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Leather industry logs stable growth

China's leather industry registered stable expansion in the first four months of this year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed. The combined operating revenue of major manufacturers of footwear and leather, fur, feather and related products reached 350.69 billion yuan ($52.49 billion), up 7.9 percent year-on-year, according to the ministry. These companies raked in total profits of 16.43 billion yuan in the January-April period, rising 1.6 percent from the same period last year.

Paper-making marks steady output

China's paper-making industry reported steady output growth in the first four months of the year, official data showed. The country's machine-made paper and paperboard output totaled 44.31 million tons from January to April, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The reading was up 0.3 percent from the same period in the previous year, said the ministry. During the period, the operating revenue of major paper-making firms expanded by 2.3 percent year-on-year to 477.01 billion yuan ($71.09 billion), data showed.

Gross ocean product of Jiangsu up

East China's Jiangsu province saw its gross ocean product increase 12.5 percent year-on-year in 2021, the highest growth over the last three years, said the provincial natural resources department. Jiangsu's GOP reached 924.9 billion yuan ($138.7 billion) last year, accounting for 7.9 percent of the provincial gross domestic product and 10.2 percent of the country's total GOP, it said. River and sea ports in the province handed over 630 million tons of cargo in the first quarter of 2022, a year-on-year growth of 6.2 percent, and the container throughput grew 6.3 percent year-on-year to 5.12 million twenty-foot equivalent units in the same period.

Xinhua - China Daily