Steady Growth
China fully returned to normal social and economic operation in April, with multiple output and demand indicators registering faster growth, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed.
Value-added industrial output went up 5.6 percent year on year, 1.7 percentage points higher than in March.
In particular, the production of new-energy vehicles and solar cells surged 85.4 percent and 69.1 percent year on year, respectively.
Retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country’s consumption strength, surged 18.4 percent year on year to nearly 3.5 trillion yuan ($500.6 billion).
The production index of the services sector rose 13.5 percent