The mainland's industrial output continued to grow rapidly last month, propelled by a boom in exports and capital spending and adding pressure on the government to act to cool the economy.
Industrial value-added output rose 17.4 per cent year on year last month, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement posted on its website yesterday.
That pace was slightly down on the 17.6 per cent increase for March, and 18.3 per cent growth in the first quarter, but it topped 17 per cent in year-on-year growth for the fifth successive year.
In the first four months of this year, industrial output rose 18 per cent from the figures in the same period last year.
Industrial production growth had cooled in the final quarter of last year, dipping to a two-year low of 14.7 per cent in October.
Output rose by 16.6 per cent last year, 16.4 per cent in 2005, 16.7 per cent in 2004 and 17 per cent in 2003.