The city's economic performance showed the following characteristics:
1. Traditional industries backed the economic development, with textiles, stone, jade carvings, and automobiles maintaining double-digit growth.
2. New enterprises added production capacity, with 75 new companies starting and 295 doing upgrades this year.
3. High-tech and rapidly growing industries kept their momentum, with the six fastest growing ones - automobile manufacturing, electronics, equipment manufacturing, food, light industry and building materials -- seeing 12.5-percent year-on-year growth and high-tech industries up 20.7-percent year-on-year.
In addition, the Jan–May period saw steady growth in fixed asset investment, with total investment in the city amounting to 85.9-billion yuan ($13.8 billion), for 18.5-percent growth, putting the city in third place among other Henan cities.
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