Activity in China's vast factory sector expanded at the fastest pace in 27 months in July on stronger demand, a government survey showed, adding to evidence that the economy is regaining momentum after a burst of government stimulus ...
China's apparent oil demand* in June turned directions from May and climbed 2.7% versus the same month a year ago to 41.94 million metric tons (mt) or an average 10.25 million barrels per day (b/d), according to a just-released Platts ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
In June this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 1.1 percent year on year and was down 0.2 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on July 9. Meanwhile, in June ...
China's coal mining and washing industry reported profits falling 43.9% year on year to Yuan 51.26 billion ($8.3 billion) during the first five months of this year, mainly due to sagging coal prices, data from the National Bureau of ...
Tags: Coal Mining, Washing Industry
Platts Australian alumina assessment closed the week at $310.50/mt FOB, decreasing $1.50/mt from Thursday, weighed by sluggish demand, the higher cost of credit in China, and concerns relating to counter-party risk. The assessment was down ...
Tags: Alumina, Qingdao port
In the January-May period this year, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 3.0739 trillion ($0.502 trillion), up 14.7 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 1.7 percentage points compared to the year-on-year ...
Tags: Real Estate
In May this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.8 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on June 13, with this growth rate 0.1 percentage points higher than that ...
Tags: Industrial Output, steel output
In May this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 1.4 percent year on year and was down 0.1 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 9. Meanwhile, in May ...
China's producer price index (PPI) contracted 1.4 percent year on year in May, following a 2-percent decline in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Tuesday. The index edged down 0.1 percent in May from the ...
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.8 percent in May of the current year, up 0.4 percentage points compared to April and constituting the third consecutive month-on-month increase, according to ...
Tags: Manufacturing PMI
Residents in Tangshan are very familiar with the concept of oversupply. A severe glut in the steel industry has put many jobs at risk in the northeastern Chinese city that counts the metal as one of its primary exports. But the oversupply ...
Tags: Housing Market, Crashing Down
In the January-April period of the current year, the aggregate gross profits of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 1.76287 trillion ($0.288 trillion), increasing by 10.0 percent year on year, according to ...
Tags: ferrous metal, processing industry
China produced around 584,000 mt of refined copper in April, down 1.6% month on month, an official from state-owned nonferrous metals information division Beijing Antaike said Wednesday, citing National Bureau of Statistics data. The ...
In April this year, the average aggregate daily crude steel output in China amounted to 2.2947 million mt, up 1.2 percent compared to the average daily figure recorded in March this year and constituting a new record high, as announced by ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Steel Output
In the January-April this year, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 2.2322 trillion ($0.364 trillion), up 16.4 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 0.4 percentage points compared to the year-on-year increase ...
Tags: Real Estate