CCTV News (News Network): A series of leading indicators released by the National Information Center show that domestic demand for investment and consumption has expanded, foreign trade exports have grown steadily, and my country's economy has shown a positive trend of continuous recovery.
In the first two months of this year, the national excavator index, which reflects the popularity of the infrastructure field, increased by 2.91% year-on-year, indicating that the pace of infrastructure construction in the fields of farmland water conservancy, forestry, transportation, municipal engineering, etc. is accelerating. Data from the National Information Center shows that the amount of winning contracts that reflect the popularity of project investment increased by 9.2% year-on-year, and the infrastructure investment field showed a positive trend of sufficient funding guarantee and accelerated project implementation.
Not only investment continues to grow, consumption has also continued to rise since the beginning of this year. Data from the National Information Center shows that from January to February, the online service consumption popularity index increased by 20.1% year-on-year, and the offline consumption popularity index increased by 13.6% year-on-year, an increase of 7.2 percentage points from December last year. From the perspective of foreign trade, the average daily container throughput of major ports increased by 12% year-on-year in the first two months of this year.
