China's industrial profits up 19.1% in Aug. thanks to virus control and policy support

  • By CGTN
  • Sept. 27, 2020
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Profits of China's major industrial companies climbed 19.1 percent year on year to 612.8 billion yuan (about 90 billion U.S. dollars) in August, narrowing 0.5 percentage points from July and showing a steady recovery of business activities, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The production and operation of enterprises has improved, and the supply and demand have gradually returned to normal as achievement has been made in coronavirus prevention and control, and good results have seen in the country's recent policy to stabilize the economy, said NBS senior statistician Zhu Hong.

A slew of tax cuts and fee reductions and other policies are effective, so the costs for enterprises continued to decline, and their profitability has improved, said Zhu. In August, the loss of enterprises in the red dropped 37 percent year on year.

In the first eight months of the year, the profits of major industrial firms declined 4.4 percent to 3.72 trillion yuan, narrowing 3.7 percentage points from the January-July period.

Profits of state-controlled industrial companies fell 17 percent from one year earlier to 950.9 billion yuan, while those of private ones dropped 3.3 percent year on year to 1.07 trillion yuan.

Profits of the mining industry plunged 38.1 percent during the January-August period, and that of the manufacturing industry fell 1 percent, said the NBS.

Major industrial companies refer to those with an annual business turnover of at least 20 million yuan.