Ministry: Industry sees best growth in three years

Sector's output increases by 6.9 percent in the first half of 2017

China's industrial economy has maintained a momentum of steady and sound growth in the first half of the year as industrial output increased 6.9 percent on a year-on-year basis, the best performance in the past three years.

The growth rate is 0.9 percentage points higher than that in the same period last year, and the performance of enterprises continued to improve, with the main business income and profits growing by 13.5 percent and 22.7 percent in the first five months, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Tuesday.