Report Industry Investment Rating No relevant information provided Core View of the Report - Price growth remains weak, and the policy bottom - support effect is emerging. The price recovery in July shows the characteristics of "consumption stronger than production, and policy - driven repair". The marginal improvement in price data in July, with CPI turning positive month - on - month and the narrowing of PPI decline, is closely related to the intensive implementation of "anti - involution" policies and the continuous efforts of domestic demand expansion policies since July [2][9][86]. - The continuous rise of core CPI inflation may indicate that the domestic demand expansion policy's bottom - support effect on domestic demand is gradually emerging, while the narrowing of PPI decline may rely more on the policy's regulation of the supply - side competition order, and the impact of the substantial expansion of the demand side needs continuous observation [2][10][86]. Summary by Relevant Catalogs 1. Macro - level News - In July, CPI was flat year - on - year, mainly affected by low food prices. Core CPI excluding food and energy prices was up 0.8% year - on - year, with the increase expanding for three consecutive months. CPI was up 0.4% month - on - month, higher than the seasonal level by 0.1 pct, mainly driven by the rise in service and industrial consumer goods prices [12]. - In July, PPI was down 3.6% year - on - year, the same as last month. PPI was down 0.2% month - on - month, with the decline narrowing by 0.2 pct compared to last month, the first narrowing of the month - on - month decline since March. The price recovery of production materials mainly occurred in July [15]. - In the first seven months of 2025, China's total value of goods trade imports and exports was 25.7 trillion yuan, up 3.5% year - on - year. Exports were 15.3 trillion yuan, up 7.3% year - on - year; imports were 10.39 trillion yuan, down 1.6% year - on - year, with the decline narrowing by 1.1 pct compared to the first six months. In July, the total value of goods trade imports and exports was 3.9 trillion yuan, up 6.7% year - on - year. Exports were 2.3 trillion yuan, up 8% year - on - year; imports were 1.6 trillion yuan, up 4.8% year - on - year [17]. 2. Meso - level High - frequency Data 2.1 Consumption - As of July 31, the average daily retail volume of passenger car manufacturers was 9.7 million vehicles, down 0.8% year - on - year, and the average daily wholesale volume was 17.2 million vehicles, up 1.3% year - on - year. As of August 8, the total box office revenue of national movies in the past 7 days was 168,932,800 yuan, up 98.5% year - on - year [20]. - As of August 1, the total retail volume of three major household appliances was 1.739 million units, down 3.7% year - on - year, and the total retail sales were 4.05 billion yuan, up 2.7% year - on - year [22]. 2.2 Transportation - As of August 3, the port's container throughput was 5.68 million twenty - foot equivalent units, down 7.0% year - on - year. As of August 7, the average subway passenger volume in first - tier cities in the past 7 days was 3,934,400 person - times, down 1.3% year - on - year [25]. - As of August 3, the postal express pick - up volume was 3.6 billion pieces, up 14.6% year - on - year. The railway freight volume was 77.694 million tons, up 6.5% year - on - year, and the highway truck traffic volume was 5.2593 million vehicles, up 2.8% year - on - year [27][31]. 2.3 Industrial Operating Rates - As of August 6, the blast furnace operating rate of major steel enterprises was 77.5%, up 3.4 pct year - on - year. As of August 7, the average asphalt operating rate was 25.0%, up 2.0 pct year - on - year [34]. - As of August 7, the soda ash operating rate was 85.2%, down 4.8 pct year - on - year, and the PVC operating rate was 75.5%, up 0.1 pct year - on - year. As of August 8, the average PX operating rate was 82.0%, and the average PTA operating rate was 76.8% [37]. 2.4 Real Estate - As of August 7, the total commercial housing transaction area in 30 large and medium - sized cities in the past 7 days was 1.392 million square meters, down 17.8% year - on - year. The total number of commercial housing transactions was 15,625 units, down 15.5% year - on - year [41][43]. 