On May 15th, at the press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council, the National Bureau of statistics issued data on the main indicators of the national economy in April. Data show that in April, the production of the field of steady growth, expanding market demand, the employment situation continues to improve, moderate rising consumer prices, the supply side structural reform, accelerate the transformation of the old and new energy, to further improve the quality and efficiency of economic operation.
State Statistical Bureau spokesman, the Comprehensive Economic Statistics Division Xing Zhihong said that despite the April index has dropped slightly, but the economic operation quality and efficiency, the relationship between supply and demand, the market is expected to have many positive changes, "stability" is the main tone, "into" is the key word "good" is the general trend of the national economy. Is expected to continue to maintain a stable and good posture.
"Stability" of the main tone has not changed
Data show that in April the growth rate of some economic indicators fell month.
"This is mainly affected by this year's" 51 "small holiday in advance, working day reduced by one day." Xing Zhihong said, if the April economic indicators of growth and 1 to February, and last year compared to each month, we can find that the performance of related indicators is not weak. In industry, for example, in April, the above scale industrial added value year-on-year growth rate of 1, to February to accelerate 0.2 percentage points, 0.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year. Since 2015, the monthly growth rate, 6.5% growth rate also belongs to a higher level.
"The same month, the growth rate down, there is no impact on the cumulative growth, steady development trend."." Xing Zhihong said, from 1 to April industrial growth rate of 6.7%, with the first quarter of 6.8% basically flat; social consumer goods retail sales cumulative growth rate of 10.2%, 0.2 percentage points higher than in the first quarter. Thus, in April, a slight drop in some economic indicators was not a trend change, but a small fluctuation within a reasonable range and within the expected range.
Xing Zhihong said that from the economic growth and the price level, employment status, international balance of the four important indicators, China economy continues to stable operation in a reasonable range, the main tone of stability has not changed, to achieve steady economic growth, employment stability, good prices generally stable, the international balance of payments situation is relatively stable.