Output of China\'s light industry grew by 15 percent year-on-year in 2011, 1.1 percentage points faster than the rate for all industries, the country\'s industrial authority said Thursday. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in a statement posted on its website that the proportion of light industry in all industries dropped 0.52 percentage point from a year earlier to 17.33 percent last year. Total sales of light industry surged 28.9 percent year-on-year to 15.5 trillion yuan (2.45 trillion U.S. dollars), the statement said.