高频经济周报：生产总体平稳，投资优于消费-20250920

1. Report Industry Investment Rating No relevant content provided. 2. Core Viewpoints of the Report - The overall production is stable, and investment is better than consumption during the period from September 14 to September 20, 2025 [1]. - The industrial production shows marginal improvement, with mixed performance in different sectors. The personnel flow slightly rebounds, and the freight price slightly drops. The consumption shows a decline in the year - on - year wholesale sales of automobiles and a differentiation in prices. The investment has good performance in construction and a recovery in the commercial housing market. The port throughput in exports increases, while most shipping indices decline. - The bond indices generally rise, most stock indices increase, commodities show mixed performance, and most foreign currencies depreciate against the RMB [1]. 3. Summary According to the Table of Contents 3.1. Category of Assets - This week, bond indices generally rose, most stock indices increased, commodities showed mixed performance, and most foreign currencies declined. The China Bond 7 - 10 - year China Development Bank Bond Index had the largest increase, with a weekly increase of 0.15%. The ChiNext Index had the largest gain among stock indices, with a weekly increase of 2.34%. The Nanhua Black Index among commodities had the largest increase, with a gain of 2.27%, while the Nanhua Precious Metals Index had the largest decline, with a drop of 0.80%. The British pound had the largest decline among foreign currencies, with a weekly decline of 0.50%, and the US dollar depreciated against the RMB, with a weekly decline of 0.14% [1][6]. 3.2. Industrial Production - Production showed marginal improvement. From the upstream perspective, the weekly coal consumption in the national power plant sample area decreased by 1.27% week - on - week, the operating rate of petroleum asphalt plants decreased by 0.50 pcts to 34.40% week - on - week, the blast furnace operating rate increased by 0.15 pcts to 84.00% week - on - week, and the crude steel output increased by 7.19% week - on - week. In the real - estate chain, the operating rate of rebar and float glass remained flat compared to last week at 42.96% and 76.31% respectively, and the mill operation rate increased by 1.18 pcts to 38.55% week - on - week. In the consumer goods chain, the operating rate of polyester filament increased by 0.11 pcts to 91.54% week - on - week, the PTA operating rate increased by 2.34 pcts to 77.29% week - on - week, and the methanol operating rate decreased by 1.81 pcts to 79.39% week - on - week. In the automotive chain, the operating rate of semi - steel tires for automobiles increased by 0.20 pcts to 73.66% week - on - week, and the operating rate of all - steel tires for automobiles increased by 0.07 pcts to 65.66% week - on - week [1][9]. 3.3. People and Freight Flow - The personnel flow slightly rebounded, and the freight price slightly dropped. The 7 - day moving average (7DMA) of the national migration scale index increased by 0.07% week - on - week. The 7DMA of the number of domestic flights increased by 0.80% week - on - week, and the 7DMA of the number of international flights increased by 2.56% week - on - week. The subway passenger volumes in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen all increased. The 4 - week moving average (4WMA) of the road logistics freight rate index decreased by 0.04% week - on - week, and the total volume was higher than the same period in previous years [1][27]. 3.4. Consumption - The year - on - year wholesale sales of automobiles declined, and the prices showed differentiation. The year - on - year wholesale sales of passenger cars decreased by 1.00%, while the year - on - year retail sales increased by 1.00%. The 4WMA of the year - on - year growth rates of both wholesale and retail sales declined. The weekly box office of movies increased by 170% week - on - week, and the 7DMA of the number of movie - goers increased by 176% week - on - week. Most agricultural product prices declined, with the pork price decreasing by 2.01% week - on - week and the vegetable price decreasing by 3.27% week - on - week [1][44]. 3.5. Investment - Construction showed good performance, and the commercial housing market recovered. The cement inventory - to - capacity ratio increased by 0.5 pcts week - on - week, the cement price index increased by 0.42% week - on - week, and the cement shipping rate remained flat compared to last week. The rebar inventory decreased by 0.4% week - on - week, the proportion of profitable steel mills nationwide decreased by 1.3 pcts week - on - week, and the apparent demand for rebar increased by 6.0% week - on - week. The 7DMA of the commercial housing transaction area in 30 large and medium - sized cities increased by 7.7% week - on - week, with increases in first - tier, second - tier, and third - tier cities. The 7DMA of the second - hand housing transaction area in 16 cities decreased by 1.6% week - on - week, and the national second - hand housing listing price index decreased by 0.2% week - on - week. The land transaction area in 100 cities decreased, and the land transaction premium rate decreased week - on - week [1][49]. 3.6. Exports - The port throughput increased, and most shipping indices declined. The weekly port cargo throughput increased by 1.8%, and the weekly container throughput increased by 0.1%. The BDI Index increased by 3.62% week - on - week, while the SCFI Index and CCFI Index decreased by 14.30% and 0.45% respectively week - on - week [1][68].