张瑜：“十月”数据中的关键信息点——张瑜旬度会议纪要No.126

Group 1: Long-term Perspective on Price Stability - The high growth rate of productive investment, particularly in manufacturing, is a key factor restricting medium-term price stability, and a decline in productive investment is a prerequisite for achieving this stability [1] - In October, economic data continued to support this view, with retail sales and service production growth rates falling by approximately 2-3 percentage points compared to the peak in May, while infrastructure and real estate growth rates dropped by over 10 percentage points [1] - Manufacturing growth saw the most significant decline, with a cumulative drop of 15 percentage points, indicating a faster clearing pace in midstream investments compared to the overall sector [1] Group 2: Current Understanding of CPI Data - The October CPI data exceeded expectations, with a month-on-month increase of 0.2%, which is 0.3 percentage points higher than the previously anticipated -0.1% [2] - The unexpected CPI increase is primarily attributed to fluctuations in food prices and gold, which together accounted for approximately 0.2 percentage points of the CPI change [2] - Despite the CPI increase, it is deemed unsustainable, as the underlying factors contributing to this rise are considered temporary and unlikely to persist [3] Group 3: Economic Sentiment and Policy Expectations - Current economic data indicates that essential consumption and service consumption are closely aligned with economic sentiment, while productive investment, infrastructure, and real estate sectors are lagging behind [4] - Essential consumption growth, excluding highly subsidized durable goods, showed an improvement to 4.2% in October, up from 3.4% previously, indicating a stable performance [5] - Service consumption, measured by retail sales growth in the service sector, recorded a cumulative increase of 5.3% from January to October, slightly up from 5.2% [6] - The expectation is that policies will likely maintain continuity and may even be moderately intensified to stabilize economic sentiment [4][6]