The Monthly Data on Industry Related Economic Indicators

l From January to March, the forestry fixed asset investment decreased 4.4% year on year.
l From January to March, the fixed assets investment in wood processing and wood/bamboo product industry decreased 35.6% year on year; the business income was RMB 145.04 billion, down 20.2% year on year; the total profit was RMB 5.13 billion, down 26.4% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 9.48 billion, down 14.0% year on year.
l From January to March, the fixed assets investment in the furniture manufacture industry decreased 29.4% year on year; the business income was RMB 117.69 billion, down 23.7% year on year; the total profit was RMB 4.01 billion, down 47.8% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 29.12 billion, down 30.4% year on year.
l From January to March, the fixed assets investment in the paper and paper product industry decreased 20.5% year on year; the business income was RMB 246.73 billion, down 20.3% year on year; the total profit was RMB 11.55 billion, down 5.5% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 12.51 billion, down 7.3% year on year.
l In March, the production of machine-made paper and cardboard was 10.456 million tons, down 2.1% year on year; from January to March, the total production was 24.597 million tons, down 12.4% year on year.
l In March, the newsprint production was 102,000 tons, down 9.7% year on year; from January to March, the total production was 243,000 tons, down 18.7% year on year.
l From January to March, the sales area of the commercial housing was 219.78 million square meters, down 26.3% year on year; the existing home sales area was 30.883 million square meters, down 34.2% year on year and the sales area of the forward delivery housing was 188.9 million square meters, down 24.8% year on year. The sales area of commercial residential buildings was 192.35 million square meters which was 87.52% of the total the commercial housing sales area.
l From January to March, the total investment in real estate was RMB 2196.26 billion, down 7.7% from the same period of last year. The new real estate construction area was 282.03 million square meters, down 27.2% year on year; the completed area was 155.57 million square meters, down 15.8% year on year.
l From January to March, the commodity retail sales of the furniture, building and decoration materials of the units above designated size reached RMB 24.76 billion and RMB 27.80 billion, down 29.3% and 23.9% respectively year on year.
l In March, China’s large scale building material and home furnishing stores’ sales were RMB 32.85 billion, up 8438.72% month on month and down 63.84% year on year. From January to March, the total sales were RMB 93.46 billion, down 53.45% year on year.
l In March, China’s wood and paper pulp producers’ purchase prices increased by 0.5% month on month, down 2.0% year on year; from January to March, the purchase prices decreased by 2.5% year on year.  
l In March, China’s wood processing producers’ factory prices raised by 0.2% year on year; the artificial wood increased by 0.4% year on year; wooden products decreased by 2.1%; the wooden furniture factory prices increased by 0.9% year on year; the pulp factory prices decreased by 15.3% year on year; paper-making decreased by 2.9% and paper products decreased by 1.1%.