China News Service, Beijing, April 2 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) The China Storage Index jointly surveyed by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and China Reserve Development Co., Ltd. was 52.7% in March 2021, an increase of 3.8 percentage points from the previous month.
Industry analysts believe that in the later stage, companies have sufficient confidence in business growth in the short term, indicating that the development of the warehousing industry will continue to maintain a positive trend in the future.
Among the sub-indices, the facility utilization index, the ending inventory index, and the enterprise employee index fell from the previous month, while the rest of the indexes all rebounded to varying degrees.
Analysts believe that the March 2021 ending inventory index, which is composed of 21 categories of commodities, is 55.3%, a decrease of 4.5 percentage points from the previous month, and remains at a relatively high level in the expansion range, reflecting that the inbound volume of the warehousing link is higher than the outbound volume. , The inventory level continued to rise on the basis of the previous month.
In terms of categories, among the means of production commodities, the inventories of steel and non-ferrous commodities have rebounded significantly from the previous month; among the commodities of subsistence, the inventories of food, clothing, textiles, and home appliances have rebounded significantly from the previous month.
It reflects that after the Spring Festival holiday, the demand for warehousing business has gradually recovered in the context of the accelerated recovery of the domestic economy.
In March, the business volume index was 54.9%, an increase of 13.2 percentage points from the previous month to the line of prosperity and decline, reflecting that on the basis of the low base in the previous period, with the arrival of the peak season of production and construction, enterprises from all over the country have started construction one after another, and market demand has increased Centralized release.
In terms of product categories, the business volume of nonferrous metals, building materials and other means of production commodities has rebounded significantly.
The analysis believes that from the perspective of later trends, both the new order index and the business expectation index have maintained a rapid upward trend.
Recently, the momentum of domestic economic recovery has strengthened, and the policy effect of expanding domestic demand has gradually emerged, supporting the demand for warehousing business. The continuation of the later peak season also has a pulling effect on warehousing demand. Enterprises are more optimistic about their business expectations in the short term in the future.
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