Between 1948 and 1965, output per hour of work rose more than 3 percent each year.
Compared with the same period a year earlier, however, output rose 6 percent in January.
The output of business equipment rose 0.8 percent in December.
For the first nine months, industrial output rose 6.3 percent.
Total economic output rose 1.5 percent at annual rates during the first nine months of 1986.
Output should rise to 36 million barrels by 1994, he added.
From 1946 through 1973, output per worker rose by an average annual rate of 2.7 percent.
Industrial output last month rose to its highest rate in more than a year.
On the other hand, gold output in China has risen by 70% for the past decade.
Output, in effect, rose more slowly than the number of hours worked, making labor less productive.