Economy
April 24, 2017
China’s Economic Statistics and Steel Production through Q1 2017
Written by Peter Wright
Once each quarter we publish the official statistics for Chinese GDP, industrial production, consumer price inflation and fixed asset investment. Currently available data is through the first quarter except for CPI which is through February. Many analysts don’t believe these Party self-serving figures but we include them in our reports because of the importance of China in the global steel scene and these numbers are all there is.
Figure 1 shows published data for the growth of GDP, industrial production and consumer prices through the first quarter of 2017. The GDP and industrial production portions of this graph are three month moving averages.
