The financial crisis and rising raw material prices are the main reasons for the increase in PPI

March 10, 2009, according to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics website released the latest news, February, factory prices of industrial products (PPI) fell 4.5% year-on-year, raw materials, fuel, power purchase price down 7.1%.　　Sino-New Society issued Tai Photo Copyright statement: Where the note has "Cnsphoto" the words of the picture copyright are China News Network, without written authorization, may not be reproduced use.　　Xinhua Beijing, June 10 The website of the National Bureau of Statistics on the May PPI changes to read the article said, the international financial crisis, raw materials and other price increases are the main reason for the decline in industrial prices continue to expand. May, by the main factory price of industrial products fell influence, the national factory price of industrial products decline continued to expand.　　Compared with the same month last year, the factory price of industrial products fell 7.2%, raw materials, fuel, power purchase prices fell 10.4%, the decline was 0.6 and 0.8% respectively in April. From the composition look, production and means of subsistence prices continue to decline. May, the production cost of goods factory prices fell 8.8% from the same month last year, the decline was 0.7% larger than April, affecting the total factory price of industrial products down about 6.7%. The factory prices of extractive industries, raw materials and processing industries fell by 21.8%, 10.9% and 6.2% respectively in the same month last year, with a decline of 0.3, 0.6 and 0.8% respectively in April 2009. The cost of subsistence factory prices fell by 1.9% in the same month last year, affecting the factory price of industrial products fell about 0.5%.　　Among them, food prices fell 2.8%, clothing prices dropped slightly 0.2%, general commodity prices fell 0.8%, consumer durables prices fell by 3%, the decline than in April 2009, respectively, enlarged 0.1, 0.1, 0.4 and 0.3%. The article points out that the main reasons for the continued expansion of industrial prices in May are as follows: first, the negative impact of the international financial crisis on the real economy is still increasing. Despite the various policy measures taken by Governments to deal with the financial crisis this year, some economic indicators have shown signs of stagnation, but overall the recession in the major economies continues and global demand remains sluggish. Despite a clear rebound in prices for some basic products over the past 2 months, it remains relatively low compared with last year's high, especially in the overall decline in industrial consumer prices.　　From the view of supply and demand, the situation of oversupply of industrial products in China is difficult to change in short term, which restrains the rapid pick-up of PPI in China. Second, although May 2009 industrial prices and raw materials, fuel, power purchase price rose 0.1% and 0.6% respectively than last month, but due to 2008 industrial prices in the first 8 months in the rapid "ramp" stage, May 2008 than April industrial products and raw materials, fuel, Power purchase prices rose 0.8% and 1.3% respectively, significantly higher than the quarter-on-quarter increase in May this year, so the performance of May 2009 industrial PricesThe year-on-year decline continued to widen. In addition, from the monthly price changes in prices, since April this year, the first time since the negative positive for industrial products has been rising for 2 consecutive months, thus terminating the 7 consecutive months of the downward trend of the chain. Compared with last month's price ratio, April 2009 and May Industrial products ex-factory prices rose 0.2% and 0.1% respectively, raw materials, fuel, power purchase prices rose 0.8% and 0.6% respectively. It is noteworthy that oil and gas mining, petroleum processing and coking, chemical fiber, non-ferrous metal smelting and calendering processing industry, the main products prices have been 3 consecutive months, showing a clear rebound trend.