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Article: GROWTH MOMENTUM OF CHINA'S BUILDING MATERIALS INDUSTRY TO CONTINUE IN 2004.
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- February 24, 2004
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BEIJING, Feb 24 Asia Pulse - China's building materials industry will continue its momentum of growth from 2003 to 2004, with prices of main building materials to fluctuate slightly on the basis of the level of the previous year, according to participants attending the recent annual meeting held by the China Building Materials Association in Beijing.
The outbreak of SARS in early 2003 did not stop the fast growth of the building materials industry.
Building materials industry realized 128.35 billion yuan (US$15.51 billion) in added value in the first 11 months of 2003, rising 25.1 per cent or 10.4 percentage points higher than in the same period of the ...