{"id":259685,"date":"2025-12-31T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259685\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:04:11","slug":"chinas-factory-activity-breaks-8-month-contraction-but-headwinds-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259685\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factory activity breaks 8-month contraction, but headwinds persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s factory activity returned to expansionary territory in December \u2013 beating market expectations to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/economic-indicators\/article\/3334657\/chinas-factory-activity-contracts-november-8th-month-row?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=subsection?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">end an eight-month contraction<\/a> \u2013 but analysts said it might be premature to view the rebound as a sign of sustained stabilisation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The manufacturing purchasing managers\u2019 index (PMI) stood at 50.1 in December, up from 49.2 the previous month, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The reading exceeded a projection of 49.6 from economists polled by the financial data provider Wind.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The monthly index compiles survey data given by supply chain managers from a variety of sectors. A reading above 50 suggests expansion, while one below 50 indicates contraction.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBoth production and demand rebounded significantly,\u201d said Huo Lihui, chief statistician at the bureau\u2019s service industry survey centre.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She added that stockpiling ahead of the holidays had bolstered the outlook for certain food and beverage-related industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factory activity returned to expansionary territory in December \u2013 beating market expectations to end an eight-month contraction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1793,79,117689,381,133996,133994,179,18,133998,20366,19,17,133995,9408,114027,133997,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-259685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central-economic-work-conference","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinas-exports","13":"tag-consumption-growth","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-finance-minister-lan-foan","17":"tag-goldman-sachs","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-manufacturing-pmi","21":"tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","22":"tag-new-orders-sub-index","23":"tag-real-estate-sector","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115813853675295517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}