China’s manufacturing activity fell to a six-month low in April as lockdowns continued in Shanghai and other manufacturing hubs in an attempt to stem COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a survey released Saturday.
People line up for COVID-19 tests at a testing site in an office complex in Beijing, Friday, April 29, 2022. BEIJING —
The domestic COVID-19 outbreaks have impacted China’s factory activities and market demand, said the bureau's statistician Zhao Qinghe. Shanghai, China’s most populous city, spent weeks in April under lockdown. The capital, Beijing, began mass testing millions of residents this week. According to the statistics bureau, non-manufacturing business activity also fell 6.5 percentage points to 41.9.
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