The Zhongshan Bureau of Statistics on June 1 released a brief on the city's economic performance from January to April 2026, showing overall stable operation.
Data shows that value-added of industrial enterprises above designated size rose 7.4% year on year in the first four months. Specifically, advanced manufacturing was up 7.5%, while high-tech manufacturing surged 15.7%.
Total retail sales of consumer goods reached 60.512 billion yuan, up 5.7% year on year. Retail sales of communication equipment, grain and oil and food, and automobiles grew by 32.4%, 20.9% and 20.2% year on year, respectively.
The city's consumer price index (CPI) fell 0.9% year on year, with the service price index down 0.4% and the consumer goods price index down 1.4%.