A reporter learned from the Provincial Economic and Information Commission that from January to June, the province's building materials industry accumulated 28.34 billion yuan in value added, up 18.3% year on year, 3.8 percentage points higher than the province's industrial sector above designated size. The growth rate of industrial value added was noticeably better than the provincial average, and industry profitability was noticeably better than last year.

　　Since the beginning of this year, the province's building materials industry has taken steady growth as its starting point and overcome unfavorable factors such as slowing market demand, declining production growth, low prices for major products, and continued increases in the cost of important production factors, achieving steady and relatively rapid growth. Output of key products and key enterprises maintained relatively high growth. From January to June, the province produced a total of 55.55 million tons of cement, up 16.7%; and 16.435 million weight boxes of flat glass, up 48.4%. Conch Group completed output value of 30.08 billion yuan, up 8.6% year on year, producing 125 million tons of cement and 233,600 tons of PVC profiles.

　　Main business revenue continued to grow, and industry profitability improved noticeably. In the first five months, building materials enterprises above designated size in the province achieved cumulative sales revenue of 66.4 billion yuan, up 17.2% year on year; realized profits of 4.088 billion yuan, up 2.4% year on year, 42.3 percentage points higher than last year; paid taxes of 2.196 billion yuan, up 9.7% year on year, 8.9 percentage points higher than last year; and the total losses of loss-making enterprises were 380 million yuan, up 20.5% year on year, 67 percentage points lower than last year. However, affected by factors such as market supply and demand, overcapacity, and the macroeconomy, operating pressure on enterprises increased. In the first half of the year, the building materials industry completed fixed asset investment of 35.54 billion yuan, up 8.7% year on year, completing only 35.3% of the annual plan.