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Economic Watch: China’s industrial profits grow steadily in 2020 as market demand improves

Abstract : China recorded a steady increase in major industrial profits last year as market demand improved amid sustained economic recovery, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday.

Photo
taken on Dec. 9, 2020 shows a production line in the car body workshop
of the Beijing-Hyundai Works in Cangzhou City of north China’s Hebei
Province. (Photo by Yuan Liwei/Xinhua)

In
2020, the profits of major industrial firms with an annual business
turnover of at least 20 million yuan rose 4.1 percent year on year to
more than 6.45 trillion yuan.

BEIJING,
Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — China recorded a steady increase in major
industrial profits last year as market demand improved amid sustained
economic recovery, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
on Wednesday.

In
2020, the profits of major industrial firms with an annual business
turnover of at least 20 million yuan (about 3.09 million U.S. dollars)
rose 4.1 percent year on year to more than 6.45 trillion yuan, the NBS
data shows.

Hit
by the COVID-19 epidemic at the beginning of last year, these firms saw
their profits decline by 36.7 percent year on year in the first
quarter.

But
profits rebounded in the second quarter, increasing 4.8 percent year on
year as companies steadily resumed work and production. Profits surged
15.9 percent and 20.8 percent in the third and fourth quarters,
respectively, as economic recovery accelerated.

In
December alone, the profits of these major industrial firms surged 20.1
percent year on year, registering double-digit growth for a seventh
consecutive month.

Specifically,
state-controlled industrial firms saw their profits drop 2.9 percent
last year from one year earlier, falling to nearly 1.49 trillion yuan.
Profits in the private sector grew 3.1 percent year on year to about
2.03 trillion yuan.

Profits
in the mining industry sank 31.5 percent from a year earlier, while the
manufacturing industry saw a 7.6 percent rise, and firms involved in
the production and supply of electricity, thermal power, gas and water
registered a 4.9 percent year-on-year increase.

Profits
in 26 of 41 surveyed industrial sectors rose from the previous year,
and 15 sectors saw their profits fall, according to the NBS.

Last
year, the total revenue of major industrial firms rose 0.8 percent year
on year to reach 106.14 trillion yuan, with costs per 100 yuan of
revenue dropping 0.11 yuan from 2019 to 83.89 yuan.

Senior
NBS statistician Zhu Hong said that while industrial enterprises have
seen their production and operations recover steadily and profits
continue to increase, they still face problems including rapidly growing
accounts receivables, increased inventories, and relatively high cash
flow pressure.

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