313 products out of 623 products in large-scale industries increased year-on-year. Among them, 118.64 million tons of steel, a year-on-year decrease of 0.9%; 147.75 million tons of cement, a decrease of 15.8%; 6.95 million tons of ethylene, an increase of 11.7%; 3.279,000 tons of automobiles, an increase of 11.2%; 1.71 million new energy vehicles, an increase of 19.3%; power generation capacity of 80.2 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 7.9%; and 63.43 million tons of crude oil, an increase of 6.4%.

In October, the product sales rate of industrial enterprises above scale was 96.4%, down 1.0 percentage point from year on year; industrial enterprises above scale achieved export delivery value of 1324.5 billion yuan, a nominal decrease of 2.1% year on year.

Main data on industrial production above scale for October 2025

This article was edited by the National Bureau of Statistics, Zhitong Finance Editor: Xu Wenqiang.