In this March, the ex-factory price of industrial products rose 5.6% year on year, the purchase prices of materials, fuels and power went up 9.7%, the roughly same rise with this February, and rose 0.9% and 1.3% over last month from the aspect of the chain ratio respectively.

    Among the ex-factory prices of industrial products in this March, the ex-factory price of means of production went up 7.6% over last March, driving the general ex-factory price level of industrial products to rise by about 5.6 percentage points. Especially, the product price of mining industry climbed 26.8%; that of raw materials rose 11.1%; that of processing industry rose 2.7%; that of living materials rose 0.2%, of which, that of foods ascended 1.7%, that of clothes went up 0.6%, that of daily-used articles rose 2.5%, that of durable goods declined 3.2%.

    Analysis by product category was as follows:

    Among the prices of crude oil and oil products, the ex-factory price of crude oil went up 31.8% year on year, forcing the general ex-factory price level of industrial products to rise by about 1.1 percentage point. Those of gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil rose by 17.9%, 13.1% and 23.1% respectively.

    Among the prices of chemical products, the ex-factory prices of polystyrene rose 26.3% over the same month of last year, that of cis-1,4-polybutadiene rubber went up 23.9%, that of terylene filament rose 14.5%, that of urea rose 11.3%, that of ammonium nitrate rose 19.7%, that of 过硫酸氨(per ammonia sulfate) rose 6.3%.

    Among the prices of coal product, the ex-factory prices of coal mining and dressing went up 26.3%, of which, that of raw coal climbed 26.6%.

    Among the prices of steel products, the ex-factory prices of smelting and pressing of ferrous metals rose 6.5% year on year. Especially, that of common large-sized steel products rose 1.4%, that of common small-sized steel products went up 7.4%, that of common medium-sized steel products and bars declined 4.8% and 2.1% respectively, that of medium-thick steel board rose 17.8% and that of thin-thick steel board went up 15.6%.

    Among the prices of non-ferrous metals, the ex-factory prices of non-ferrous metals rose 10.8% year on year, especially, those of copper, aluminium, lead, zinc and tin rose between 3.6% and 14%.

    Among the purchase prices of nine major raw materials, fuels and powers, those of ferrous metals, non ferrous metals, chemical materials and fuel powers went up 10%, 12.7, 12.8% and 15.5% respectively.

    Compared with the same period of last year, the ex-factory price of industrial products went up 5.6%, and the purchase prices of raw materials, fuels and power went up 10.1%.