{"id":13875,"date":"2023-04-18T02:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/chinas-march-industrial-output\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T02:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T02:05:49","slug":"chinas-march-industrial-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/chinas-march-industrial-output\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s March industrial output rises 3.9%; retail sales up 10.6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211;     China&#8217;s industrial output rose 3.9% in March year-on-year, official data showed on Tuesday, accelerating from a 2.4% increase in the first two months but missing expectations slightly amid a post-COVID economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales rose 10.6%, beating forecasts for a 7.4% increase by a large margin. It was also faster than the 3.5% increase in January-February. <\/p>\n<p>Fixed asset investment in January-March slowed to 5.1% growth year-on-year, versus expectations for a 5.7% increase. It grew 5.5% in the January-February period.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese policymakers have pledged to step up support for the world&#8217;s second-largest economy this year after dismantling  COVID-19 curbs in December.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Joe Cash, Qiaoyi Li and Ellen Zhang; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/chinas-march-industrial-output\/employee-works-at-a-factory-of-the-zhejiang-headway-communication\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H01I-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H01I-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s industrial output rose 3.9% in March year-on-year, official data showed on Tuesday, accelerating from a 2.4% increase in the first two months but missing expectations slightly amid a post-COVID economic recovery. Retail sales rose 10.6%, beating forecasts for a 7.4% increase by a large margin. It was also faster than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H01I-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13877,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}