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PPI for means increased 3.8 percent over last January. Of the total, PPIs for mining and quarrying industry, raw materials industry and machining industry correspondingly up by 4.7, 6.7 and 2.2 percent; that for means of consumer goods grew 1.8 percent, of which, price for foodstuff increased 4.8 percent; for cloth and commodities rose 1.4 and 0.8 percent, while that for durable consumer goods dropped 1.3 percent. In terms of different categories: PPI for crude oil grew 4.6 percent, year on year. The prices for oil products, such as gasoline, kerosene and diesel increased 11.1, 13.6 and 14.5 percent respectively. PPI for polystyrene grew 20.3 percent compared with the same month a year ago; that for latex up by 10.9 percent; that for terylene rose by 5.8 percent, year on year. PPI for mining and cleaning industry was up by 2.0 percent from last January, and that for crude coal increased 1.7 percent. PPI for smelting and pressing of ferrous metals grew 4.9 percent from the same month last year. Of which, PPIs for ordinary large rolled-steels, medium rolled-steels, wire rod and heavy steel plate correspondingly increased 2.2, 3.9, 3.9 and 14.4 percent; while that for small rolled-steels had a slight decrease of 1.7 percent, year on year. PPI for smelting and pressing of nonferrous metals gained a year on year rise of 19.9 percent; of the total, the increase of copper, aluminum, lead and nickel were within the range of 9.3 to 61.4 percent. In addition, wherein the purchasing price for raw materials, fuels and power products, the price for fuel and power, nonferrous metal materials and chemical materials increased 4.6, 27.4, and 4.4 percent respectively; while PPI for ferrous metals gained a slight increase of 0.4 percent, year on year. |
