Among the purchaser prices of industrial products, the prices of fuel and power increased by 29.4 percent, the prices of chemical raw materials increased by 11.2 percent, that of non-ferrous metal materials and wires increased by 7.6 percent, and that of ferrous metal materials decreased by 3.2 percent.

2. Month-on-Month Changes of Prices of Different Categories

Among the PPI for manufactured goods,the price of means of production decreased by 0.1 percent, affecting the overall level of producer price of industrial products down by about 0.04 percentage point. Among them, the price of mining industry increased by 1.9 percent, the price of raw material industry increased by 0.3 percent, and the price of processing industry decreased by 0.4 percent. The price of consumer goods rose by 0.3 percent, affecting the overall level of producer price of industrial products up by about 0.07 percentage point. Among them, food prices rose by 0.5 percent, clothing and general commodity prices grew by 0.7 and 0.1 percent, durable consumer goods prices dropped by 0.1 percent.

Among the purchaser prices of industrial products, the prices of fuel and power increased by 1.1 percent, the prices of chemical raw materials increased by 0.7 percent; that of ferrous metal materials decreased by 1.1 percent, and that of non-ferrous metal materials dropped by 1.0 percent.