The Ningdong Energy and Chemical Engineering Base in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has stepped up industrial upgrading by promoting scientific and technological innovation over the past few years.

In the first quarter of this year, the fixed assets investments at the base totaled 3.4 billion yuan; the gross industrial output value reached 18.71 billion yuan, up by 9.1 percent year on year; the industrial added value amounted to 6.41 billion yuan, up by 10.1 percent year on year.

As the market demands shrank in the first quarter, the output of traditional industries, including coal, power and non-ferrous metal, all declined at the base. On the contrary, the output of new-type coal chemical industry surged with products like coke, carbinol, sulan and Daicel increased by 16.3 percent, 330 percent, 206 percent and 14.5 percent respectively.