China's factory-gate prices rose 5.7% in October

China's factory-gate prices rose 5.7% in October compared with the same month last year, and 0.7% from September.

The figures cover industrial goods across the country and were released by China's National Bureau of Statistics.

Factory-gate prices are what producers charge for goods leaving their facilities, while purchase prices track what they pay for inputs.

Prices for production materials drove the increase, rising 7.4% year on year, while prices for consumer goods slipped 0.1%.

Industrial producers paid 7.9% more for inputs than a year earlier, including higher costs for fuel and power, chemicals, and non-ferrous metals.

These figures show that industrial selling prices and input costs were both higher, while prices for many consumer goods were little changed or lower.

The data also show that factory-gate prices averaged 2.7% higher in the first 10 months of 2026 than in the same period a year earlier.