CCTV News (News Network): Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's economic and social development has achieved remarkable achievements and attracted worldwide attention. "Digital Decade" will be broadcast today (October 19): my country's economy

CCTV News (News Network): Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's economic and social development has achieved remarkable achievements and attracted worldwide attention. "Digital Decade" will be broadcast today (October 19): my country's economy has achieved a historic leap.

In the past decade, China's total economic output has continued to reach a new level, breaking through the 110 trillion yuan mark in 2021, and its average contribution rate to world economic growth has reached 38.6%, becoming the first driving force for world economic growth. Behind the

number is more qualitative growth.

consumption has become the main driving force for China's economic growth. In 2021, the contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to economic growth was 65.4%, an increase of 10 percentage points from 2012. It has become the world's largest online retail market for nine consecutive years, with a strong domestic demand market with a population of more than 1.4 billion and a middle-income group of about 400 million.

In the past decade, the manufacturing industry has been continuously improving its quality and upgrading, and the proportion of high-tech manufacturing in the industry has increased from 9.4% in 2012 to 15.1% in 2021.

Economic growth is more sustainable. With an average annual energy consumption growth rate of 3%, it supported the annual economic growth rate of 6.6%, and the cumulative energy consumption intensity decreased by 26.4%, which is equivalent to saving and reducing energy from about 1.4 billion tons of standard coal.

has a stable and healthy growth, supporting steady employment. From 2013 to 2021, the number of new urban jobs has remained above 11 million every year. In the past ten years, the urban employment problem of 130 million people has been solved.

Residents' income also grew simultaneously with the economy. The per capita disposable income of residents in the country increased from 16,510 yuan in 2012 to 35,128 yuan in 2021, with an average annual actual growth of 6.6%, which was 30.5 percentage points faster than the per capita GDP of during the same period.

Source: CCTV.com