Huai’an’s economy has maintained steady performance this year, with key sectors showing positive momentum.
The agricultural sector demonstrated solid performance, with steady growth in animal husbandry. In the first three quarters, the city’s total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries reached RMB 43.88 billion, up 4.9% year-on-year at comparable prices. The number of pigs slaughtered was 2.147 million, up 8.1% year-on-year. The output of pork, beef, mutton, and poultry meat reached 280,000 tons, up 9.8%; raw milk output was 77,000 tons, up 19.2%; aquatic product output amounted to 268,900 tons, a 1.8% increase.
Industrial production maintained steady growth, driven by robust support from key sectors. In the first three quarters, the total output value of the city’s industrial output above the designated size increased by 8.6% year-on-year. The cumulative output of five key sectors—the comprehensive utilization of waste resources, non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing, general equipment manufacturing, computer/communication/electronic equipment manufacturing, and electrical machinery/equipment manufacturing—grew by 43.2%, 14.6%, 23.4%, 15.5%, and 20.2%, respectively. These sectors collectively contributed an increase of RMB 19.81 billion, boosting the city’s cumulative output growth rate by 6.3 percentage points.
Effective investment experienced a moderate slowdown, yet project development efforts remained robust. In the first three quarters, the city’s fixed asset investment declined by 3.8% year-on-year, a slowdown of 14.5 percentage points compared to the same period last year. Notably, project investment grew 16.4% year-on-year, with industrial investment up 8.5% year-on-year, though down 15.8 percentage points from the same period last year. In the first three quarters, the city’s 399 major municipal-level industrial projects completed RMB 144.735 billion in investment, achieving 91.39% of the annual target, 16.39 percentage points ahead of schedule. 78 carry-over projects have achieved an investment of RMB 60.089 billion, fulfilling 89.62% of the annual plan. Additionally, 321 new projects have secured an investment of RMB 84.646 billion, accounting for 92.68% of the annual plan.