On a month-to-month basis, industrial production in November edged up slightly by 0.76 percent from the previous month, the National Bureau of Statistics said. For the first 11 months of this year, the industrial value-added output climbed 9.7 percent from a year earlier. China uses industrial added value to measure business activities of designated large enterprises each with an annual turnover of at least 20 million yuan (3.27 million U.S. dollars). It is an important indicator to weigh China's industrial activities and the country's manufacturing-based economy. China's retail sales growth to top 13 pct BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's retail sales of consumer goods will grow by more than 13 percent year on year for 2013, an official said Monday. The growth will be in a range of relatively fast expansion as seen in the past decade, Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng told Xinhua.