China Industrial Capacity Utilization 2013-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Industrial capacity utilization in China dropped to 76.5% in the first quarter of 2018 from a record-high of 78% in the previous period. It was the lowest reading since the March quarter of last year. The capacity utilization rate of the mining industry went up by 3.4 percentage points from the previous year to 73.1%; the manufacturing one was 0.7 percentage points higher at 77% and the utilization rate at electricity, heat, and gas, water production and supply rose by 1.1 percentage points to 72.7%. In 2017, industrial capacity utilization was at 77%, up 3.7 percentage points from 2016. Capacity Utilization in China averaged 74.99 percent from 2013 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 78.0 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 and a record low of 72.90 percent in the first quarter of 2016.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	TEForecast
2018-01-19	01:30 AM	Industrial Capacity Capacity Utilization	78.0%	76.8%	76.8%
2018-04-19	03:30 AM	Industrial Capacity Utilization	76.5%	78.0%	77.5%
2018-07-17	01:30 AM	Industrial Capacity Utilization		76.5%	77%
2018-10-20	01:30 AM	Industrial Capacity Utilization			78%

China Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	51.50	50.30	59.20	38.80	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	54.60	54.40	62.20	50.80	percent	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	51.00	51.60	52.30	47.20		[+]
Services PMI	52.30	54.20	54.70	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	6.00	7.20	29.40	-21.10	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.33	0.57	1.32	0.13	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	6.60	7.00	11.40	6.30	percent	[+]
New Orders	53.30	51.00	65.10	32.30	Index Points	[+]
Changes in Inventories	10815.70	11109.60	12662.30	3.00	CNY HML	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	2656300.00	1717600.00	3060271.00	88416.00		[+]
Car Production	2199100.00	1439200.00	2669100.00	215533.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	2168600.00	1475500.00	2672300.00	213534.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	100.53	100.88	116.40	97.45	Index Points	[+]
Internet Speed	7583.32	6295.74	7583.32	635.70	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	98862937.00	104032031.00	119094184.00	28818357.00	IP	[+]
Steel Production	64930.00	67000.00	74594.00	4918.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	-1.10	1.60	7.90	-3.80	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	76.50	78.00	78.00	72.90	percent	[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.00	4.95	5.00	4.55	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	27.00	28.00	34.00	26.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	51.80	53.30	53.70	48.00		[+]
Cement Production	15443.00	19144.10	23427.00	781.50	Ten Thousands of Tonnes	[+]
Corruption Index	41.00	40.00	41.00	21.60	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	77.00	79.00	100.00	40.00		[+]
Corporate Profits	968900.00	7518710.00	7518710.00	1617.00	CNY Million	[+]
Ease of Doing Business	78.00	78.00	99.00	78.00		[+]
Electricity Production	569900.00	519600.00	604700.00	41760.00	Gigawatt-hour	[+]

China Industrial Capacity Utilization

This page provides - China Capacity Utilization- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. China Industrial Capacity Utilization - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2018.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	76.50	78.00	78.00	72.90	2013 - 2018	percent	Quarterly

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capacity utilization by Country

Country	Last		Previous	Highest	Lowest
Australia	82.36	Mar/18	82.48	84.67	78.24	%	Monthly
Brazil	78.00	Feb/18	78.1	84.6	76.1	%	Monthly
Canada	86.00	Dec/17	85.1	87.3	72.7	%	Quarterly
China	76.50	Mar/18	78	78	72.9	%	Quarterly
Euro Area	84.40	Mar/18	83.8	85.3	69.6	%	Quarterly
France	85.70	Mar/18	84.9	90.3	71.4	%	Quarterly
Germany	87.90	Mar/18	87.1	88.7	70.2	%	Quarterly
Indonesia	76.27	Mar/18	75.05	79.78	62.43	%	Quarterly
Italy	78.50	Dec/17	78	81	64.9	%	Quarterly
Japan	101.90	Feb/18	98.6	138	69.3	Index Points	Monthly
Mexico	81.10	Jan/18	80.4	82.5	74.1	%	Monthly
Netherlands	83.50	Mar/18	83.3	86.5	74.4	%	Quarterly
Russia	62.00	Feb/18	62	66	38	%	Monthly
South Korea	103.40	Feb/18	103	114	4.2	Index Points	Monthly
Spain	80.03	Dec/17	79.07	90	68.86	%	Quarterly
Switzerland	84.01	Mar/18	82.96	90	75.04	%	Quarterly
Turkey	77.80	Mar/18	77.8	82	58.7	%	Monthly
United Kingdom	81.20	Mar/18	84.7	85.2	38	%	Quarterly
United States	78.02	Mar/18	77.73	89.39	66.71	%	Monthly