Hohhot reports Jan-Oct growth in major industries

Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, saw output value totaling 94.62 billion yuan ($13.72 billion) in its six major industries from January to October this year, representing a year-on-year increase of 6.8 percent and accounting for 82.9 percent of the city's total industrial output, according to the city's economy and information technology commission.

The six industries are food processing, electrical energy, petrochemicals, biomedicine, photovoltaic materials, and electronic information.

Among them, during the 10 months, the food processing industry with the dairy industry at its core achieved an output value of 18.79 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.2 percent, accounting for 16.5 percent of the city's total industrial output.

The electrical energy sector achieved 33.29 billion yuan, an increase of 17 percent, accounting for 29.2 percent of the city's total, and the petrochemical sector achieved 21.67 billion yuan, an increase of 0.7 percent, accounting for 19 percent of the city's total.