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Industrial Production and Investment in Manufacturing Buoy Growth in Q1

Key Takeaways

  • ​China’s economy surpassed expectations in the first quarter, growing at a rate of 5.3 percent year-on-year, comfortably exceeding the 4.6 percent increase forecasted by a Reuters poll of economists.
  • Supply-side factors, including industrial production and investment in the manufacturing sector, continued to drive China’s economy in the first quarter, more so than domestic consumption.
  • President Xi Jinping and top party officials will deliberate economic policies at the Third Plenum, scheduled for July.

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