According to the Liaoning Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics, in September 2025, the Producer Price Index (PPI) for industrial producers in Liaoning decreased by 3.1% year-on-year, a reduction of 1.4 percentage points compared to the previous month. Month-on-month, the index shifted from a 0.1% increase last month to a 0.4% decrease this month. Similarly, the Industrial Purchase Price Index (IPI) saw a year-on-year decline of 4.9%, narrowing by 1.2 percentage points from the last month. Month-on-month, it increased by 0.2%, but the growth rate slowed down by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month.
In terms of the two major categories: the price of production materials dropped by 1.4% year-on-year in September. In this category, the extraction industry fell by 5.3%, raw materials industry by 2.1%, and processing industry by 0.4%. Meanwhile, the price of living materials decreased by 10.4% year-on-year, with durable consumer goods down by 17.3%, food by 4.6%, general daily necessities by 2.6%, and clothing by 1.3%.
In September, the purchase prices of nine major raw materials exhibited a trend of "two increases and seven decreases" year-on-year. Among these, nonferrous metals and wires rose by 1.4%, while textile raw materials saw a slight increase of 0.1%. Conversely, prices of wood and pulp declined by 0.2%, other industrial raw materials and semi-finished products by 0.9%, construction materials and non-metallics by 2.6%, ferrous metals by 4.8%, chemical raw materials by 7.8%, fuel and power by 8.2%, and agricultural by-products by 9.6%.