China’s industrial output up 5.4 pct in first five months
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China’s value-added industrial output increased by 5.4 percent year on year in the first five months of 2026, official data showed on Tuesday.
In May alone, industrial output grew 4.5 percent year on year, and rose 0.40 percent compared to the previous month, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics.
The industrial output is used to measure the activity of large enterprises, each with an annual main business turnover of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.94 million U.S. dollars).
In terms of sectors, the value-added output of the mining sector increased by 2.3 percent year on year in May, while that of the manufacturing sector grew by 4.4 percent. The value-added output of the electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply sectors went up by 7.6 percent, the data showed.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
