In March 2016, the industrial added value above the scale increased by 6.8% in real terms (the growth of the following added value is the real growth rate excluding price factors), 1.4 percentage points faster than that in January and February. On a month-on-month basis, industrial added value above the scale rose 0.64% in March from the previous month. In the first quarter, industrial added value above the scale rose 5.8 per cent from a year earlier.