Industrial production in China for the first time in 4 months plus Corona infection spread “Repressed” May 15 13:34

China's major economic statistics were released last month, and the Chinese government is actively promoting the resumption of economic activities as "basically suppressing the spread of the new coronavirus infection." It turned positive for the first time in four months since the month.

The National Bureau of Statistics of China released the main statistics of last month on the 15th.

It shows that industrial production has increased 3.9% compared to the same month last year.

Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, China's industrial production fell sharply by 13.5% and over 10% from January to February compared to the same period last year.

However, as the Chinese government has “basically suppressed the spread of infection in the country” and actively encouraged companies to resume production, last month turned positive for the first time in four months since last December.

On the other hand, the retail industry, which shows the trend of consumption, had sales of RMB2,817.8 billion, and the Japanese yen was more than 42 trillion yen, down 7.5% from the same month last year.

Although the negative range improved by 8.3 points from the previous month, it has been negative since January.

Looking at the breakdown, while automobile sales remained at the same level as the previous year, the food and beverage industry was still below 30%.

It seems that consumers are deeply concerned about infections and that there is a continuing tendency to refrain from eating out.Therefore, how to improve consumer sentiment for the future economic recovery is an issue. It is likely to become.

Statistics Bureau spokesman "Not yet normal"

Liu Aihua, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics of China, said in a press conference, "While we have achieved great results in controlling the spread of infection in Japan, we cannot say that the economy has yet to recover to a normal level." , Showed a severe view of the current economic situation.

In addition, he said, "We must promptly implement policies and respond to changes in the situation, and proceed with a full-scale economic recovery," showing the recognition that additional measures will be necessary for the recovery of the economy in the future. It was.