Industrial production grew a non-adjusted 18.1% year-on-year. Mining and quarrying output increased 25.7% and manufacturing production rose 19.3%.

Utilities sector output decreased 1.2%. Output rose 2.6% in the water supply and treatment-related industry.

Compared to the previous month, industrial production grew 3.5% in August. On a seasonally and working-day adjusted basis, industrial production rose 15.3% year-on-year and 2.8% from the previous month in August.