China's central bank survey: Entrepreneurs' macroeconomic enthusiasm index rebounded slightly month-on-month

　　China News Agency, Beijing, October 9 (Reporter Xia Bin) The third quarter of 2022 entrepreneurs survey report released by the People's Bank of China on the 9th showed that the macroeconomic heat index of entrepreneurs was 26.9%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from the previous quarter. This is a decrease of 12.9 percentage points compared with the same period of the previous year.

Among them, 46.9% of entrepreneurs think the macro economy is "cold", 52.2% think it is "normal", and 0.8% think it is "hot".

　　This is the result of the People's Bank of China's survey of more than 5,000 industrial enterprises across the country.

　　The survey mentioned that the raw material purchase price sentiment index of entrepreneurs in the third quarter was 56.7%, a decrease of 11.4 percentage points from the previous quarter and a decrease of 15.3 percentage points from the same period of the previous year.

Among them, 26.9% of the entrepreneurs believed that the purchase price of raw materials in this quarter "increased" compared with the previous quarter, 59.5% considered it "flat", and 13.6% considered it "down".

　　In addition, the business climate index was 48.1%, a decrease of 0.6 percentage points from the previous quarter and a decrease of 8.5 percentage points from the same period of the previous year.

Among them, 16.4% of the entrepreneurs thought that the operating conditions of the enterprises in this quarter were "good", 63.4% thought it was "average", and 20.3% thought it was "poor".

　　The survey report on urban depositors in the third quarter of 2022 released on the same day showed that 12.2% of residents believed that their income had "increased", an increase of 1.4 percentage points from the previous quarter, and 69.7% of residents believed that their income was "basically unchanged", an increase from the previous quarter. 2.2 percentage points, and 18.1% of residents believed that their income was "reduced", a decrease of 3.6 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The income confidence index was 46.5%, up 0.8 percentage points from the previous quarter.

　　The survey results for bankers showed that the bankers' macroeconomic heat index was 19.9%, an increase of 2.1 percentage points from the previous quarter.

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