China News Agency, Beijing, April 20 (Reporter Chen Su) Data released on the 20th showed that the efficiency of central enterprises fell sharply in the first quarter, operating income fell by 11.8%, and net profit fell by 58.8%. At the press conference held by the State Council ’s new office on the same day, Peng Huagang, secretary-general and press spokesman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China, explained the reasons for the decline in the efficiency of central enterprises, mainly mentioning four reasons.
First, aviation, automobile, tourism and other industries that directly face consumers have been hit hard. In the first quarter, the passenger transport market demand of aviation companies fell sharply, passenger traffic dropped significantly year-on-year, and operating losses have already occurred. The overall aviation industry has suffered losses. Affected by sales terminals and suppliers 'difficulty in resuming work, automobile companies' sales volume fell by more than 30% year-on-year, and the first-quarter profit decreased by 10 billion yuan (RMB, the same below). Tourism enterprises are affected by the almost stagnation of tourism sales and business travel activities. The number of people entering the park and the hotel occupancy rate of the scenic spot have fallen sharply, and the profit reduction is very obvious.
Second, the plunge in international crude oil prices has led to significant reductions in profits for petroleum and petrochemical companies. In the first quarter, international crude oil prices plummeted, and the price of Brent crude oil fell from US $ 68 per barrel at the beginning of January to US $ 23 per barrel at the end of March, which had a major impact on the production, operation and efficiency of the central oil and petrochemical enterprises. Domestic demand declined in the first quarter, sales of refined oil products fell by more than 20%, revenues from exploration, refining and other businesses were upside down, and the overall loss of petroleum and petrochemical companies affected the central government's profit growth rate by 30 points.
The third is the implementation of national policies to reduce profits and make profits. Central enterprises resolutely implement the national policies for reducing electricity prices, gas prices, road fees, rents, and capital fees, and reduce the costs of social users by more than 45 billion yuan. For example, power grid companies have reduced the cost of more than 50 million business users by about 20 billion yuan. Petroleum and petrochemical companies have lowered the price of non-residential gas for a profit of 7.5 billion yuan. Telecommunications companies have provided 2.9 million medical and epidemic prevention personnel with downtime-free services. During the epidemic situation, the reduction and exemption policy was implemented and the profit was 15 billion yuan.
Fourth, the cost of anti-epidemic and epidemic prevention affects the growth of enterprise benefits. During the epidemic, enterprises such as coal, electricity, oil, transportation, food, and telecommunications have made every effort to ensure uninterrupted basic protection. Enterprises that undertake the production of medical protective materials are converted to expand production. Aviation logistics companies guarantee transportation at any cost, and construction companies rush to build at any cost Specialized hospitals and sheltered hospitals. In the first quarter, the cost of 100 yuan revenue paid by central enterprises increased by 2.4 yuan year-on-year.
Peng Huagang said that the operation results of central enterprises in the first quarter were the impact of multiple factors, and the decline in benefits was also a price that must be withstood for the prevention and control of epidemics. . (Finish)