Guangzhou (JLC), July 1, 2024 – China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) stayed flat after falling into contraction in May, indicating that the factory activity shrank for a second consecutive month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed.
The manufacturing PMI remained at 49.5% in June, the NBS data showed.
A breakdown of June’s manufacturing PMI showed that the sub-index for production stood at 50.6%, a month-on-month drop of 0.2 percentage points, signaling that the production activity grew at a slower pace.
The sub-index for new orders fell to 49.5% in June, indicating that the market demand eased somewhat, the NBS data showed.
Meanwhile, the sub-index for raw material inventories came in at 47.6%, dropping 0.2 percentage points from the month before. The sub-index for employment remained unchanged from May, standing at 48.1% in June, while the sub-index for distributor delivery time stood at 49.5%, down 0.6 percentage points month on month.
Non-manufacturing index down
China’s non-manufacturing commercial index came in at 50.5% in June, down from 51.1% in May, suggesting that the non-manufacturing sector expanded at a slower pace, the NBS data indicated.
The commercial activity index for construction stood at 52.3%, down 2.1 percentage points month on month. The commercial activity index for services came in at 50.2%, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous month, the NBS data showed.
The commercial activity indexes for air transport, postal services, broadcasting and television, satellite transmission services, monetary financial services, and insurance were all above 55% in June, suggesting high prosperity for these sectors.
However, the index for the property sector was still below the 50% mark, the NBS said.
