Retail sales jumped 18.4%, missing forecasts for a 21.0% increase. It was significantly faster than the 10.6% increase in March and marked the quickest growth since March 2021. Fixed asset investment expanded 4.7% in the first four months of 2023 from the same period a year earlier, versus expectations for a 5.5% rise. It grew 5.1% in the January-March period. (Reporting by Albee Zhang, Ellen Zhang and Joe Cash Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) - China's industrial output
grew 5.6% in April from a year earlier, official data showed on
Tuesday, missing expectations by a large margin but accelerating
from a 3.9% gain seen in March.
The data, released by the National Bureau of Statistics,
lagged a 10.9% increase seen in a Reuters poll of analysts but
it was the quickest growth since September 2022, largely due to
the recoil effect from the contraction suffered last April when
the commercial hub Shanghai was under stringent COVID lockdown.
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