The Monthly Data Statistics on Wood and Its Products

The Monthly Data on Industry Related Economic Indicators

• From January to July, the forestry fixed asset investment decreased 2.7% year on year.
• From January to July, the fixed assets investment in wood processing and wood/bamboo product industry decreased 24.9% year on year; the business income was RMB 423.02 billion, down 8.5% year on year; the total profit was RMB 16.05 billion, down 11.6% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 26.26 billion, down 9.5% year on year.
• From January to July, the fixed assets investment in the furniture manufacture industry decreased 19.4% year on year; the business income was RMB 335.22 billion, down 13.1% year on year; the total profit was RMB 16.29 billion, down 26.5% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 79.60 billion, down 20.9% year on year.
• In July, the furniture production was 79.228 million pieces, up 8.1% year on year; from January to July, the total production was 462.026 million pieces, down 10.4% year on year.
• From January to July, the fixed assets investment in the paper and paper product industry decreased 16.4% year on year; the business income was RMB 674.15 billion, down 7.9% year on year; the total profit was RMB 33.19 billion, up 5.5% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 28.65 billion, down 13.7% year on year.
• In July, the production of machine-made paper and cardboard was 11.065 million tons, up 4.9% year on year; from January to July, the total production was 68.438 million tons, down 3.3% year on year.
• In July, the newsprint production was 84,000 tons, down 15.2% year on year; from January to July, the total production was 587,000 tons, down 12.3% year on year.
• From January to July, the sales area of the commercial housing was 836.31 million square meters, down 5.8% year on year; the existing home sales area was 108.14 million square meters, down 19.2% year on year and the sales area of the forward delivery housing was 728.18 million square meters, down 3.4% year on year. The sales area of commercial residential buildings was 738.38 million square meters which was 88.29% of the total the commercial housing sales area.
• From January to July, the total investment in real estate was RMB 7532.46 billion, up 3.4% from the same period of last year. The new real estate construction area was 1200.32 million square meters, down 4.5% year on year; the completed area was 332.48 million square meters, down 10.9% year on year.
• From January to July, the commodity retail sales of the furniture, building and decoration materials of the units above designated size reached RMB 79.32 billion and RMB 85.62 billion, down 12.5% and 9.7% respectively year on year.
• In July, China’s large scale building material and home furnishing stores’ sales were RMB 64.851 billion, up 0.52% month on month and down 20.51% year on year. From January to July, the total sales were RMB 340.135 billion, down 37.74% year on year.
• In July, China’s wood and paper pulp producers’ purchase prices increased by 0.3% month on month, down 2.1% year on year; from January to July, the purchase prices decreased by 2.6% year on year. 
• In July, China’s wood processing producers’ factory prices declined by 1.6% year on year; the artificial wood decreased by 1.0% year on year; wooden products decreased by 2.7%; the wooden furniture factory prices increased by 0.7% year on year; the pulp factory prices decreased by 7.8% year on year; paper-making decreased by 4.4% and paper products decreased by 2.1%.