Journalists learned from the analysing meeting on economic operation in the first half of this year held on the afternoon of July 28th that, in the first half of this year, XJ's economy saw stable and rapid growth, and the economic benefit increased by a big margin, the index of industrial economic benefit reached 409.6, an increase of 31.8 year on year, ranking the 2nd place in nationwide only to Heilongjiang.
In the first half of this year, the added value of the scaled industry has accumulated to 85.42 bln Yuan, with a rise of 14.2% year on year; the profit of scaled industry, 43.06 bln Yuan, increasing by 33.9%; the retail turnover of social consumer goods reached 47.4 bln Yuan, up by 21.7% ; the total import and export value, 8.98 bln USD, an increase of 92.1%.