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Nation's GDP growth in first half
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-18 10:49
China's economy surged a year-on-year 10.9 percent in the first half of
2006, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed Tuesday, roaring
ahead despite a slew of measures imposed by the government to ease
investment growth.
A labourer works on the scaffoldings at a construction site in Nanjing,
capital of east China's Jiangsu province July 11, 2006. China's gross
domestic product (GDP) grows a stunning 10.9 per cent in the first half
compared with the same period of 2005, state media reports said. [Reuters]
Total gross domestic product between January and June reached 9.14
trillion yuan (1.14 trillion U.S dollars), NBS spokesman Zheng Jingping
told a press conference in Beijing Tuesday morning.
China's macro-economy presents "obvious overheating of investment" in the
first half of this year, Wang Xiaoguang, a macroeconomics professor at
the economic research institute of the National Development and Reform
Commission, told Xinhua.
The NBS said total investment in roads, factory equipment and other fixed
assets soared 29.8 percent, an increase of 4.4 percentage points from the
same period of last year.
"The overheating is all-round, in nearly all industries and all regions
of the country," Wang said, urging the government to tighten
macro-control to contain the trend.
According to the NBS, the investment in urban areas in the past six
months reached 3,636.8 billion yuan, an increase of 31.3 percent or 4.2
percentage points higher, the highest growth since the second half year
of 2004.
Stimulated by the surging housing demand, the total investment in real
estate sector increased by 24.2 percent, or 0.7 percentage point higher
over the same period last year.
In terms of different industries, the investment in heavy industry was up
by 32.6 percent, of which the year-on-year growth of investment in coal
mining and washing was a record high of 45.7 percent.
The country's soaring demand for energy resources drives the investment
in extraction of petroleum and natural gas up 30.3 percent in the first
half of this year, and investment in production and supply of
electricity, gas and water went up by 17.5 percent.
While stimulated by the booming economic growth, the investment in
railway transportation, the main vehicle to transport production
materials in China, surged 87.6 percent in the first half of this year.
In addition, the year-on-year growth of investment in light industry was
41.2 percent, of which the investment in manufacturing of food was up by
65.1 percent, and that in textile industry up by 40.6 percent.
In the first half, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached
3,644.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 13.3 percent, NBS figures
show.
Of the total, the retail sales in urban areas reached 2,461.7 billion
yuan, up 14.0 percent, and the retail sales at and below country level
stood at 1,183.1 billion yuan, up 12.0 percent.
In terms of different sectors, the sales by wholesale and retail business
totaled 3,082.1 billion yuan, up 13.4 percent and that by lodging and
catering industry was 492.9 billion yuan, up 15.3 percent.
Among the wholesale and retail business, the year-on-year growth of the
retail sales of telecommunication equipment was 25.5 percent, and that of
petroleum products was 38.4 percent.
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