Production has stabilized and improved, consumption has gradually recovered, and efficiency has remained stable. In the first half of the year, the operation of the light industry has stabilized and rebounded year-on-year | Industry | Light Industry
CCTV News: The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday that since the beginning of this year, light industry production has stabilized and improved, consumption has gradually recovered, and efficiency has remained stable. The operation of the light industry has stabilized and rebounded.
Production is stabilizing and improving. In the first half of this year, the added value of light industry increased by 0.4% year-on-year, achieving a positive transformation from negative. Among them, in June, the added value of light industry increased by 2.3% year-on-year, up 1.7 percentage points from May.
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Consumption is gradually recovering. In the first half of the year, the retail sales of 11 key light industry commodities reached 3.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 15.4% of the total retail sales of consumer goods in society, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%.
The benefits remain stable. In the first half of this year, there were 132000 enterprises above designated size in the light industry, achieving a revenue of 10.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%, 2.5 percentage points higher than the national industrial sector, and achieving a profit of 568.2 billion yuan.
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He Yaqiong, Director of the Consumer Products Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Overall, in the first half of this year, despite the continuous recovery of the domestic economy, the development of light industry still maintained good resilience and played a good supporting role in the stable development of the industrial economy.