BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — The growth in China’s industrial output, a main measure of economic output, is expected to remain above six percent on a yearly basis for the whole year of 2015, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei said at a press conference on Friday.

Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China’s industrial output grew 6.2 percent from a year ago in the January-September period.

Industrial output, officially called industrial value added, is used to measure the activity of designated large enterprises that have an annual turnover of at least 20 million yuan. (Edited by Ding Lei, dinglei@xinhua.org)