The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region reported a GDP of 1.64 trillion yuan ($246.39 billion) for the first three quarters of the year, an increase of 4.2 percent year-on-year, its Bureau of Statistics reported.
The value added for primary industries was 209.18 billion yuan, up by 4.5 percent. Secondary industry GDP rose by 627.66 billion yuan, also up 4.5 percent, while tertiary industries rose 806.22 billion yuan, up 3.9 percent.
Across Xinjiang, industrial enterprises with annual revenues of 20 million yuan or more saw an 8.0 percent year-on-year increase in value added, 2.7 percentage points above the national average. The mining and manufacturing sector grew by 5.3 percent, while the electricity, heat, gas and water supply sector rose by 17.6 percent.
The value added in State-holding enterprises increased 8.6 percent year-on-year, and private enterprises rose 1.4 percent.
Energy supply has been robustly guaranteed, with the value added for petroleum and chemical industries above designated size growing respectively by 4.3 percent and 9.3 percent year-on-year. The nonferrous metals industry rose by 9.6 percent, the power industry rose 18.8 percent and the coal industry was up 3.4 percent.
Fixed asset investment — excluding rural households — fell by 8.8 percent year-on-year, although the decline narrowed by 2.5 percentage points from the first half of the year.
Infrastructure investment rose 1.5 percent, making up 24 percent of Xinjiang's total investment, while manufacturing investment grew 6.4 percent, accounting for 33.1 percent of the region's industrial investment. High-tech service investment accelerated, growing by 10 percent year-on-year.
New investments in computing power and next-generation communications networks are driving rapid growth. Investment in information transmission, computer services and software grew by 19.4 percent, with information transmission more than doubling and internet-related services growing by 27.9 percent.
Clean energy generation from hydropower, wind and solar by industrial enterprises above designated size reached 176.2 billion kWh, up 27.3 percent year-on-year, accounting for 38.2 percent of total power generation by industrial enterprises above designated size. Wind and solar power generation were both up — wind by 37 percent and solar by 36.6 percent.
Wei Hong, deputy director of the bureau, said at a news conference in Urumqi on Monday that Xinjiang's economy maintained steady and positive momentum in the first three quarters, with positive changes in major indicators and progress in high-quality development.
She called for more efforts to boost demand and consolidate the region's foundation for sustained economic improvement.
