The Monthly Data on Industry Related Economic Indicators

l From January to October, the forestry fixed asset investment decreased 4.7% year on year.
l From January to October, the fixed assets investment in wood processing and wood/bamboo product industry decreased 5.0% year on year; the business income was RMB 686.44 billion, up 1.5% year on year; the total profit was RMB 28.61 billion, down 1.1% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 43.04 billion, down 2.9% year on year.
l From January to October, the fixed assets investment in the furniture manufacture industry increased 2.6% year on year; the business income was RMB 565.86 billion, up 4.5% year on year; the total profit was RMB 34.20 billion, up 17.8% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 137.03 billion, down 1.2% year on year.
l From January to October, the fixed assets investment in the paper and paper product industry decreased 10.1% year on year; the business income was RMB 1087.93 billion, down 3.0% year on year; the total profit was RMB 50.62 billion, down 17.0% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 49.92 billion, up 4.7% year on year.
l In October, the production of machine-made paper and cardboard was 10.714 million tons, up 7.9% year on year; from January to October, the total production was 103.46 million tons, up 3.3% year on year.
l In October, the newsprint production was 86,000 tons, down 23.9% year on year; from January to October, the total production was 920,000 tons, down 22.5% year on year.
l From January to October, the sales area of the commercial housing was 1332.51 million square meters, up 0.1% year on year; the existing home sales area was 190.37 million square meters, down 20.4% year on year and the sales area of the forward delivery housing was 1142.13 million square meters, up 4.6% year on year. The sales area of commercial residential buildings was 1171.33 million square meters which was 87.90% of the total the commercial housing sales area.
l From January to October, the total investment in real estate was RMB 10960.35 billion, up 10.3% from the same period of last year. The new real estate construction area was 1856.34 million square meters, up 10.0% year on year; the completed area was 542.11 million square meters, down 5.5% year on year.
l From January to October, the commodity retail sales of the furniture, building and decoration materials of the units above designated size reached RMB 156.85 billion and RMB 163.04 billion, up 5.4% and 3.4% respectively year on year.
l In October, China’s large scale building material and home furnishing stores’ sales were RMB 103.17 billion, up 5.13% month on month and up 6.33% year on year. From January to October, the total sales were RMB 828.32 billion, up 4.85% year on year.
l In October, China’s wood and paper pulp producers’ purchase prices increased by 0.1% month on month, down 4.4% year on year; from January to October, the purchase prices decreased by 2.4% year on year.  
l In October, China’s wood processing producers’ factory prices raised by 0.1% year on year; the artificial wood increased by 1.3% year on year; wooden products decreased by 1.8%; the wooden furniture factory prices increased by 1.5% year on year; the pulp factory prices decreased by 17.9% year on year; paper-making decreased by 9.5% and paper products decreased by 2.3%.