On October 15, the Department of Circulation Industry Development of the Ministry of Commerce and the China Building Materials Circulation Association jointly released information showing that the sales of building materials and home furnishing stores above designated size nationwide in September were 99.213 billion yuan, a month-on-month increase of 14.97% and a year-on-year decrease of 15.30%; The cumulative sales from January to September were 945.874 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.35%. According to the Industry Research Department of the China Building Materials Circulation Association, in September, with the subsidence of high temperature weather, the national building materials and home furnishing market entered the traditional peak sales season. The market did not appear, and the increase of BHI was lower than expected.