In December, the concrete market demand weakened, and the national commodity concrete price index showed a downward trend. In December, the domestic epidemic prevention policy was optimized and adjusted, the mobility of personnel and materials was improved, and the restrictions of policy factors on construction were weakened. However, affected by the low temperature weather and the increase of positive cases, the actual downstream construction demand maintained a weakening trend in the off-season, only in the southern part of the country, concrete shipments still declined. At the same time, the price of upstream raw materials such as cement and sand has been declining, and the cost side support is relatively weak.
By the end of December, the National Concrete Price Index (CONCPI) closed at 141.07 points, down 0.93% from the end of November and 10.26% from the same period last year.
Figure 1: Trend and Operation
of National Concrete Price Index in December Data Source: Cement Big Data ( https://data.ccement.com/)