My Steel Network News: This week, the average price of five major varieties of steel in the country has been mixed. Among them, the cumulative increase of rebar , wire and hot-rolled plate coils by 7 yuan/ton, 1 yuan/ton and 9 yuan/ton respectively; the cumulative decrease of 3 yuan/ton and 24 yuan/ton respectively.
◎National Energy Administration : From November to August, the national power grid project investment completed 266.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.7%.
◎Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: From January to August, 48,300 old urban communities and 7.99 million households were newly started nationwide, accounting for 94.4% of the annual target tasks based on the number of communities.
◎Statistics Bureau: The total real estate investment in provinces and cities was released from January to August, and the top three are still Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with investments all above 800 billion yuan.
◎Beike Research Institute: The mainstream first-home mortgage interest rate in 103 key cities monitored by Beike in September was 4.15% , and the second-home interest rate was 4.91%, down 17 and 15 basis points from the previous month respectively.
◎Statistics Bureau: China produced 2.426 million cars in August, an increase of 39.0% year-on-year. From January to August, a total of 17.358 million cars were produced, an increase of 6.1% year-on-year.
◎Chualiman Association: From September 1 to 18, the passenger car market retailed 794,000 vehicles, an increase of 10% year-on-year, a decrease of 7% from the same period last month; the wholesale of 911,000 vehicles nationwide, an increase of 29% year-on-year, an increase of 8% from the same period last month.
◎China Internal Association: The total import and export volume of the internal combustion engine industry from 1 to August was US$19.912 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 0.91%. Among them, imports were US$5.88 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 20.65%; exports were US$14.032 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11.01%.
◎8htmlThe average monthly operating rate of construction machinery in January was 63.99% , continuing the growth trend since the second quarter. From January to August, the average monthly operating rate of construction machinery nationwide was 61.45%, which stabilized overall.
◎Statistics Bureau: The national color TV production in August was 18.021 million units, an increase of 16.5% year-on-year; the cumulative output from January to August was 121.741 million units, an increase of 7.2% year-on-year.
◎ General Administration of Customs : China exported 4.49 million refrigerators in August, a year-on-year decrease of 23.3%; cumulative exports from January to August, a year-on-year decrease of 40.43 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 15.9%.
◎Aowei Cloud Network: Among all white goods categories in August, the offline retail sales scale of refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, independent clothes dryers and air conditioners were -11.1%, -0.8%, -17.4%, 27.4% and 17.5% year-on-year respectively.
◎International Ship Network: From September 5 to 18, shipyards around the world received orders for 29+4 new ships; among them, Chinese shipyards received orders for 14 new ships; Korean shipyards received orders for 11+4 new ships; Italian shipyards also received orders for related new ships.
◎Clarkson: In August 2022, 63 new orders were signed worldwide, with a total of 2058965CGT. Compared with the 86 new global ships signed in July 2022, the number decreased by 2309217CGT, and the total tonnage of revised decreased by 10.84% month-on-month.
◎Development and Reform Commission: From January to August, National Development and Reform Commission approved 74 fixed asset investment projects, with a total investment of of 1083 billion yuan.
◎ According to Mysteel incomplete statistics, as of September 20, a total of 5 central construction enterprises have announced the new contract amount in the first eight months of 2022. Overall, the total amount of newly signed contracts of the five construction enterprises in in the first eight months was about 4.18 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.7% year-on-year.
◎Since the regulatory authorities instructed China Bonds to carry out "full unconditional irrevocable joint and several liability guarantee" for the Zhongbo notes issued by real estate companies, 45 real estate companies have issued notes guaranteed by China Bonds to promote the total amount of approximately 6.2 billion yuan.
◎On September 22, National Development Bank has paid the first special loan for "guaranteeing and subsidizing buildings" to Shenyang, Liaoning Province to support Liaoning's "guaranteeing and subsidizing buildings" project.
◎Development and Reform Commission: In the first eight months of 2022, the production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 3.97 million and 3.86 million respectively, with the ownership reaching 10.99 million, accounting for about half of the world.
◎Chualiers Association: According to the September retail target survey, the year-on-year growth of manufacturers accounting for about 80% of the total market reached double-digits. initially estimated that the narrow passenger car retail market in September was around 1.95 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 23.3% , of which new energy retail was around 580,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 73.9%, and the penetration rate of was about 29.7%.
◎ EU executive branch will develop a new energy network digital plan, which will require the EU to invest 565 billion euros (about 556 billion US dollars) in infrastructure by 2030 to develop photovoltaics and new energy vehicles.
◎Relevant personnel in the construction machinery industry chain said that investment in infrastructure and real estate is lower than expected, and the demand for construction machinery is weakening. Currently, the inventory cycle of the mainframes represented by excavators is relatively long. Sales volumes in July and August increased by about single digits month-on-month, but compared with previous years' prosperity, orders were significantly weaker.
◎Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: From 2012 to 2021, the added value of equipment industry increased by 8.2% per year, and it has always maintained medium-to-high-speed growth.
◎On the international maritime route, there are more cargo ships loaded with Australian coal, iron ore, as well as South America, North America and Black Sea grains, which have increased significantly recently. As of September 22, the BDI index was 1,720 points, and the cumulative increase of has reached 78% this month.
◎ China Construction : The total amount of newly signed contracts from January to August was 2.39 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.2% over the same period last year.
◎ Xuhui Group : Announced to complete the second period of medium-term notes bookkeeping and filing work in 2022, with an issuance scale of 1.2 billion yuan. This issuance of medium-term notes provided by China Bond Zengjin Company for full unconditional irrevocable joint and several liability guarantee, and the financing interest rate hits a record low in the open market.
◎ Country Garden: On September 19, S&P adjusted Country Garden's entity credit rating from BB+ to BB. After this adjustment, the company is still one of the developers with the highest credit rating among private enterprises and debt.
◎Chery Automobile: It plans to build a 20GWh lithium-ion battery production base, with a total area of about 1,000 acres, and a planned investment of 10.004 billion yuan, of which 2.429 billion yuan of factory construction and 7.575 billion yuan of process equipment investment.
◎ Midea Group : Signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Vanke Group . According to the strategic cooperation agreement, the two parties will carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in many fields such as smart home, building technology, logistics and warehousing, long-term rental apartments, property management, and EPC construction agency.
◎ Panasonic Electrical Appliances : Starting from October 2022, the shipment prices of about 120 categories such as home appliances and batteries will be increased, with an adjustment range of about 2% to 45%. The adjustment targets include vacuum cleaner and dishwasher.
◎ Komatsu Group: It will sell 4 factories that produce coal mining machinery in China to two local coal mine machinery manufacturers in China.
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