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The total added value of six strategic supporting industries–oil and alkali chemical industry, equipment manufacturing industry, metallurgical industry, textile and garment industry, food processing industry and electrical energy industry–was 65.88 billion yuan with an increase of 15.7 percent from the previous year. The total added value of the three new strategic emerging industries–new energy, photoelectricity and new material–grew 5.22 billion yuan, an increase of 27.8 percent. The high-tech industry reached 7.44 billion yuan of added value, rising 25.5 percent, and accounted for 8.7 percent of the added value of industries above a designated scale.

In terms of the output of major industrial products, natural oil was up by 0.5 percent year-on-year; livestock meat product increased by 52.4 percent; wheat powder grew by 14.8 percent; yarn increased by 18.3 percent; Chinese patent medicine grew by 40.9 percent; clothing increased by 33.8 percent; sodium carbonate increased by 14.7 percent; cement went up by 23 percent and artificial diamonds went up by 28.1 percent.

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The main business income of industrial enterprises above a designated size in 2013 was 285.07 billion yuan, increasing 16.3 percent year-on-year. Its total profit was 18.9 billion yuan with an increase of 18.4 percent.