In the first quarter of this year, the growth rate of company profits increased 28.3 percent year-on-year, down 3.2 percentage points compared with the first two months.
In the first quarter, government departments pushed forward high-quality growth, deepened supply-side structural reform and carried out positive fiscal policy and stable monetary policy, the statement said. Main macroeconomic figures were in proper range, and reform and opening-up was pushed forward continuously, it said.
In the capital's downtown area, snow and sleet reached their greatest density at the junction of Chaoyang and Tongzhou districts, with snow accumulation of 8 centimeters. Blizzards also hit areas in the northern and central region of China, making it the first widespread storm of 2020.
In the first quarter, China's economy expanded 6.8 percent year on year, unchanged from the previous quarter and staying within the 6.7-6.9 percent range for an 11th straight quarter.
In the coming 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, wind and photovoltaic power across China are to fully achieve power grid parity, or the tipping point at which their generation costs are the same or less as electricity from the power grid, thanks to the country's efforts to reach a greener energy mix, industry experts said.
In the first half, Sichuan led in western China with a GDP of 2.21 trillion yuan (6 billion). The GDP of Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guangxi all exceeded 1 trillion yuan.
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In the first six months, the economy attained 6.8 percent year-on-year growth. From January to July, 8.8 million new jobs have been created nationwide, about 80 percent of the annual target for employment, according to Ning. In July, the unemployment rate was only 5.1 percent, the NBS said.
In the first half of the year, passenger car retail sales went down 23 percent year on year to 7.7 million units, narrowing from the 26 percent decrease for the January-May period, the report showed.
In the future, efforts will be made to include farmland in state-owned forest areas and those in the core areas of nature reserves into the project, Zhou added.
In the face of new situations in Hong Kong, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, has guided the practice of "one country, two systems" from a strategic and overall perspective and attained new breakthroughs, new progress and new achievements in handling Hong Kong affairs, he said.