On August 13, the State Council Information Office held a news press conference on strengthening industrial structural adjustment and maintaining industrial steady and fast growth, and Li Yizhong, minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the conference and answered the reporters' questions.

Li said from January to July, the industrial added value at or above the designated size nationwide increased by 7.5% year-on-year, 0.5 percentage point faster than the first half of this year. With respect to regions, from January to July, there are 13 provinces including Jiangsu, Shandong, Liaoning, Tianjin and Chongqing with industrial growth speed surpassing 10% across the country, and in July, the industrial growth speed of all the provinces of China all realized the positive growth.

Among the various major industrial categories, what are directly pulled by investment are the raw material industry and the equipment manufacturing industry. From January to July, the raw material industrial added value rose by 7.8% year-on-year, among which it rose by 13% in July; the cement output increased by 15.9% in the first 7 months, 7.6 percentage points faster year-on-year; the production of steel and nonferrous metals gradually resumed. The equipment manufacturing industry (including vehicles and vessels) presents a trend of fast growth, with the added value growth speed reaching 10.1% in the first 7 month, among which the growth speed reached 15.9% in July.