China News Service, July 16, according to the National Bureau of Statistics website, in the second quarter of 2020, the national industrial capacity utilization rate was 74.4%, a decrease of 2.0 percentage points from the same period of the previous year and an increase of 7.1 percentage points from the first quarter. In the first half of the year, the national industrial capacity utilization rate was 71.1%, a decrease of 5.1 percentage points from the same period last year.
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In terms of three categories, in the second quarter, the capacity utilization rate of the mining industry was 72.1%, a decrease of 2.5 percentage points from the same period of the previous year and an increase of 5.0 percentage points from the first quarter; the capacity utilization rate of the manufacturing industry was 74.8%, a decrease of 2.1 from the same period last year Percentage point, an increase of 7.6 percentage points from the first quarter; the capacity utilization rate of the electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply industry was 70.6%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the same period of the previous year and an increase of 2.8 percentage points from the first quarter.
In terms of major industries, in the second quarter, the coal mining and washing industry capacity utilization rate was 69.6%, the food manufacturing industry was 70.4%, the textile industry was 72.7%, the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry was 74.2%, and the non-metallic mineral products industry 68.2%, ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry 78.4%, non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry 79.2%, general equipment manufacturing industry 77.3%, special equipment manufacturing industry 77.6%, automobile manufacturing industry 74.6%, electrical Machinery and equipment manufacturing was 78.1%, and computer, communications and other electronic equipment manufacturing was 78.4%.