In March, Producers’ Price Index (PPI) for manufactured goods up by 8.0 percent from the same month last year; purchasing prices for raw material rose by 11.0 percent.

PPI for means increased 8.7 percent over last March. Of the total, PPIs for raw materials industry and machining industry correspondingly up by 10.2 and 5.5 percent; that for means of consumer goods grew 5.5 percent.

Of which, price for clothing and commodities rose 2.0 and 3.8 percent, while that for durable consumer goods dropped 0.6 percent.

In terms of different categories:
PPI for crude oil increased 37.9 percent, year-on-year.

PPI for polystyrene grew 1.3 percent compared with the same month a year ago; that of latex up by 20.7 percent; and that of terylene rose by 3.0 percent, year on year.

In addition, wherein the purchasing price for raw materials, the price for chemical materials increased 4.9 percent respectively, year-on-year.

From January to March, PPI grew 6.9 percent, year-on-year; the purchasing price for raw materials products increased 9.8 percent.