The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose slightly to 49.7 last month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, in contraction but still an improvement over the 49.3 reading in July.
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Beijing has made a flurry of pledges to revive the economy, but not cash handouts to consumers that fuelled post-pandemic recoveries in the US and elsewhere.
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