On May 17, the National Bureau of Statistics released the national economic data for April 2024. In April, the industrial added value above the scale increased by 6.7% year-on-year. On a month-on-month basis, in April, the value added of industries above designated size increased by 0.97% over the previous month. From January to April, the added value of industries above scale increased by 6.3% year on year.
Among them, in April, the national cement output was 173.95 million tons, down by 8.6%; from January to April, the national cement output was 509.28 million tons, down by 10.3% (compared with the same caliber).
In addition, the data show that from January to April 2023, the national cement output was 584.29 million tons, from which China Cement Network calculated that the absolute value of this year was 75.01 million tons less than the same period last year, a decrease of 12.84%.