Home | China | World | Business Steady Growth of China's Industrial, Agricultural Production THU, FEB 28, 2002     China's total output of grain for the year of 2001 was 452.62 million tons, down by 2.1 percent from the previous year, according to China's top statistics official. Zhu Zhixin, commissioner of National Bureau of Statistics, told a press conference here Thursday that output decline was mainly due to the adjustment of sown areas and severe drought in some areas. He said that fluctuations were seen in the output of cash crops.The output of cotton was 5.32 million tons, up 20.4 percent; that of sugar crops was 87.9 million tons, up 15.1 percent. The output of oil-bearing crops was 28.72 million tons, down 2.8 percent; that of meat was 63.4 million tons, up 3.5 percent; while that of aquatic products was 43.75 million tons, up 2.3 percent. At the same time, the added value of State-owned and State-holding industrial enterprises and those non-State-owned industrial enterprises with an annual sales income of over five million yuan was 2,695 billion yuan, up 9.9 percent, he said. Editor:Zhong Source:Xinhua Recommend to your friend email:    China Central Television,All Rights Reserved