OREANDA-NEWS. December 27, 2012. Anhui province saw the highest growth rate in major economic indicators during the Jan-Sept period among six provinces in the central China region, the provincial government announced at a development and reform meeting on Wednesday.

The province's economy continued to grow over the first three quarters of this year, with a year-on-year rise of 12 percent in the gross domestic product (GDP), 18.2 percent in per capita cash income for rural residents, 15.8 percent in retail sales of consumer goods, 16.2 percent in industrial value-added output and 62.3 percent in exports.

Those figures enabled Anhui to come first in the central China region, which consists of Henan, Shanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces.

From January to November, fixed-asset investment, consumption and export, together known as the troika for economic growth, rose 24.5 percent, 18.8 percent and 62.3 percent from a year earlier, respectively, compared with the national averages of 20.7 percent, 14.5 percent and 7.3 percent.

Meanwhile, the province's industrial structure was optimized, with an increase of 17.8 percent and 31.8 percent in the value-added output of the equipment manufacturing industry and in the total output of strategic emerging industries, respectively. The figures were 1.6 and 15 percentage points higher than the entire sector.

The first three quarters also saw per capita disposable income for urban residents and per capita cash income for rural residents up 13.2 percent and 18.2 percent year-on-year, respectively.