China News Service, Beijing, May 5 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) Data released by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing on the 5th showed that China's warehousing index in April was 46.5%, a decrease of 0.4 percentage points from the previous month and the lowest level since February 2020. .

  In April, China's warehousing index continued its downward trend, down 0.4 percentage points from the previous month to 46.5%, and kept running at a low level below the line of prosperity and decline.

Among the sub-indices, except for the main business cost index and business activity expectation index, which remained in the expansion range, the rest of the indices fell into the contraction range, especially the business volume index and the extended business volume index, which fell by a large margin, respectively. reached 8.0 and 8.6 percentage points.

  In April, the ending inventory index, which consists of 21 categories of commodities, was 47.3%, up 3.1 percentage points from the previous month, reflecting that the decline in corporate inventories was slower than the previous period.

In terms of varieties, among the means of production commodities, the inventories of timber, machinery and equipment, and mineral products have rebounded from the previous month; among the commodities of living materials, the inventories of clothing, textiles, medicine, and daily necessities have rebounded from the previous month. .

  The analysis believes that with the spread of the epidemic in many places, the peak season of the commodity market is not prosperous, the demand in the consumer goods market is sluggish, and the warehousing business activities have dropped significantly.

The epidemic has had a great impact on road transportation, and logistics and warehousing are faced with the problem of "can't get out, can't get in", the turnover efficiency has been greatly reduced, and the inventory level has dropped significantly.

  According to the analysis, in April, the business activity expectation index maintained an upward trend in the expansion range.

As China continues to consolidate epidemic prevention and control measures and further implement the deployment of ensuring smooth and smooth freight logistics, the impact of short-term factors will gradually weaken, and the economy will have the foundation for a rapid recovery.

In the later period, the release of infrastructure investment is still strong, delayed consumer demand is expected to be released in a concentrated manner, and the warehousing industry is expected to resume stable operation.

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