CCTV News: In January, affected by factors such as the Spring Festival holiday and the concentrated return of corporate employees, various infrastructure projects across the country gradually slowed down. However, the latest data released by the "CCTV Financial Excavator Index" on February 17 showed that some regions and various types of mechanical equipment still rose against the trend.

In January 2025, the national construction machinery operation rate was 39.62%, and the six provinces of Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hainan and Hubei exceeded 60%.

From the specific equipment, port equipment performed particularly well, with the total working hours of port equipment nationwide increasing by 29.71% month-on-month, and 26.84% year-on-year.

In January, under the leadership of the 9th Asian Winter Games, infrastructure projects in the Northeast remained hot. The comprehensive operating rate was 28.39%, an increase of 7.41% year-on-year. Among them, the operating rate of port equipment is 64.88%, and the operating rate of crawler cranes is 58.26%.