CCTV News: China's economy has shown strong vitality recently, manufacturing sales revenue has increased significantly, infrastructure investment has rebounded significantly, and small and medium-sized enterprises have accelerated their transformation and upgrading. In addition, key projects such as ultra-high voltage projects, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Advanced Manufacturing Cluster, and "Silk Road Maritime Transportation" have also made significant progress, and the overall economic operation has shown many highlights.

The sales revenue of enterprises nationwide improved significantly in the fourth quarter of 2024

The latest value-added tax invoice data released by the State Administration of Taxation shows that with the implementation of a package of incremental policies, the sales revenue of enterprises nationwide improved significantly in the fourth quarter of 2024, and the economic operation showed many highlights.

Value-added tax invoice data shows that in the fourth quarter of 2024, my country's manufacturing industry accelerated, with sales revenue increasing by 3.8% year-on-year, an increase of 2.4 percentage points from the third quarter. Among them, the sales revenue of the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 8.3% year-on-year, especially the sales revenue of the manufacturing industry such as railways, ships, aerospace equipment, etc., reached 16.5%.

At the same time, emerging industries are accelerating their development. Sales revenue of high-tech industries increased by 10.6% year-on-year, among which sales revenue of high-tech services and high-tech manufacturing industries both maintained double-digit growth.

In addition, national infrastructure investment rebounded. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the growth rate of sales revenue of civil engineering construction industry increased significantly compared with the third quarter. Especially with the implementation of a package of debt policies, sales revenue in December increased by 7% year-on-year, effectively promoting the construction of key infrastructure projects such as "two levels". Among them, the sales revenue of the construction industry of water conservancy and water transportation engineering increased by 17.7% year-on-year, an increase of 7.6 percentage points from the third quarter; the sales revenue of machinery manufacturing for construction projects increased by 6.3% year-on-year, reflecting the accelerated investment in construction.

In terms of the construction of a unified national market, the national inter-provincial trade sales reflecting trade exchanges in various places increased by 3.3% year-on-year, further increasing from the third quarter.

In 2024, my country's small and medium-sized enterprises accelerated their transformation and upgrading

The China Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Association announced on January 12 that in the fourth quarter of 2024, China's small and medium-sized enterprises' development index was 89.0, an increase of 0.1 point compared with the third quarter.

From the perspective of the whole year, my country's small and medium-sized enterprises were generally stable last year, and the vitality and motivation of enterprises were effectively released. Especially in the fourth quarter, with the coordinated efforts of a series of existing and incremental policies, the confidence of small and medium-sized enterprises has been significantly boosted.

In 2024, small and medium-sized enterprises in my country generally accelerated the pace of transformation and upgrading, and digitalization, intelligence and greening have become the main directions of transformation and development. The industrialization rate of effective invention patents for small and medium-sized enterprises reached 55.1%, an increase of two consecutive years. The average R&D investment of "little giant" enterprises accounts for 7% of their operating income. At present, my country has more than 140,000 specialized, specialized, and innovative SMEs, and more than 600,000 scientific and innovative SMEs.

The power transmission capacity of my country's furthest ultra-high voltage project exceeded 300 billion kilowatt-hours

The reporter learned from the State Grid that the ultra-high voltage project with the largest and most distant transmission capacity in my country - the ultra-high voltage DC transmission project with the largest and most distant transmission capacity in Xinjiang to southern Anhui Anhui, has accumulated more than 300 billion kilowatt-hours by January 12, which is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 130 million households.

Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei has cultivated 7 national advanced manufacturing clusters

The reporter learned from the press conference on the development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industry collaboration and advanced manufacturing clusters that Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei have cultivated 7 national advanced manufacturing clusters, including the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei new generation information technology application innovation cluster, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei intelligent connected new energy vehicle cluster. In the first three quarters of 2024, the industrial added value of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei exceeded 1.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.3% year-on-year.

In 2024, the container throughput of "Silk Road Sea Freight" exceeded 4.96 million TEUs

In 2024, a total of 4,173 ships were launched on 128 "Silk Road Sea Freight" container routes nationwide, completing a container throughput of 4.9656 million TEUs. As my country's first comprehensive international shipping logistics service platform for the "Belt and Road", the "Silk Road Sea Freight" route is favored by foreign trade companies.