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Liaoning Shenyang Nine Dragons Paper (from May 17) containerboard: AA, leftovers, A, B down 20 yuan/ton.After the adjustment, the specific prices are as follows: AA grade 1370, leftovers 1350, A grade 1340, B grade 1310, beer crate 1310, C grade 1290, D grade 1250, pit paper 1220, waste paper 1110; Maersk announced on its official website that it will introduce a transit ground transportation service charge (ITH) for all dry and reefer containers from China, Japan, Singapore, Dammam Port in Saudi Arabia, Jubail Port in Saudi Arabia to Aqaba Port in Jordan, from Aqaba Port in Jordan to Jubail Port in Saudi Arabia, Dammam Port in Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Jebel Ali Port in Dubai, Salalah Port in Oman from May 17, 2024, applicable to regulated and non-regulated countries.Of this, the Transit Ground Service Charge (ITH) is $2,200 for all dry containers and $2,500 for all reefers. Maersk announced on its official website that it will raise the transit ground transportation service fee (ITH) from India, Dubai's Jebel Ali Port, Oman's Salalah Port to Jordan's Aqaba Port, of which the transit ground transportation service fee (ITH) for all dry containers will be increased from $1,900 to $2,200, and the transit ground transportation service fee (ITH) for all reefers will be raised from $2,200 to $2,500, effective from May 18, 2024. The non-ferrous metal inventories and changes on the London Metal Exchange (LME) are as follows: copper inventories were 103,650 tons, a decrease of 775 tons.Aluminum inventories were 1093275 tons, flat.Nickel inventories were 81,804 tons, an increase of 174 tons.Zinc inventories were 259375 tons, a decrease of 300 tons.Lead stocks were 212,900 tons, a decrease of 4,600 tons.Tin stocks were 4,935 tons, an increase of 15 tons. As of May 17, the Manzhouli Railway Port completed 8,310,700 tons of import and export cargo traffic, an increase of 954,600 tons year-on-year, an increase of 13%, a record high in the same period in history.In the first four months of 2024, the volume of imported goods through the Manzhouli railway port increased by 15.6% year-on-year, of which the growth trend of energy materials was obvious, and the volume of imported coal and mineral powder increased by 45.7% and 17.2% year-on-year respectively. According to the statistics of Fuzhou Customs, from January to April this year, Fujian Province exported a total of 27,000 vehicles, an increase of 73.1% over the same period last year.The United Arab Emirates, ASEAN and the European Union are the main markets for Fujian's automobile exports, and the growth rate is relatively fast, and the total export volume of the three accounts for more than 40% of Fujian's total automobile exports.From January to April, Fujian Province exported 12,000 electric passenger vehicles, an increase of 254% over the same period last year, accounting for 45.2% of the total. On May 17, some domestic butadiene enterprises announced the auction price: Fushun Petrochemical's 160,000 tons/year butadiene extraction unit was running stably, 600 tons of goods were sold at a competitive price, and the auction reserve price was 10,300 yuan/ton.The 64,000 tons/year butadiene extraction unit of Shenhua Ningmei is running stably, and a small amount of goods is exported to the outside world, and the price is reduced by 150 yuan/ton to 10,230 yuan/ton.Liaoyang Petrochemical's 30,000 tons/year butadiene plant is operating normally, and 500 tons of goods are sold for export at a bidding price, with a bidding reserve price of 10,300 yuan/ton; The transaction price was 10,330 yuan/ton. From January to March 2024, Zijin Mining's mineral silver output was 102.014 tons, down 3.4% year-on-year, compared with 105.592 tons in the same period last year.Compared to the fourth quarter of 2023, the first quarter of 2024 mined silver production increased by 0.4% QoQ, and Zijin Mining's mined silver production in October-December 2023 was 101.630 tons.In the first quarter of 2024, Zijin Mining achieved an operating income of 74.777 billion yuan, an increase of 9% quarter-on-quarter, and a net profit attributable to the parent company of 6.261 billion yuan, an increase of 26% quarter-on-quarter, and a gross profit margin of 54.50% in the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 8.88 percentage points from the previous quarter. From January to March 2024, Zijin Mining's mineral gold output was 16.805 tons, an increase of 5% year-on-year, compared with 15.952 tons in the same period last year.Compared to Q4 2023, Zijin Mining's mineral gold production in Q1 2024 decreased by 5% QoQ, with 17.635 tonnes of mineralized gold production in October-December 2023.In the first quarter of 2024, Zijin Mining achieved an operating income of 74.777 billion yuan, an increase of 9% quarter-on-quarter, and a net profit attributable to the parent company of 6.261 billion yuan, an increase of 26% quarter-on-quarter, and a gross profit margin of 54.50% in the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 8.88 percentage points from the previous quarter. In April 2024, Anhui Province produced 2.759 tons of gold, a year-on-year increase of 40.9%, and the cumulative gold production from January to April was 10.433 tons, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%, and the annual production guidance plan was completed by 42.6%, exceeding the schedule by 9.3 percentage points.As of the end of April, from the perspective of product structure, the province produced 8.902 tons of finished gold, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%, and the production content of gold was 1.531 tons, an increase of 32.5%; From the perspective of industry classification, the province's smelting enterprises produced 8.754 tons of gold, an increase of 6.5%, and mining enterprises produced 1.679 tons of gold, an increase of 30.8%. According to the announcement released by China Coal Energy, in April 2024, China Coal Energy's commercial coal output will be 10.48 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 640,000 tons, a decrease of 5.8%; It decreased by 350,000 tons month-on-month, down 3.2%.In April, China Coal Energy's commercial coal sales volume was 22.4 million tons, down 11.9% year-on-year, 5 percentage points narrower than the decline in the previous month; It decreased by 1.57 million tons month-on-month, down 6.5%. In April 2024, in April, the output of 386 of the 619 products in China increased year-on-year.Among them, steel was 116.52 million tons, down 1.6% year-on-year; cement 173.95 million tons, down 8.6%; 6.5 million tons of ten non-ferrous metals, an increase of 7.0%; ethylene 2.49 million tons, down 7.2%; 2.346 million automobiles, an increase of 15.4%, including 831,000 new energy vehicles, an increase of 39.2%; power generation was 690.1 billion kilowatt hours, an increase of 3.1%; The crude oil processing volume was 58.79 million tons, down 3.3%. In April 2024, the output of industrial crude oil above designated size was 17.47 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.3%, and the growth rate was 0.1 percentage points faster than that in March, with an average daily output of 582,000 tons.Imported crude oil was 44.72 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%.From January to April, the output of industrial crude oil above the designated size was 70.95 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%.Imported crude oil was 182.07 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.0%.Crude oil processing declined. In April, the industrial crude oil processing volume above the designated size was 58.79 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 3.3%, and an increase of 1.3% in March; The average daily processing is 1.96 million tons.From January to April, the industrial crude oil processing volume above the designated size was 241.26 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.1%. On May 15, Evergain New Materials, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Evergreen Technology, plans to invest in the construction of a new polymer material production base.The total planned long-term investment of the project is about 10 billion yuan, which will be implemented in three phases.It is planned to build an annual production capacity of 80,000 tons of trimellitic anhydride, 10,000 tons of trimellitricarboxylic acid, 110,000 tons of cumene series products, 80,000 tons of (m/p) hydroquinone, 20,000 tons of m-cresol, 20,000 tons of aromatic tertary alcohols, 5,000 tons of 3,4 dimethylbenzaldehyde, 20,000 tons of methylisobutylmethanol and co-products.