The rapid growth of nonferrous metal production in the first quarter
May 5, 2023
In the first quarter, China's non-ferrous metal production showed a momentum of rapid growth. The industrial added value of non-ferrous metal enterprises increased by 5.8% over the same period last year, 2.8 percentage points faster than that of the national industrial added value of enterprises in the first quarter. According to the new statistics, the output of ten commonly used non-ferrous metals was 18.263 million tons, up 9.0% year on year.
This is the China Nonferrous Metal Industry Association Vice President Chen Xuesen on the 4th quarter of the nonferrous metal industry operation press conference introduced.
Reporters learned that according to the new statistical caliber of ten commonly used non-ferrous metals are copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, nickel, tin, antimony, silicon, magnesium, titanium, compared with the original statistical caliber minus mercury, increased industrial silicon.
Chen Xuesen introduced that the characteristics of non-ferrous metal production in the first quarter of this year include: first, according to the new caliber calculation of ten common non-ferrous metal production increased by 9.0% compared to the same period last year, compared to the original statistical caliber calculation of ten common non-ferrous metal production growth by 1.2 percentage points; Second, according to the original statistical standard, the output of ten commonly used non-ferrous metals increased by 7.8%, 6.9 percentage points higher than that of the first quarter of last year, and 2.9 percentage points higher than that of the whole of last year. Third, the upper, middle and lower reaches of the aluminum industry chain all turned from negative growth in the first quarter of last year to positive growth. Among them, the output of alumina turned from a decline of 3.5% in the first quarter of last year to a growth of 6.3%, the output of primary aluminum turned from a decline of 0.3% in the first quarter of last year to a growth of 5.9%, and the output of aluminum turned from a decline of 0.5% in the first quarter of last year to a growth of 2.9%.
Chen Xuesen also introduced that in the first quarter of this year, the non-ferrous metal industry completed fixed asset investment growth of 11.9%, 1.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year. Among them, non-ferrous metal mining completed fixed asset investment growth is roughly unchanged from the same period last year; The growth rate of fixed asset investment in non-ferrous metal smelting and processing was 1.4 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year.
