The index of industrial production (IIP) in the first quarter continued to flourish with a year-on-year increase of 7.07 per cent, the General Statistics Office said.
The positive rise, much higher than the 6.44 per cent seen in Q1/2021, contributed 2.42 percentage points to the economy's growth in Q1/2022.
The processing and manufacturing industry had a yearly IIP rise of 7.79 per cent.
Meanwhile, the IIP growth of the electricity production and distribution industry stood at 7.42 per cent, and water supply and waste and wastewater treatment and the mining industry reached 6.54 and 5 per cent, respectively.
Key industries that recorded high increases in Q1 include clothing (up 24.1 per cent); machinery and equipment (16.2 per cent); metal production (10.1 per cent); electronics, computers and optical products (9.4 per cent) and other non-metallic mineral products (8 per cent).
On the contrary, several industries saw a decline in industrial production, such as rubber and plastic products, down 15.5 per cent; repair, maintenance and installation of machinery and equipment (12 per cent); coke and refined petroleum products (11.7 per cent) and crude oil and natural gas (2.2 per cent).
Among industrial products with strong IIP increases were telephone components with 19 per cent, automobiles (13.4 per cent), aluminium (12.6 per cent), and steel (11 per cent).
Some products decreased compared to the previous year, including televisions (23.3 per cent); gasoline and oil (12.5 per cent); aquatic feed (11.7 per cent); mobile phones (9.3 per cent); NPK fertiliser (6.6 per cent) and paint (5.7 per cent).