Municipal Bureau of Statistics recently released economic brief report for the first 8 months of the year, which showed that Zhongshan saw stable economic operation basically. In specific, growth of investment and consumption rebounded slightly, fiscal, finance and electricity consumption grew steadily, growth of industry, import and export fell down, and prices rose modestly.

In industrial production, all 3090 above-scale industrial enterprises achieved 100.2bn yuan added value ,with a growth of 7.1% (on year-on-year basis, the same below).

From January to August, Zhongshan’s fixed assets investment totaled 81bn yuan, with a growth of 10.7%. The tertiary industry investment was 59bn yuan, with a growth of 14.2%.

By the end of August, the deposits balance of local and foreign currency of financial institutions in the whole city was 543bn yuan, increased 7.9% from the beginning of the year. The deposits balance of Zhongshan residents rose 4% to 240bn yuan from the beginning of the year.

Electricity consumption grew Steadily. During January to August period, total electricity consumption was 18bn kilowatt-hour, with an increase of 6.8%.