Modern Industies

In 2005, the first Benz car made in Beijing rolled off the production line. The debut of the world-famous car brand in the Chinese automobile market opened a curtain revealing Beijing's modern industrial growth.

In 2005, Beijing manufactured 586,000 automobiles, an increase of 8.8 percent more than in 2004, including 221,000 cars, an increase of 47.1 percent.

During the Tenth Five-year Plan, Beijing manufactured 1.8 million automobiles, an annual increase of 36.1 percent. Beijing realized 178.24 billion yuan (US$22.28 billion) of industrial added value, an increase of 12.8 percent more than in 2004. The city's annual industrial added value increased at a rate of 12.4 percent, 2.5 percentage points higher than during the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

 

New- and high-tech industries realized added values of 51.75 billion yuan (US$6.47 billion), an increase of 20 percent more than in 2004, if calculated at current prices. Of these, the electronics and information industries increased by 22 percent; the biomedicine industry increased by 10.1 percent;  the new-materials industry increased by 13.2 percent, and the optical-mechanical-electrical integration industry increased 18.4 percent. They accounted for 70.4 percent, 6.8 percent, 8.7 percent and 10.7 percent of industrial added value of all the new- and high-tech industries.

The output of high-tech products such as programme-controlled switchboards, mobile phones and minicomputers increased by 12.4 percent, 35.1 percent and 23.4 percent over that of 2004. The added value for high-tech industries accounted for 29 percent of the city's industry, and accounted for 7.6 percent of regional gross production values.