According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to March 2019, the output of ten kinds of non-ferrous metals in China was 1369,000 tons, an increase of 6.3% over the same period last year. Among them, the output of refined copper was 2.045 million tons, an increase of 8.8%, the output of raw aluminium was 8.567 million tons, an increase of 3.9%, the output of refined lead was 1.429 million tons, an increase of 32.6%, and the output of zinc was 1.36 million tons, a decrease of 5.1%. Alumina output was 18.248 million tons, an increase of 11.1% over the same period last year. Copper output was 3661,000 tons, up 14.4% year-on-year; aluminium output was 104,030,000 tons, up 10.2% year-on-year.

According to the data of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, in March 2019, the average spot price of copper in the domestic market was 49,750 yuan/ton, down 6.2% year on year; the average spot price of aluminium was 13,920 yuan/ton, down 4.3% year on year; the average spot price of lead was 16,960 yuan/ton, basically the same as the same period last year; and the average spot price of zinc was 23,550 yuan/ton, down 2.1% year on year.

From January to March 2019, China imported 118,000 tons of unwrought rolled copper and copper, a decrease of 4.3% compared with the same period last year.