Cement Net Monthly Report: Macro Investment Growth Continues to Decline, Cement Demand Is Weak (12.1-12.31)

2026-01-22 15:32:42

From January to December 2025, the cement output was 1693.14 million tons, a decrease of 6.9% compared with the same period last year, and the decline was consistent with the previous value.

Recently, the People's Bank of China and the National Bureau of Statistics successively released the financial data and economic data in December 2025. The observation and analysis of the Cement Big Data Research Institute are as follows:

(1) The scale of social financing: In December 2025, the scale of social financing increased by 2.21 trillion yuan. Year-on-year growth of 646.2 billion yuan, social finance stock growth of 8.3% year-on-year, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous value. In December, government bond financing increased by 683.3 billion yuan, an increase of 1.07 trillion yuan less than same period last year. As the progress of government bond issuance was basically completed, the new scale of government bonds was greatly reduced at the end of the year, and the support for the growth of social finance was further weakened. At the same time, RMB loans under the social finance caliber increased by 409 billion 600 million yuan, an increase of 112 billion yuan less than same period last year. From the perspective of credit, loans to residents decreased by 91.6 billion yuan, an increase of 441.6 billion yuan less than same period last year; loans to enterprises and institutions increased by 1.07 trillion yuan, an increase of 580 billion yuan. In December, the corporate sector performed well driven by policy, but the growth rate of social finance weakened again due to the continued weakness of credit in the residential sector and the contraction of government bond financing.

(2) Cement output: The cement output from January to December 2025 was 1,693.14 million tons, representing a year-on-year decrease of 6.9%, and the decrease was consistent with the previous value. In December, when the market entered the off-season at the end of the year, the construction in the north tended to stagnate, while the demand for rush work in the southern market was insufficient, and the cement output continued to decline considerably.

(3) Market outlook: In January, as the traditional off-season, the weak market demand is difficult to change, and the regional differentiation will be further intensified. During this period, some construction sites have rush demand, coupled with enterprises to stabilize the annual price system, the overall market will remain weak and stable, not excluding some regional prices with high inventory pressure. On the whole, it is expected that the price of the whole month will lack upward momentum, and the overall situation will be dominated by weak consolidation, which is ready for the spring market.

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From January to December 2025, the cement output was 1693.14 million tons, a decrease of 6.9% compared with the same period last year, and the decline was consistent with the previous value.

2026-01-22 15:32:42

From January to November 2025, the output of cement was 1548.83 million tons, a decrease of 6.9% compared with the same period last year, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the previous value.

2025-12-19 11:47:46

From January to October 2025, the output of cement was 10000 tons 139985, a decrease of 6.7% compared with the same period last year, an increase of 1.5 percentage points over the previous value.

2025-11-17 14:24:32

From January to September 2025, the cement output was 1,259.36 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 5.2%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over the previous value. According to the full caliber calculation, the output of cement from January to September decreased by about 5.1% year on year.

2025-10-20 16:41:48

From January to August 2025, the cement output was 1,104.57 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 4.8%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points over the previous value. According to the full caliber calculation, the output of cement from January to August decreased by about 4.7% year on year.

2025-09-18 15:24:56

From January to July 2025, the cement output was 958.01 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 4.5%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the previous value. According to the full caliber calculation, the output of cement from January to July decreased by about 4.3% year on year.

2025-08-15 14:47:20

The cement output from January to May 2025 was 659.39 million tons, representing a year-on-year decrease of 4.0% and an increase of 1.2 percentage points over the previous value. According to the full caliber calculation, the output of cement from January to May decreased by about 4.1% year on year.

2025-06-18 16:34:44

From January to March 2024, the cement output was 10,000 tons 33684, a decrease of 11.8% over the same period last year, an increase of 10.2 percentage points over the previous value. According to the full-caliber calculation, the output of cement in January-March decreased by 16.3% year-on-year.

2024-04-16 15:55:59

In January-February 2024, the output of cement was 10,000 tons 18280, a decrease of 1.6% over the same period last year, an increase of 0.9 percentage points over the previous value. According to the full-caliber calculation, the output of cement in January-February decreased by 7.9% year-on-year.

2024-03-18 16:54:15

From January to November 2023, the output of cement was million tons 186735, a decrease of 0.9% compared with the same period last year, and the decline was narrower than the previous value. Among them, the monthly output in November was 189 million 790 thousand tons, an increase of 1.6% over the same period.

2023-12-15 15:14:37

From January to May 2023, the cement output was 771.41 million tons, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.9%. The cement output in May was 196.38 million tons, representing a year-on-year decrease of 0.4%. The weak demand in May was basically in line with market expectations.

2023-06-16 15:24:22

From January to April 2023, the cement output was 584.29 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. In April, the cement output was 193.92 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 1.4% and a month-on-month decrease of 5.8%. The demand in April was significantly weaker than the market expectation.

2023-05-17 16:12:13

Cement output in January-March 2023 was 402.34 million tons, up 4.1% year-on-year, and the growth rate of cement output in January-March was better than expected.

2023-04-20 17:38:06

Cement output in January-February 2023 was 198.55 million tons, down 0.6% from the same period last year, and the decline in cement output in January-February was better than expected.

2023-03-20 15:46:45

The output of cement from January to December in 2022 is 211795 million tons, with a year-on-year decrease of 10.8%, of which the output of cement in December is 16844 million tons, with a year-on-year decrease of 12.3% and a month-on-month decrease of 12.1%. The output of cement in December is lower than expected, which is the lowest output since 2009.

2023-01-18 14:44:50

In order to get rid of the predicament and achieve high-quality development, China's cement industry must abandon the idea of "surface regulation" and focus on the reduction of total capacity, structural optimization and demand boosting, so as to truly solve the problem of imbalance between supply and demand and promote the industry to return to the benign development track.