2.5 Prices - As of August 8, the average wholesale price of pork was 20.4 yuan/kg, down 21.2% year - on - year and 0.8% compared to four weeks ago; the average wholesale price of vegetables was 4.6 yuan/kg, down 16.9% year - on - year and up 4.1% compared to four weeks ago; the average wholesale price of six key fruits was 7.0 yuan/kg, down 4.3% year - on - year and 4.5% compared to four weeks ago [48]. - As of August 8, the average price of thermal coal at northern ports was 665 yuan/ton, down 21.7% year - on - year and up 7.8% compared to four weeks ago; the average spot price of WTI crude oil was 65.4 US dollars/barrel, down 11.9% year - on - year and 3.3% compared to four weeks ago; the average spot price of rebar was 3,328.1 yuan/ton, up 4.23% year - on - year and 6.5% compared to four weeks ago [51]. - As of August 8, the average spot price of iron ore was 786.5 yuan/ton, down 0.9% year - on - year and up 5.7% compared to four weeks ago; the average spot price of glass was 15.2 yuan/square meter, down 11.9% year - on - year and up 8.2% compared to four weeks ago [56]. 3. Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets - On August 8, overnight Shibor was 1.31%, up 0.04 BP from August 4. R001 was 1.34%, down 0.99 BP from August 4; R007 was 1.45%, down 2.17 BP from August 4. DR001 was 1.31%, down 0.30 BP from August 4; DR007 was 1.43%, down 2.67 BP from August 4. IBO001 was 1.35%, up 0.17 BP from August 4; IBO007 was 1.50%, up 0.78 BP from August 4 [62]. - Most government bond yields declined. On August 8, the yields of 1 - year/5 - year/10 - year/30 - year government bonds were 1.35%/1.54%/1.69%/1.96% respectively, down 2.0 BP/2.4 BP/1.9 BP/up 0.9 BP compared to August 1. The yields of 1 - year/5 - year/10 - year/30 - year China Development Bank bonds were 1.50%/1.66%/1.78%/2.05% respectively, up 0.0 BP/down 0.6 BP/up 1.6 BP/up 0.2 BP compared to August 1 [66]. - On August 8, the yields of 1 - year/5 - year/10 - year local government bonds were 1.38%/1.66%/1.82% respectively, down 0.3 BP/up 0.4 BP/up 0.2 BP compared to August 1. The yields of AAA 1 - month/1 - year and AA+ 1 - month/1 - year inter - bank certificates of deposit were 1.46%/1.62%/1.48%/1.66% respectively, down 1.3 BP from August 1 [72]. - As of August 8, 2025, the yields of 10 - year government bonds in the US, Japan, the UK, and Germany were 4.3%, 1.5%, 4.6%, and 2.7% respectively, up 4 BP/down 7 BP/up 6 BP/down 6 BP compared to August 1. The central parity rate and spot exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB were 7.14/7.18 respectively, down 114/280 pips from August 1 [77][80]. 4. Institutional Behavior - Since the beginning of 2025, the duration of interest - rate bond medium - and long - term pure bond funds has shown a trend of first decline and then rise, and has been declining in the past two weeks. On August 8, the estimated average duration was about 5.2 years, down about 0.12 years from August 1 [83]. - Since the beginning of 2025, the duration of credit - bond medium - and long - term pure bond funds has shown a volatile trend. In the past three weeks, the duration has risen rapidly and then fluctuated. On August 8, the estimated median duration was about 2.7 years, and the estimated average duration was about 2.6 years, down about 0.03 years from August 1 [84]. 5. Investment Recommendations - Going long in the bond market is currently the path of least resistance. In August, the yield of 10Y government bonds may gradually return to around 1.65%, and the yield of 5Y national - joint - stock secondary bonds may fall below 1.9%. With the cooling of anti - involution, weak price growth, the stock market entering a volatile phase, and the possible decline in social financing growth rate, there are few negative factors for the bond market currently [11][88]. - The tax new regulations have relatively increased the scarcity of government bonds and old financial bonds, which may prompt banks' proprietary trading to scramble for government bonds and old financial bonds. The relatively low spread between newly - issued government bonds and existing bonds may temporarily push down yields. Currently, there is a phased overall bullish view on the bond market, bullish on long - duration sinking urban investment and capital bonds, bullish on urban investment dim sum bonds and US dollar bonds, strongly recommending perpetual bonds of Minsheng Bank, Bohai Bank, and Hengfeng Bank, and paying attention to capital bond opportunities of Tianjin Bank, Beibu Gulf Bank, and China Property Insurance [11][88].