National Economic Performance in April

In April, national economy kept picking up tendency.

. Industrial production increased faster. In April, total value-added of industry was 226.6 billion yuan, up by 11.5% over the same month of last year. Of which, the total value-added of state-owned and state-owned share holding industry was 129.9 billion yuan, up 10.7% over the same month of last year at comparable prices. And the total value-added of share holding enterprises reached 68.1 billion yuan, up 11.5%, and that of collective enterprises was 26.7 billion yuan, up 7.5% over the same month of last year at comparable prices. Foreign investment and Hong Kong Macao & Taiwan investment enterprises completed 54.8 billion yuan, up by 14.3%over the same month of last year at comparable prices.

In April, total value-added of heavy industry reached 137.9 billion yuan, up by 13.5% over the same month of last year. And that of light industry reached 88.7 billion yuan, up by 9% over the same period of last year. From January to April, The sales ratio of industrial production reached 96.51%.

From January to April, value of delivered export goods realized by industrial enterprises reached 126.4 billion yuan, up by 10.9% over the same month of last year at comparable prices.

. Exports continued to increase. From January to April, total value of exports and imports was 158.13 billion US dollars, up by 15.4% over the same period of last year. Of which, that of exports was 81.76 billion US dollars, up by 13.2%, that of imports was 76.37billion US dollars, up by 17.8%. The surplus was 5.38 billion US dollars.

In April, the total value of exports was 22.79 billion US dollars, up by 11.1% over the same month of last year. And that of imports was 21.86 billion US dollars , up 19.1 over the same month of last year. The surplus was 0.932 billion US dollars.

. Financial performance developed steadily. By the end of April, broad money M2 was 113994.99 billion yuan, up 12.8% over the same period of last year. Narrow money M1 was 5326.13 billion yuan, up 15% over the same period of last year, money in circulation M0 was 11462.3 billion yuan, up by 6.9% over the same period of last year.

Various deposits balance in financial institutions was 13.1 trillion yuan, up by 15.5% over the same period of last year. Of which, deposits of enterprises reached 4.6 trillion yuan, and urban and rural savings deposits was 6.9 trillion yuan , up by 9.7%.

By the end of April, various loans balance in financial institutions was 10.3 trillion yuan, up by 13.7% over the same month of last year. New-loans of financial institutions was 102.1 billion yuan in this month, up 20 billion yuan over that in the same period of last year. In the first 4 months of this year, the loans reached 409 billion yuan, up 43.9 billion yuan over the same period of last year.

. Market price pick up to some extent. In April, consumer price index was 101.6%. Of which, food price index was 101.3%, clothing price index was 98%, fresh vegetable price index was 108.7%, and resident price index was 101.6%.Retail sales price index was 100.1%.

. Investment in fixed assets continued to increase. By the end of April, investment in fixed assets in state-owned and other ownership (excluding urban and rural collective and individual investment) was 423.57 billion yuan, up 12.1% over the same period of last year. Of which, investment in capital construction was 223.35 billion yuan, up by 12.1% over the same period of last year.That in technical updates and transformation was 80.39 billion yuan, up by 24.8%,that in real estate was 105.73 billion yuan, up by 22.8%.