The building materials industry is an important material industry in China


Release Date:

25 May,2023

The building materials industry is an important material industry in China.Building materials products include three major categories: building materials and products, non-metallic minerals and products, and inorganic non-metallic new materials.

The building materials industry is an important material industry in China.Building materials products include three major categories: building materials and products, non-metallic minerals and products, and inorganic non-metallic new materials. They are widely used in construction, military industry, environmental protection, high-tech industries, and people's lives.

In 2006, building materials companies above the scale completed the total industrial output value (current price) of 1,327.5 billion yuan, an increase of 29.1%; completed the main business income of 1,153.4 billion yuan, an increase of 29.3% year-on-year; realized profits of 60.3 billion yuan, an increase of 47.1%.In 2007, the building materials industry achieved a profit of 79.6 billion yuan, an increase of 56.6% year-on-year.In 2007, the comprehensive energy consumption of cement was 138 kg of standard coal, a decrease of 4 kg of standard coal over the previous year.In the first quarter of 2008, the building materials industry completed an industrial added value of 94.7 billion yuan, an increase of 27.9% over the same period in 2007 in terms of comparable prices, and the growth rate accelerated by 1.7 percentage points compared with the same period in 2007, showing a rapid growth trend.

In 2011, the total industrial output value of enterprises above the national building materials scale was 3.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 34.2% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 1.6 percentage points higher than in 2010.Among them, cement production was 2.09 billion tons, an increase of 11.7% year-on-year; flat glass production was 790 million weight boxes, an increase of 14% year-on-year; the total output value of the building sanitary ceramics industry was 386.1 billion yuan, an increase of 32.2% year-on-year.