Profits at industrial firms in China declined 22.9% in the first two months of 2023 from the year before, official data showed on Monday, as the factory sector struggles to claw its way out of the slump caused by COVID-related disruptions.
The contraction followed a 4.0% fall in industrial profits for the whole of 2022, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, pointing to a downbeat start to the year for factories at large.
Industrial profit numbers cover firms with annual revenues of at least 20 million yuan from their main operations. The Monday data follows a flurry of economic indicators that show an uneven road to recovery from a bruising three-year battle against the pandemic.While
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