On July 15, the National Bureau of Statistics released the national economic data for the first half of the year. According to preliminary accounting, the gross domestic product for the first half of the year was 61,683.6 billion yuan, an increase of 5.0% over the same period last year at constant prices. In June, the added value of industries above scale increased by 5.3% year-on-year (the growth rate of added value is the real growth rate after deducting price factors). On a month-on-month basis, in June, the industrial added value above the scale increased by 0.42% over the previous month. From January to June, the added value of industries above scale increased by 6.0% year-on-year.
The cement output in June this year was 16397 million tons, down 10.7% from the same period last year; the cement output in the first half of the year was 850.47 million tons, down 10.0% from the same period last year.
In addition, the data show that in the first half of 2023, the national cement output was 95300 10000 tons, from which China Cement Network calculated that the absolute value of cement output in the first half of this year was 10.253 million tons less than that in the same period last year, a decre ase of 10.76%.
