Nonferrous Metals Industry Operation in April

In April, the output of ten kinds of nonferrous metals nationwide increased by 2.3% year-on-year, and the growth rate slowed down by 9.3% year-on-year. Among them, electrolytic aluminum production increased by 6.7%, slowing by 0.7%; copper production increased by 5.1%, and lead and zinc production decreased by 3% and 10.5% respectively. The price of major non-ferrous metals has declined. In April, the average prices of copper and zinc futures for the Shanghai Futures Exchange were 59,294 yuan per ton and 15,407 yuan per ton respectively, down by 0.6% and 1.4% from the previous month and down by 16.8% and 14.8% year-on-year; the price of electrolytic aluminum was 15,997 yuan. / Ton, basically the same as last month, down 3.3% year-on-year. From January to April, the output of ten types of non-ferrous metals nationwide was 11.23 million tons, an increase of 4.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate slowed by 5 percentage points year-on-year. The output of electrolytic aluminum was 6.1 million tons, an increase of 10.7%, an acceleration of 8 percentage points; copper production increased by 8.1%, a decrease of 7.7 percentage points; lead production decreased by 8.8%, an increase of 33% over the same period of last year; zinc output decreased by 7.3%, which was the same period of last year. 9.2%. Alumina production increased by 7.7%, slowing by 4.7 percentage points. In the first three months, the nonferrous metal industry realized a profit of 39.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3.1%. Among them, non-ferrous metal mining industry profit 15.4 billion yuan, an increase of 16.5%; non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry profits 24.5 billion, down 12.4%.