Data from the Huzhou Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics indicated that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for Huzhou's industrial sector remained flat on a month-on-month basis in December 2025. Influenced by factors such as rising prices for fuel and power products like coal, the Industrial Purchaser Price Index (IPI) increased by 1.8% month-on-month. Year-on-year, the PPI declined by 2.3%, while the IPI fell by 0.9%.
Among the 30 major industrial sectors surveyed, 15 experienced a month-on-month decline in factory-gate prices, 8 saw an increase, and 7 remained unchanged. The chemical fiber manufacturing, beverage and refined tea manufacturing, and furniture manufacturing sectors recorded the most significant price drops, falling by 1.2%, 1.1%, and 1.0% respectively month-on-month; collectively, these three sectors pulled down the overall index by 0.2 percentage points. Conversely, the electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing, paper and paper products manufacturing, and non-metallic mineral products manufacturing sectors led the price gains, rising by 1.1%, 1.1%, and 0.6% respectively month-on-month; together, these three sectors lifted the overall index by 0.2 percentage points.
Purchasing prices for the nine major categories of raw materials showed a pattern of "eight increases and one decrease" month-on-month. The categories with the highest month-on-month increases were fuel and power, non-ferrous metal materials and wires, and chemical raw materials, which rose by 6.1%, 2.1%, and 1.7% respectively, collectively pushing the overall index up by 1.6 percentage points.
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