As of the end of 2011, there were nearly 76000 enterprises above designated size in the mechanical industry, with over 17 million employees. The total assets increased from 1.96 trillion yuan in 2000 to 12.23 trillion yuan, and the total output value increased from 1.4 trillion yuan to 16.89 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of over 25%. In 2011, the industrial added value increased by 15.1% year-on-year, 1.2 percentage points higher than the national average industrial growth rate (13.9%), and accounted for 18.57% of the industry, ranking first among major industries. Realized a profit of 1.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.14%, and a total import and export volume of 631.2 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 22.84%. We have established our position as a major mechanical manufacturing country with a leading global production volume of a batch of major products.

In the first half of this year, the operation of the mechanical industry mainly presented the following eight characteristics:

One is that the growth of production and sales is declining and stabilizing. In the first half of the year, the mechanical industry completed a total industrial output value and sales output value of 8.7 trillion yuan and 8.5 trillion yuan, with year-on-year growth of 12.17% and 11.69%, respectively. On a monthly basis, the growth rate of production and sales at the beginning of the year continued to decline, but the decline has since narrowed month by month. By June, the growth rate of production and sales had basically stabilized. Achieved work in June