The first eight months of chemical materials and products manufacturing profits rose 5% year-on-year
The data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics on September 27 showed that from January to August, industrial enterprises above the national scale achieved a total profit of 5,525.40 billion yuan, down 2.1% year-on-year. Among them, the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry achieved a total profit of 541.55 billion yuan, an increase of 5.0%.
January to August, industrial enterprises above the scale, state-controlled enterprises to achieve total profits of 1,901.10 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4%; joint-stock enterprises to achieve total profits of 406.23 billion yuan, an increase of 0.8%; foreign and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan invested enterprises to achieve total profits of 127.97 billion yuan, down 12.0%; private enterprises to achieve Total profit of 149.55 billion yuan, down 8.3%.
From January to August, the mining industry achieved a total profit of 112.48 billion yuan, up 88.1%; manufacturing industry achieved a total profit of 4,077.72 billion yuan, down 13.4%; electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply industry achieved a total profit of 323.01 billion yuan, down 4.9%.
From January to August, in 41 major industrial sectors, 16 industries, total profits increased year-on-year, 25 industries fell. The main industry profits are as follows: coal mining and washing industry total profits increased by 1.12 times, oil and gas extraction industry increased by 1.11 times, electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry increased by 20.9%, chemical materials and chemical products manufacturing industry increased by 5.0%, special equipment manufacturing industry fell by 1.8%, electricity, heat production and supply industry fell by 2.0%, computer, communications and other Electronic equipment manufacturing industry fell 5.6%, non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry fell 6.6%, automotive manufacturing industry fell 7.3%, agricultural and food processing industry fell 7.9%, non-metallic mineral products industry fell 9.4%, general equipment manufacturing industry fell 10.3%, the textile industry fell 14.1%, petroleum, coal and other fuel processing industry fell 58.5%, ferrous metal smelting and rolling Processing industry fell 87.7%.
January to August, industrial enterprises above the size of 87.89 trillion yuan of business income, an increase of 8.4%; operating costs of 74.56 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.7%; operating income profit margin of 6.29%, down 0.67 percentage points.
At the end of August, the total assets of industrial enterprises above the size of 150.99 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.6%; total liabilities of 85.76 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.0%; total owner's equity of 65.23 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.2%; asset and liability ratio of 56.8%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points.
At the end of August, accounts receivable of industrial enterprises above the size of 20.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.0%; inventory of finished goods 6.02 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.1%.
From January to August, the cost per hundred yuan of business income of industrial enterprises above the scale was 84.83 yuan, an increase of 1.04 yuan year-on-year; the cost per hundred yuan of business income was 7.91 yuan, a decrease of 0.51 yuan.
At the end of August, industrial enterprises above the scale achieved operating income of 89.9 yuan per 100 yuan of assets, a decrease of 1.4 yuan; per capita operating income of 1.762 million yuan, an increase of 153,000 yuan; finished goods inventory turnover days of 18.3 days, an increase of 0.8 days; accounts receivable average recovery period of 54.4 days, an increase of 2.9 days.
2026-10-04
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