{"id":169788,"date":"2025-09-30T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169788\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:23:07","slug":"chinas-factory-activity-declines-into-sixth-month-longest-slump-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169788\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Factory Activity Declines Into Sixth Month, Longest Slump Since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s factory activity improved slightly but extended its decline into a sixth month \u2014 the longest slump since 2019 \u2014 with the economy at risk of a slowdown after a growth spurt to start the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/CPMINDX:\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">official manufacturing purchasing managers\u2019 index<\/a> was 49.8, versus 49.4 in August, the National Bureau of Statistics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.gov.cn\/sj\/zxfbhjd\/202509\/t20250930_1961438.html\" title=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">said<\/a> Tuesday. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 49.6. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factory activity improved slightly but extended its decline into a sixth month \u2014 the longest slump since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13514,84,891,10979,5343,2343,4229,1294,144,35557,10980,467,4984,387,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-169788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-business","tag-china","tag-construction","tag-culture","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-greater-china","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-markets","tag-property-market","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}