On April 18, the National Bureau of Statistics released economic data for January-March 2023. In the first quarter, the added value of industries above the national scale increased by 3.0% year-on-year, 0.3 percentage points faster than that in the fourth quarter of last year. From January to March
2023, the output of flat glass in China was 232.6 million heavy boxes, down 8% year-on-year; the output of flat glass in March was 80.14 million heavy boxes, down 7.9% year-on-year.