GLOBAL TIMES ONLINE: Jining enjoys steady economic growth in Q1-3

In the first three quarters of this year, Jining’s GDP totaled 396.83 billion yuan ($56.43 billion), an increase of 4.5 percent year-on-year.

During this period, the added value of the primary industry reached 43.58 billion yuan, up 4.9 percent year-on-year. The secondary industry amounted to 165.04 billion yuan, an increase of 5 percent, while the tertiary industry climbed to 188.2 billion yuan, up 3.9 percent year-on-year.

The city’s agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industries achieved a total output value of 81.13 billion yuan from January to September, an increase of 5.7 percent year-on-year, and all four industries hit output values of 50.34 billion yuan, 1.07 billion yuan, 17.2 billion yuan and 6.77 billion yuan, respectively.

Over this period, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size witnessed an increase of 10 percent year-on-year, with the mining industry rising by 26.6 percent year-on-year, which added 8.3 percent to the city’s entire secondary industry. The manufacturing sector saw an annual increase of 3.2 percent.

From January to August, revenue of 815 enterprises above designated size stood at a total of 35.65 billion yuan in the service industry, up 19 percent year-on-year.

In the first three quarters, the city achieved a total import and export volume of 59.29 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 27.5 percent.

During this period, the per capita disposable income of Jining’s residents reached 25,798 yuan, an increase of 5.6 percent year-on-year. The per capita disposable income of urban residents hit 33,069 yuan and that of rural residents amounted to 17,152 yuan.

source: GLOBAL TIMES ONLINE