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Profits earned by China's major industrial companies fell in 2015, their first annual contraction since the current data gathering standards took effect in 2011, official data showed on Wednesday.
While the latest data again highlighted the pressure on the industrial sector and the whole economy, a painful period is an inescapable part of China's economic transformation and supply-side reforms are expected to help with the process, experts said.
Industrial enterprises with annual revenue of more than 20 million yuan ($3.1 million) from their core operations saw their profits decline by 2.3 percent in 2015 from the previous year, the first annual fall since the data gathering system was revised in 2011, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on its website on Wednesday.
Four factors contributed to the slowdown in industrial profits, He Ping, an official from the Industry Department at the NBS, said in a statement posted on the bureau's website on Wednesday. According to He, subdued global and domestic demand led to a significant deceleration in production and sales activities; sinking producer prices cut into companies' profit margins; and high costs and tight liquidity further exacerbated the pressure on companies' production and operations.
Although the 2015 industrial profit drop reflects the generally gloomy outlook for China's economy, sectors related to industrial restructuring, transformation and upgrading still registered relatively fast growth in 2015. Profits for high-tech manufacturers, equipment manufacturers and consumer goods manufacturers increased by 8.9 percent, 4 percent and 7 percent year-on-year, respectively, He said in the NBS post.
The contrast between the situation in raw material sectors plagued by overcapacity and high-tech sectors shows that the country is sticking to the effort to shift its growth model from an investment-driven one to a consumption-led one, Liu Yuhui, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
After the annual Central Economic Work Conference in December 2015, the central government announced its plan to formulate and deliver supply-side structural reforms, which will focus on better provision of high-quality goods and services and lower costs for businesses.
China used to rely on stimulating the demand side by boosting investment, consumption and exports, but the strategy has been producing diminishing returns in recent years.
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