In the first three quarters of this year, the regional GDP of Maoming stood at 233.21 billion yuan ($34.78 billion), a year-on-year decrease of 1.3 percent.

The added value of the primary industry in Maoming was 49.77 billion yuan, up 5 percent year-on-year. The added value of the city's secondary industry fell by 6.2 percent to 73.08 billion yuan, while that of the tertiary industry reached 110.36 billion yuan, increasing by 0.1 percent year-on-year.

The city's added value of agriculture was 50.66 billion yuan from January to September, increasing by 5 percent year-on-year, which was 0.7 percent higher than the growth rate in the first half of the year.

Its added value of industrial enterprises above designated size saw a year-on-year decline of 12 percent in the first nine months of this year, which narrowed 3.6 percent from that in the first eight months of the year.

An industrial enterprise above designated size refers to one that has an annual operation revenue surpassing 20 million yuan.

People go shopping at a supermarket in Maoming. [Photo by Li Kanghua/WeChat account: maofabu]

Maoming's total retail sales of consumer goods in the first nine months of the year were 98.14 billion yuan, down 8.6 percent, which narrowed 4.2 percent from that in the first half of the year.

The total volume of foreign trade in Maoming was 11.86 billion yuan in the first three quarters of this year, a year-on-year decrease of 18.6 percent, which narrowed 17.1 percent from that in the first half of the year. Exports fell by 21.5 percent to 9.90 billion yuan, while the imports amounted to 1.96 billion yuan, which was flat compared to the total a year ago.

By the end of September, the city's urban registered unemployment rate was 2.49 percent, down 0.17 percent than that in the first half of the year.

The total number of newly registered market entities in Maoming in the first three quarters was 40,200, a year-on-year increase of 11 percent, which was 0.7 percent higher than that in the first half of the year.