In this February, the ex-factory price of industrial products rose 3% over last February. The purchase price of materials, fuels and power went up 6.8%.

    Among the ex-factory prices of industrial products, the ex-factory price of means of production went up 4.2% over last February. Specifically speaking, the price of mining and quarrying climbed 25.2%, that of raw materials rose 6.4%, that of processing industry rose 0.1%. The ex-factory price of living materials went down 0.4% over last month, of which, the price of foods went down 1%, that of clothes went up 1.7%, that of daily-used articles went up 0.7%, that of durable consumer goods went down 2.4%.

    Analysis by product is as follows:

    The ex-factory price of crude oil went up 43.1% over last February, forcing the ex-factory price of industrial products up by 1.3 percentage points. The ex-factory of gasoline rose 25.9%, that of kerosene went up 24.5%, that of diesel oil went up 23.7%.

    Among the prices of chemical industrial products, the price of polystyrene went up 1.9% over last February, that of cis-1,4-polybutadiene rubber went down 4.1%, that of terylene filament went down 3.3%.

    The ex-factory price of coal mining and dressing surged up 9.3% over last February, of which, that of raw coal was up 8.8%, went down 3.6% over last February.

    The ex-factory price of smelting and pressing of ferrous metals went down 7.6% over last February, of which, that of ordinary large-sized steel product went down 5.6%, that of ordinary medium-sized steel metals went down 10.7%, that of ordinary small-sized steel product went down 5.1%, that of line-shaped steel product went down 9.7%, that of medium-thick steel board went down 18%.

    The smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals went up 15.3% over last February, of which, the ex-factory prices of copper, aluminium, lead and zinc went up between 8.5% and 33.7.

    Besides, among the purchase prices of materials and fuels for power, that of fuels for power, non-ferrous metals and chemical industrial materials rose 17.8%, 19.2% and 0.8%, that of ferrous metals went down 1.1%.

    Compared with the same period of last year, the ex-factory price of industrial products in the first tow months went up 3%, and the purchase price of materials, fuels and power went up 6.6%.