China Commodity Prices: Steel, Coal, Metals & Chemicals (NBS)

Get official Chinese wholesale prices for 50 key production materials as clean JSON, straight from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (国家统计局, NBS), which surveys them across the country for every ten-day period. No login, no Chinese needed: every product has an English name.

Group	Products
Steel	rebar, wire rod, medium plate, hot-rolled coil, seamless pipe, angle steel
Non-ferrous metals	copper, aluminium, lead, zinc
Chemicals	sulphuric acid, caustic soda, methanol, benzene, ethanol, polyethylene (LLDPE), polypropylene, acetic acid, butadiene rubber, polyester filament, lithium iron phosphate
Oil and gas	LNG, LPG, gasoline, diesel, paraffin wax
Coal	anthracite, Shanxi thermal coal, coking coal, metallurgical coke
Building and solar materials	cement, float glass, polysilicon
Farm products	rice, wheat, corn, cotton, live hogs, soybeans, soybean meal, peanuts, white sugar
Farm inputs	urea, phosphate and potash fertilizer, compound fertilizer, glyphosate
Forest products	natural rubber, wood pulp, corrugated paper

Each price comes with the change from the previous ten-day period (in yuan and in %), the product specification (e.g. rebar Φ20mm HRB400E, thermal coal 5,500 kcal) and the unit.

Use cases

• Commodity and macro research: track Chinese steel, coal and chemical prices, a leading indicator for construction, manufacturing and global commodity demand.
• Procurement and supply chain: benchmark what you pay for steel, copper, plastics, fertilizer or paper in China.
• Trading and risk: compare spot prices with futures, or watch input costs for an industry.
• Dashboards: schedule a run every ten days with Only new releases on and get each new release once.

Example input

The latest release, all 50 products:

{}

Steel and coal for the last six periods (about two months):

{
  "latestPeriods": 6,
  "groups": ["ferrous", "coal"]
}

Copper and methanol since 2024: { "products": ["copper", "methanol"], "dateFrom": "2024-01-01" }

Output

{
  "type": "commodityPrice",
  "period": "2026-10-2",
  "periodLabel": "2026年10月中旬",
  "periodStart": "2026-10-11",
  "periodEnd": "2026-10-20",
  "group": "黑色金属",
  "groupEnglish": "Ferrous metals",
  "product": "螺纹钢",
  "productEnglish": "Rebar",
  "spec": "Φ20mm，HRB400E",
  "priceCny": 3187.8,
  "unit": "CNY/tonne",
  "change": 11.9,
  "changePct": 0.4,
  "previousPeriod": "2026-09-3"
}

• period is the year, month and ten-day part: -1 for days 1 to 10 (上旬), -2 for days 11 to 20 (中旬), -3 for the rest of the month (下旬).
• Prices are in yuan per tonne, except live hogs (yuan per kg).
• Specifications are kept as published (in Chinese), since they define exactly which grade is priced; a few have changed over the years.

Release schedule

NBS publishes each period about three working days after it ends, so a new release appears around the 4th, 14th and 24th of each month.

Pricing

$0.001 per price. One full release (50 prices) costs $0.05; a year of one product (36 periods) about $0.04.

Notes and limits

• History back to November 2021. Older periods are found by walking the NBS release list, so a long range takes a minute or two to start.
• Official figures as published by NBS; this Actor does not calculate any prices.
• Only public data is collected.

Related

• China Fuel Prices by Province, Shanghai Gold Exchange Prices and China Shipping & Freight Indexes.

中文说明

国家统计局“流通领域重要生产资料市场价格变动情况”：螺纹钢、热轧卷板、电解铜、铝锭、煤炭、焦炭、液化天然气、甲醇、水泥、玻璃、多晶硅、玉米、豆粕、尿素等 50 种产品，每旬发布一次，含与上期相比的涨跌和涨跌幅，可取最新一期或 2021 年 11 月以来的历史。按结果计费，可在 Apify 上直接运行或通过 API 调用，也可设置定时任务。有问题或需要新字段，请在 Issues 页面留言（中文、英文均可）。

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