Sales in the domestic market have picked up, and the growth rate of manufacturing industry has picked up significantly
According to the news on the website of the National Bureau of statistics on the morning of 15th, in April, the domestic epidemic prevention and control continued to consolidate, the resumption of work and production was solidly promoted, the production demand was gradually improved, the basic industry was strongly supported, the market was expected to be generally stable, the new momentum was against the trend, the economic activity was increased, and the main indicators continued the momentum of recovery and improvement since March.
1、 Industrial production has changed from decreasing to increasing, and the growth rate of manufacturing industry has picked up significantly
In April, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 3.9% year-on-year, decreased by 1.1% in March, and increased by 2.27% month on month. From January to April, the added value of industries above designated size decreased by 4.9% year on year, 3.5 percentage points lower than that from January to March. In April, by economic type, the added value of state-owned holding enterprises increased by 0.5%; that of joint-stock enterprises increased by 4.0%; that of foreign-funded enterprises, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan enterprises increased by 3.9%; and that of private enterprises increased by 7.0%. In terms of three categories, the added value of mining industry increased by 0.3%; the manufacturing industry increased by 5.0%, down by 1.8% in March; the production and supply industries of power, heat, gas and water increased by 0.2%. The high-tech manufacturing industry and equipment manufacturing industry grew rapidly. In April, the added value of high-tech manufacturing and equipment manufacturing increased by 10.5% and 9.3% respectively, faster than that of industries above Designated Size by 6.6 and 5.4 percentage points. In terms of product output, the output of optical cable, digging and earth moving machinery, integrated circuit, industrial robot and microcomputer equipment increased by 43.8%, 40.8%, 29.2%, 26.6% and 26.2% respectively year on year.
2、 The decline of service industry is narrowed, and the growth of modern service industry is better
In April, the national service industry production index fell 4.5% year-on-year, which was 4.6 percentage points lower than that in March. From January to April, the service industry production index fell by 9.9% year on year, 1.8 percentage points lower than that from January to March. From the perspective of major industries, in April, information transmission, software and information technology services, finance, real estate increased by 5.2%, 4.4% and 1.1% year-on-year respectively; transportation, storage and postal industry, wholesale and retail industry, accommodation and catering industry decreased by 5.0%, 6.6% and 33.7% year-on-year respectively, and the decline was 9.7, 8.1 and 15.4 percentage points narrowed than that in March. From January to March, the operating revenue of service enterprises above designated size decreased by 11.5% year-on-year, among which the information transmission, software and information technology services increased by 4.0%. In April, the service business activity index was 52.1%, up 0.3 percentage points from March. Business activities in most industries recovered steadily, with 14 of the 21 industries surveyed having a business activity index higher than 50.0%. The index of new orders in the service industry was 51.9%, up 2.6 percentage points from March; the index of expected business activities was 59.2%, up 2.4 percentage points.
3、 Market sales have recovered, and the proportion of physical goods online retail has continued to increase
In April, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 281.78 billion yuan, down 7.5% year on year, 8.3 percentage points lower than that in March, and 0.32% higher than that in March. From January to April, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 10675.8 billion yuan, down 16.2% year on year, 2.8 percentage points lower than that from January to March. In April, according to the location of business units, the retail sales of urban consumer goods reached 2455.8 billion yuan, down 7.5% year on year; the retail sales of rural consumer goods reached 362 billion yuan, down 7.7%. By consumption type, catering revenue was 230.7 billion yuan, down 31.1%; retail sales of goods was 2587.1 billion yuan, down 4.6%. Basic living goods grew rapidly. In April, the retail sales of grain, oil, food and beverage increased by 18.2% and 12.9% respectively year on year. Sales of consumer upgrading goods improved. In April, communication equipment and cultural office supplies increased by 12.2% and 6.5%, respectively, 5.7 and 0.4 percentage points higher than that in March. Online retail is more active. From January to April, the national online retail sales reached 3069.8 billion yuan, up 1.7% year-on-year, down 0.8% from January to March. Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods increased by 8.6%, 2.7 percentage points faster than that from January to March, accounting for 24.1% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods, and 0.5 percentage points higher than that from January to March.
4、 Fixed asset investment improved, while investment in high-tech industries decreased significantly
From January to April, China's fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) was 13682.4 billion yuan, down 10.3% year-on-year, 5.8 percentage points lower than that from January to March, and 6.19% higher than that in April. By sector, investment in infrastructure fell 11.8% year-on-year, investment in manufacturing fell 18.8%, and investment in real estate development fell 3.3%, 7.9, 6.4 and 4.4 percentage points lower than that in January March, respectively. The sales area of commercial housing in China was 339.73 million square meters, down 19.3%; the sales volume of commercial housing was 3186.3 billion yuan, down 18.6%, down 7.0% and 6.1% respectively from January to March. By industry, investment in the primary industry decreased by 5.4%, investment in the secondary industry decreased by 16.0%, and investment in the tertiary industry decreased by 7.8%, which was 8.4, 5.9, and 5.7 percentage points lower than that in January March. Investment in high-tech industry decreased by 3.0%, less than 7.3% of total investment, 9.1% lower than that from January to March; among them, investment in high-tech manufacturing industry and high-tech service industry decreased by 3.6% and 1.7% respectively. In the high-tech manufacturing industry, the investment in computer and office equipment manufacturing increased by 15.4%. In the high-tech service industry, investment in transformation services of scientific and technological achievements, e-commerce services and professional technical services increased by 28.0%, 25.6% and 12.5% respectively. Investment in the social sector decreased by 3.1%, 5.7% lower than that in January March, of which investment in health and education increased by 4.7% and 2.9% respectively from a negative to a positive year-on-year growth
