2023, domestic sand and gravel prices were weak as a whole. By the end of June, the national gravel price index closed at 85.49 points, down 8.37% year on year. The national mechanism sand price index closed at 90.98 points, down 6.72% year on year. Sand and gravel prices showed a downward trend in the first quarter, followed by a rebound in sand and gravel prices in a short period of time, but the decline in sand and gravel prices increased in the second quarter.
Figure 1 and Figure 2: Price Index Trend of Gravel and Machine-made Sand in China (Point)
Data Source: Cement Big Data (https://data.ccement.com/)