China's Fixed-Asset Investment up 5.4 Pct in 2019
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DATE : JAN 17 2020/SOURCE : XINHUA
China's Fixed-Asset Investment up 5.4 Pct in 2019
(Yicai Global) Jan. 17 -- China's fixed-asset investment (FAI) increased 5.4 percent year on year in 2019, 0.2 percentage points higher than the level recorded in the first 11 months, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
The FAI amounted to 55.15 trillion yuan (8.02 trillion U.S. dollars) last year, according to the NBS.
In December alone, the FAI went up 0.44 percent from November.
Investment in high-tech industries registered an outstanding growth of 17.3 percent year on year in 2019, with the FAI in high-tech manufacturing and service sectors up 17.7 percent and 16.5 percent, respectively.
Private investment grew 4.7 percent to 31.12 trillion yuan last year.
In breakdown, the investment in the primary industry gained 0.6 percent last year, compared with a 0.1 percent decrease in the first 11 months. The investment in the secondary industry went up by 3.2 percent, while the investment in the tertiary industry expanded 6.5 percent in 2019.
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China's Retail Sales up 8 Pct in 2019
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DATE : JAN 17 2020/SOURCE : XINHUA
China's Retail Sales up 8 Pct in 2019
(Yicai Global) Jan. 17 -- China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of consumption growth, rose 8 percent year on year in 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
Sales of the consumer goods totaled some 41.16 trillion yuan (about 5.99 trillion U.S. dollars) last year. In December, the indicator rose 8 percent year on year.
Retail sales in
rural areas rose 9 percent, outpacing the 7.9-percent expansion in urban areas.
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China's Industrial Output Expands 5.7 Pct in 2019
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DATE : JAN 17 2020/SOURCE : XINHUA
China's Industrial Output Expands 5.7 Pct in 2019
(Yicai Global) Jan. 17 -- China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, expanded 5.7 percent year on year in 2019, slowing from 6.2 percent growth in 2018, official data showed Friday.
The growth rate was higher than that in the first 11 months of 2019, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
In December alone, China's industrial output expanded 6.9 percent year on year, up 0.7 percentage points from November.
China's industrial output, officially called industrial value added, is used to measure the activity of designated large enterprises with annual business turnover of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.8 million U.S. dollars).
In a breakdown by ownership, the output of state-holding enterprises climbed 4.8 percent in 2019, that of joint-stock companies went up 6.8 percent, and that of overseas-funded enterprises rose by 2 percent.
The production and supply of electricity, thermal power, gas and water reported a year-on-year increase of 7 percent in 2019, the fastest among the three major sectors, which also include mining and manufacturing.
Manufacturing output rose 6 percent year on year, while mining output edged up 5 percent, the NBS said.
Industrial structure continued to improve last year, with production in high-tech manufacturing industries and strategic emerging industries expanding by 8.8 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively.
Online sales continued to report robust expansion, with a year-on-year increase of 16.5 percent to top 10 trillion yuan in 2019, NBS data showed.
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China's Social Financing Jumped 14% to USD3.7 Trillion in 2019
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DATE : JAN 16 2020/SOURCE : YICAI
China's Social Financing Jumped 14% to USD3.7 Trillion in 2019
(Yicai Global) Jan. 16 -- China's total social financing, a broad gauge of credit and liquidity in the economy, climbed about 14 percent to CNY25.6 trillion (USD3.7 trillion) last year.
That was CNY3.08 trillion more than in 2018.
The increase in December alone was CNY2.1 trillion, money supply data released by the People's Bank of China showed today, topping the average CNY1.6 trillion forecast of chief economists surveyed by Yicai Global.
Total social financing includes off-balance sheet types of financing outside the traditional banking system, including initial public offerings, loans from trust companies and bond sales, according to the website of data compiler Trading Economics.
The government introduced TSF, or non-governmental financing, in 2011 to better measure liquidity rather than just relying on money supply figures. It has helped the leadership supervise fundraising, with the government expanding liquidity in the real economy last year against a backdrop of slowing global growth.
The PBOC will include bonds issued by the national government and general debts from local governments into the calculation of aggregate non-governmental financing from now on, and integrate it with previous local governments' special bonds into the category of governmental bonds, the central bank added.
New yuan loans surged to CNY16.81 trillion last year, including about CNY1.14 trillion in December, the PBOC said. The chief economists surveyed by Yicai Global expected a figure of CNY16.84 trillion for 2019 and CNY1.14 trillion for December. They see new loans rising to CNY18.17 trillion this year.
In recent years, new yuan loans have increased year by year, with the PBOC's annual data showing that new lending amounted to CNY16.2 trillion in 2018, CNY13.5 trillion in 2017 and CNY12.7 trillion in 2016.
The central bank also said that at the end of December, the balance of yuan loans stood at CNY153.11 trillion, a 12.3 percent year-on-year increase, while the balance of broad money M2 stood at CNY198.7 trillion, an annual increase of 8.7 percent.
https://yicaiglobal.com/news/china-social-financing-jumped-14-to-usd37-trillion-in-2019
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