Non‐agricultural sector decreased by 0.7% due mainly to a 2.7% fall in manufacturing production.
Despite improving external demand, lower domestic demand led to contractions in light industry
and capital and technology industry and a slower growth in raw material industry.
Other sectors,namely mining and quarrying, electricity, gas and water supply, construction, wholesale‐retail trade and repairing, and hotels and restaurants also decreased. Nonetheless, services sector e.g. transport and communication, financial intermediation grew at slower rates while other services
expanded.