June PMI signals weakness
By Chen Jia in Beijing and Yu Ran in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-06-21 07:31
A worker assembles a tunneling machine at a China Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co Ltd plant in Zhengzhou, Henan province. Deteriorating external demand and moderating domestic demand have dragged down the country's factory activities in May, according to HSBC. Zhang Yupeng / For China Daily |
Slack external and domestic demand blamed
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