In the first quarter of this year, the industrial economy of Harbin in China's northernmost Heilongjiang province continued to perform well.
 
Statistics from the Harbin industry and information technology bureau show that the city's manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 7.7 percent year-on-year, while its total industrial output value increased by 13.4 percent year-on-year.
 
The growth rate of the city's industrial added value was 1.2 percentage points higher than the national average, ranking ninth among the country's 15 sub-provincial cities and four places higher than in the same period last year.
 
The industrial added value of the city's four key industries, equipment manufacturing, food, medicine, and petrochemical, increased by 8.6 percent year-on-year.
 
The development of the equipment manufacturing industry is particularly notable, with its added value up 24.6 percent year-on-year.
 
During the same period, 16 of the 18 districts and counties in Harbin achieved positive growth in their industrial added value.
 
The added value of county-level industries increased by 19.5 percent year-on-year, which was 11.8 percentage points higher than the city-wide growth rate.
 
Meanwhile, in the first three months of this year, 28 of the city's 37 major industrial categories achieved growth in industrial added value.
 
Among them, the metal product, machinery and equipment repair industries increased by 73.1 percent year-on-year, the electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industries increased by 63.6 percent, and communications and other electronic equipment manufacturing industries increased by 48.7 percent.