Industry concern
1. On April 18, Secretary General Yao Hengping of Titanium Dioxide Branch of China Coating Industry Association led a team to Inner Mongolia Guocheng resources comprehensive utilization Co., Ltd. for investigation, discussion and exchange. Zhu Jianguo, chairman of Inner Mongolia Guocheng resources comprehensive utilization Co., Ltd., expressed sincere welcome to Secretary General Yao and Deputy Secretary General Fu Yijiang. In the morning, a meeting of management cadres and technical backbones above the middle level was held in the conference room of Guocheng office building.
2. According to Panzhihua vanadium and titanium Trading Center: the mainstream price of 10 titanium concentrate in Panzhihua district is 1390-1450 yuan / ton, excluding tax, and the actual transaction price of some enterprises is about 1350 yuan / ton, so the transaction price is confused; the mainstream price of 20 titanium concentrate is 1450-1500 yuan / ton, excluding tax, excluding factory acceptance; the mainstream price of 45% grade titanium concentrate in Yunnan district is 1150 yuan / ton, excluding tax, excluding factory acceptance; Mo Sanbik titanium concentrate (with reference to kemel, TiO2 ≥ 50%) is delivered at domestic port with tax free quotation of about 260 US dollars / ton; Kenya titanium concentrate (with reference to bass, TiO2 ≥ 49%) is delivered at domestic port with tax free quotation of about 225 US dollars / ton.
3. Researchers at Flinders University in Australia have developed a new coating that can inhibit biological contamination of the hull. It can absorb copper ions from seawater and release them by electric pulse.
4. It is reported that the total investment of the old residential areas that need comprehensive transformation in China's cities and towns can reach 4 trillion yuan, and new opportunities will be ushered in if there is no change in the development momentum of architectural coatings.
5. According to the data, BHI in March was 71.92, up 29.64 points on a month on month basis, down 32.99 points on a year-on-year basis. The sales volume of building materials and home furnishing stores above Designated Size in China in March was 32.85 billion yuan, up 8438.72% month on month, down 63.84% year on year. In the first quarter of 2020, the accumulated sales volume was 93.46 billion yuan, down 53.45% year on year.
6、 Rio expects capex to reach $5 billion to $6 billion in 2020 (down from the previous $7 billion), in part because of the Covid-19 restrictions, while the dollar also has a positive impact on the currency.
Chao Wen briefing
1. 19, according to the Ministry of water resources, up to now, 143 major water conservancy projects have been started, and the investment scale under construction has exceeded 1 trillion yuan. At present, 30 projects have been basically completed and have brought benefits into play, and the allocation of water resources and urban-rural water supply system have been gradually improved.
2, novel coronavirus pneumonia is not easy to get through, even though the market turbulence and new crown pneumonia epidemic are affecting. According to the latest data released by Forbes on the 34th global billionaire list, the number of people on the list and the total wealth will decrease in 2020. In 2020, there are 2095 billionaires on the list, 267 of them are down, less than 2153 in 2019. 1062 of them have lost their wealth, a record number.
3. Old fellow old fellow railway tunnel (old fellow), Jing Guang railway tunnel, is connected to the tunnel 19 days through the 19 day. This is the first super large cross section tunnel across the whole railway line, which marks a significant breakthrough in the construction of the jade grinding section of the Sino Lao railway.
4. Although there is no conclusive research that hydroxychloroquine can resist the new coronavirus, the world has begun to seize hydroxychloroquine and its API. India, as the largest producer of hydroxychloroquine, has banned the export of the drug and its active pharmaceutical ingredients. Finland also only allows the use of hydroxychloroquine APIs in China.
5. The economic loss in the first quarter caused by the epidemic was nearly 3 trillion yuan. Although real estate investment and infrastructure investment recovered rapidly in March, the recovery speed of service industry and consumption was significantly slower than that of investment. Experts: a package of economic recovery plan focusing on stabilizing consumption should be issued as soon as possible to hedge economic losses, avoid large-scale withdrawal of small and micro enterprises, and promote steady economic recovery.
6. Haikou Customs said Monday that from the implementation of the tax-free policy of Hainan Island to the first quarter of this year, the customs supervised and sold 72 million pieces of tax-free products from the island, with a sales amount of 55.07 billion yuan and 16.097 million shoppers.