1. Overview

Anshun's GDP in 2012 amounted to 35.3 billion yuan ($5.7 billion), increasing 15.4 percent from the previous year. Agriculture contributed 5.3 billion yuan in added value, up 9 percent. Manufacturing and building industries generated 13.7 billion yuan, up 16.6 percent, including 11.4 billion yuan from manufacturing, up 15.7 percent, and 2.3 billion yuan from the building industry, up 22.2 percent. The service sector contributed 16.2 billion yuan, up 16.5 percent.

2. Agriculture

Gross output value of farming, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery reached 8.2 billion yuan in 2012, growing 12.7 percent year-on-year; of which 4.1 billion yuan was from farming, up 15.3 percent; 219 million yuan from forestry, up 3.9 percent; 3.7 billion yuan from livestock raising, up 10.5 percent; 169 million yuan from fishing, up 15.3 percent; and 54 million yuan from related service industries, up 5.8 percent.

Grain production achieved 651,500 tons, an increase of 22.3 percent from the previous year against the background of 2011's natural disasters. There were 840,300 tons of vegetables, up 10 percent, 73,500 tons of rapeseed, up 25.4 percent and 12,300 tons of cured tobacco, up 23.1 percent.

20,557 hectares of forest were planted in 2012.

Meat production increased 6 percent to reach 138,300 tons. There were 1.2 million slaughtered pigs, up 3.1 percent, along with 107,500 cattle, up 4 percent. There were 556,000 big livestock on hand at the end of 2012, down by 0.8 percent, and 1.2 million pigs, up 4 percent.

Production of aquatic products grew 26.4 percent to reach 10,675 tons.

3. Industries

The added value of industrial enterprises with annual income from main business exceeding 20 million yuan reached up to 8.4 billion yuan, increasing 17.1 percent from 2011.

All major sectors grew more than 20 percent year-on-year, except chemical materials and products, smelting and calendaring of black metal, electric power and heat production and supply. The fastest-growing sectors included smelting and calendaring of non-ferrous metals (increasing 76.8 percent), non-metal minerals processing (increasing 70.1 percent) and alcohol, beverage and refined tea (increasing 34.8 percent).

The output of major industrial products increased. There was a growth of 81.1 percent for cement, 59.1 percent for virgin aluminum, 20.5 percent for synthesised ammonia, 19.7 percent for Chinese patent medicines, 16.3 percent for raw coal and 8.8 percent for generated energy.

Industrial enterprises with annual income from main business exceeding 20 million yuan generated 28 billion yuan in prime operating revenues , up 18.4 percent. The total profit after offsetting losses stood at 1.3 billion yuan, up 60.8 percent. The deficit of unprofitable firms amounted to 517 million yuan, down by 13.5 percent.

Anshun's 23 certified building companies generated an output value of 834 million yuan, increasing 36.4 percent. Projects with total floor area of 1.3 million square meters was under construction in 2012, of which 384,400 sq m were finished. Enterprises' labor productivity (based on output) reached 128,600 yuan per person.

4. Investment in fixed assets

Investment in fixed assets totaled 40 billion yuan, increasing 64.4 percent from 2011, including 21.7 billion yuan from urban areas, up 65.1 percent, and 11.5 billion yuan from the countryside, up 68.6 percent.

Fixed investments above 500,000 yuan totaled 29.8 billion yuan, increasing 80.1 percent, including 18.6 billion yuan in infrastructure, up 109.4 percent, 4.84 billion yuan in renovation and reformation, up 40.9 percent, 6.1 billion yuan in real estate development, up 49.9 percent, and 283 million yuan in other projects, up 73.7 percent.

Agriculture attracted investment of 874 million yuan, up 95.2 percent; manufacturing and building industries 9.8 billion yuan, up 43.3 percent; and the service sector 19.2 billion yuan, up 106.5 percent.

5. Trade and price of commodities

Total retail sales of consumer goods reached 9.8 billion yuan, increasing 16.2 percent from 2011, to which urban areas contributed 7.6 billion yuan, up 16.8 percent, and the countryside contributed 2.1 billion yuan, up 13.9 percent.

Foreign trade value totaled $174 million, growing 16.2 percent, including $10.4 million in import value, up 54.9 percent, and $163.7 million in export value, up 14.3 percent.

Consumer prices increased 2.5 percent. Food prices increased 3 percent, tobacco and alcohol prices rose 3.8 percent, clothes prices grew 13.7 percent, household appliances and maintenance went up 1 percent, the price of medical products and personal items was up 3 percent, while communication prices fell by 1.1 percent, entertainment, education and cultural products and service prices went down 0.7 percent and housing costs dropped 1.4 percent.

6. Traffic and tourism

The tonnage mileage achieved up to 1.88 billion ton-kilometers by road and water in 2012, increasing 63.7 percent, along with 2.57 billion passenger kilometers of passenger turnover, increasing 3.6 percent.

The post and telecommunications sector generated revenues of 1.3 billion yuan, up 35.3 percent. There had been 218,300 fixed telephones by the end of 2012, down 13.4 percent, but 1.4 million mobile phone users, up 9.1 percent, and 132,600 Internet users, up 6.8 percent.

Tourism attracted 22.44 million visitors in 2012, increasing 28 percent from 2011, of which 22.2 million were domestic tourists, an increase of 28.3 percent. The industry generated revenue of 19.5 billion yuan, rising 30 percent, including 19.3 billion yuan from domestic market, growing 30.3 percent.

7. Finance and insurance

General fiscal revenue stood at 5.9 billion yuan in 2012, increasing 33.3 percent year-on-year, and public financial budget revenue reached 3.8 billion yuan, up 41.5 percent. Fiscal expenditure was 16.3 billion yuan, increasing 31.4 percent, and public financial budget expenditure was 13.1 billion yuan, up 30 percent.

All financial institutions had 48.4 billion yuan outstanding RMB deposits by the end of 2012, increasing 12.9 percent from the beginning of the year, of which 24.6 billion yuan were savings deposits, up 19.8 percent. In addition, the outstanding RMB loans amounted to 35 billion yuan, up 30.4 percent.

The revenue from insurance premiums was 603 million yuan, increasing 8.1 percent, while compensation expenses were 261 million yuan, up 20.6 percent.