The president of the National Confederation of Industrial Chambers (Concamin), José Abugaber, highlighted that, with figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), the state is the fourth national economy with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that exceeded 1.6 billion pesos in the year 2020.

“It contributes 7.3% of the national GDP and regarding industrial activity, Jalisco shows an annual increase of 6.5% in the accumulated of the first four months of 2022; this growth is derived from the increase in manufacturing activity, which grew 11% in this period”, he detailed.

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The leader said that while nationwide 55.7% of the population is in informality, in Jalisco the rate is 47.3% and in the capital, Guadalajara, 39.4 percent.

For his part, the president of Industriales Jalisco, César Castro Rodríguez, indicated that the entity's sector has 90,000 work centers that generate 660,000 jobs; participates with 40% of the attraction of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and 96% of state exports.

"For all this, the industry is and will continue to be the engine of growth and development in Jalisco," he said.

However, Castro Rodríguez raised the concern of the production sector for "the great challenge that our country faces in terms of security" and urged the three levels of government to coordinate to restore peace, justice and the rule of law in Mexico.

Meanwhile, the Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, stressed that, after historically the economic development of the entity was based on the commercial and services sector, currently, the entity is in a process of economic reconversion where the industry presents its higher growth.

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He specified that the industrial sector contributes a third of the jobs in the state, although after the economic reactivation after the pandemic, Jalisco industries have contributed two out of every three jobs in the entity.

For example, 15 years ago, the Grupo Vida company invested in a production plant in Chile, where it was the third Mexican productive investment, just after Telmex and Bimbo. Ten years ago, the company also installed another plant in Canada, where it was the first Mexican productive investment in that country, where Bimbo settled three years later.

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