In 2022, the world is at the turning point of station history. This is a year when all organizations around the world face an unprecedented choice, and this critical choice at this turning point in history will greatly determine the future development of the organization. Or decline, or prosperity! When the smoke of history dissipates, we will discover the changed world pattern. We are thankful that we live in a great country. This year, despite the extremely difficult year, the Chinese still carried the weight forward, and accumulated sufficient momentum for the final "Everest" summit, opening a new round of magnificent development process.
This year, China's economy went against the wind and achieved a magnificent historic breakthrough, with GDP exceeding the 120 trillion mark reaching 121 trillion, an increase of 3% over the previous year, ranking the world's second largest economy and continuing to be an important source of global economic growth.
In this year, Guangdong, which was at the forefront of reform and opening up, continued to maintain its resilience in development, and Guangdong became the first provincial-level unit in China to cross the threshold of 12 trillion GDP, surpassing Canada in North America, South Korea in Asia, Italy and Russia in Europe, and became a province with real wealth and rivals.
In this year, China's automobile industry showed its strong explosive power to the world, and China's annual automobile exports reached 3.11 million units, a year-on-year increase of 54.4%, successfully surpassing Germany to become the world's second largest automobile exporter. According to the current development trend, China's automobile exports are just around the corner to surpass Japan, and it is expected that China will become the world's largest automobile exporter in 2023, truly ushering in the Chinese era of the automobile industry.
In this year, BYD accelerated its lane change and overtaking, realizing a gorgeous turnaround from fuel vehicles to new energy vehicles, and its total sales of new energy vehicles reached 1.8635 million units, a year-on-year increase of 208.64%; Tesla sold 1.31 million units during the same period, up 40% year-on-year. BYD has achieved a comprehensive surpass over Tesla and has been promoted to the world's largest new energy vehicle company. BYD's success has broken the myth that European, American and Japanese car brands cannot be shaken, and once again proved to the world that what Westerners can do, Chinese can do, and do better!
This year, under the circumstances of facing a series of challenges, China's steel output still reached 1.01 billion tons, reaching a scale of 1 billion for three consecutive years, continuing to occupy half of the world's steel, and 10 times the crude steel output of the United States. It is with the solid foundation of huge crude steel production that China has achieved a historic surpass over the West in the field of high-end steel, and has provided strong support for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.
This year, China's shipbuilding has shown strong competitiveness to the world, and more and more international shipowners have set their sights on China. The number of completions, new orders received and handheld orders of Chinese shipyards accounted for 47.3%, 55.2% and 49% of the global total in terms of deadweight tonnage, respectively, and their international market share remained the first in the world. Among them, 6 Chinese enterprises have entered the top ten in the world in terms of shipbuilding completion, new orders and handheld orders. The rise of China's shipbuilding industry has ended the era of hegemony between Japan and South Korea, and will continue to write the magic of China's shipbuilding industry.
In this year, China Eastern Airlines, the world's first user of the domestic large aircraft C919, officially received the first C919 aircraft, marking the "first step" of domestic large aircraft in market operation, and also marking the first time that China's civil aviation transportation market has a jet trunk aircraft independently developed by China. Domestic large aircraft C919 has more than 1,000 orders worldwide, reaching 1,200 orders, more than the combined number of global airlines Boeing and Airbus. Global large aircraft manufacturing has officially entered the era of "three countries". There is a way that thirty years to the east of the river and thirty years to the west of the river. For China's large aircraft program, perhaps a decade is enough to change the landscape of the global aviation market.
In this year, China continued to make great progress on the track of new energy, the installed capacity of wind power photovoltaic power generation in the country exceeded 700 million kilowatts, and the installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic power generation ranked first in the world; In 2022, the new installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic accounted for 78% of the new installed capacity in the country, and the new wind power photovoltaic power generation accounted for 55% of the new power generation in the country. A huge energy revolution is slowly unfolding on the land of China. In the new round of energy revolution, China already has the power to lead the future and change the world.
This year, there are many, many more. China is still moving forward, science and technology are still progressing, the economy is still developing, and the structure is still adjusting. China's ultra-large economy not only has a "quantitative" shock, but also a "qualitative" breakthrough and a structural "big" adjustment. Maybe some industries have declined, but a large number of industries that better represent the future are growing, maybe some companies have collapsed, but a large number of more viable enterprises are being born, maybe some markets are shrinking, but a more promising market is being generated.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, birth, old age, illness and death, this is the law of nature, and it is also the law of survival of the market economy. The entire economy and society have achieved spiraling progress and growth in this cycle. Great businesses are winter kids! Great enterprises will be reborn from the ashes!
The fierce fire of war is still burning in the distance, and the smog of the epidemic is about to dissipate. After the experience of 2022, in 2023, China's economy will be another spring blossoming scene! Chinese companies are another wonderful one!