In the first half of the year, the investment in photovoltaic devices and new energy batteries surged by over 100%

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reported on July 26 that this year is the beginning of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. Driven by the vigorous development of strategic emerging industries in various regions, investment in the electronic information industry has grown rapidly, becoming an important force for stimulating industrial development and industrial investment.

In the first half of the year, the investment in projects with more than 5 million yuan in the electronic information industry was 396 billion yuan, which was close to the level of the first three quarters of last year, an increase of 67.6% year-on-year, 26.6 percentage points higher than the same period of last year and 40.7 percentage points higher than the industrial investment during the same period.

However, since the second quarter, investment growth has fallen at a high rate. In June, the growth rate was 37.5%, which was 52 and 31.4 percentage points lower than that in April and May respectively.

In the first half of the year, there were 3,693 new projects in the electronic information industry, which reversed the negative growth in the same period of last year and increased 62.6% year-on-year. Among them, newly-started projects in the fields of electronic components, information and electromechanical and information chemicals have the fastest growth, with growth rates of 67.2%, 82.5% and 154.2%, respectively.

In the first half of the year, the investment in electronic components, devices, and information and machinery and electronics industries were respectively 72.2 billion yuan, 100.9 billion yuan, and 89.9 billion yuan, and the investment in the three fields together accounted for 66% of the entire industry, an increase of 75.3%, 57.7%, and 120.3% respectively. Among them, optoelectronic devices and new energy batteries are the areas with the most investment and the most significant growth, with investment of 63.9 billion yuan and 72.8 billion yuan, respectively, an increase of 100% and 128%, respectively.

In the first half of the year, the entire machine industry was affected by structural adjustments and the growth slowed down. The audiovisual industry was significantly slower, down 9.6% year-on-year; investment growth in the communications equipment industry slowed down by 18.3% year-on-year, which was lower than the industry's 49.3%, including 23.4% in June; the computer industry was driven by hotspots such as tablet computers and one-box computers. The growth was relatively rapid. In the first half of the year, the investment was 32.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 53.5%.