Policy & Regulation

Global crude demand is expected to rally slightly from the sluggish level seen so far in 2019 in the second half of the year.

• crude oil
• demand

Recently, China held a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region. The conference pointed out that the central region should continuously enhance its comprehensive strength and competitiveness.

• policy

Since 2016, the coal industry has withdrawn from the backward production capacity of 810 million tons, fulfilling the 13th Five-Year Plan ahead of schedule.

• productivity

Recently, the leaders of the State Development and Reform Commission, the Banking Insurance Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have made intensive voices in recent years.

• economy
• trend

Yulin coal price has become a trend, and the decline is expanding. Yesterday, another 10 coal mines in Yulin lowered their prices by 10 to 40 yuan per ton.

• price
• trend
• coal

From January to April 2019, more than 32.84 trillion yuan of operating income was realized in industrial enterprises of national scale, up 5.1% from the same period last year.

• mining

Although the domestic economic operation has maintained an overall stable development trend, a number of important data significantly lower than market expectations still cause market worries.

• market

Domestic coke prices have risen rapidly since May, and domestic coke futures prices have reached a new high. On May 25, the highest coke price hit 2362 CNY/ton in the main contract market.

• coke
• price

Since April, coke prices in the main coke producing areas of China have been raised successfully for two rounds, with a cumulative increase of 200 CNY/ton.

• coke
• supply

Since the beginning of the year, domestic xylene prices have mostly been volatile. Businessmen have good expectations for the growth of MX demand for new PX production capacity in the year.

• xylene

This week, the price of titanium concentrate in Panxi area maintained stable. In Panzhihua area, there has been little rain recently, and the start-up of the water separation plant is limited.

• titanium

As for coking coal, spot coal is running strongly under better demand, and coking coal prices have risen in many places. On the supply side, although some coal mines are tightening supervision, the overall domestic supply is stable.

• coal

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in April, the national consumer price (CPI) rose by 2.5% year-on-year, 0.2% higher than last month.

• CPI

On May 17, the regular theme news conference held by the Development and Reform Commission revealed that the overall balance of coal supply and demand in April.

• coal
• supply

In the legislative work plan of the State Council for 2019 announced this time, the statute of implementing the Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law appeared, and it was clearly drafted by the State Administration of Market Supervision.

• environment
• regulation

Recently, a series of measures have been put forward intensively to alleviate the difficulty and expensive financing of private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises.

• policy
• enterprise

In April, despite successive bad news stories in the domestic maize market, the biggest bad news about "American grain import" did not seem to bring too much pressure on the maize market.

• maize

Although the current market buying and selling has picked up, the basic aspects of corn consumption still need to be observed.

• maize
• price

This year, China's grain production is expected to remain stable. The sown area of rice, wheat and maize will be stabilized at 1.438 billion mu.

• China
• grain

China imported 6.94 million mt of natural gas in March, up 16.7% year on year, as LNG imports play an increasingly vital role in the country's energy mix.

• China
• gas
• imports