At present, the calcium carbide market is temporarily stable in Shaanxi, without remarkable changes in the mainstream transaction price. At this stage, while the mainstream ex-factory price of local first-grade calcium carbide is 3350-3600 yuan/ton, a few transactions have concluded through flexible adjustment. As the semi-coke market is temporarily stable after the decline, calcium carbide manufacturers also see slight sales improvement following the price reduction in the early stage. Consequently, with the inventory pressure alleviated, those carbide producers become less willing to keep the price further down. At the same time, when the downstream PVC enterprises hold a large stock of goods in trucks to be unloaded, their demand is not likely to grow in a short period of time, thus leaving the market stuck in deadlock.