{"id":1039619,"date":"2026-09-30T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039619"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:30:54","slug":"china-factory-activity-returns-to-growth-in-september-as-ai-boom-supports-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/china-factory-activity-returns-to-growth-in-september-as-ai-boom-supports-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"China factory activity returns to growth in September as AI boom supports industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: China&#8217;s factory activity returned to growth in September, an official survey showed on Wednesday, as easing weather disruptions allowed factories to resume operations and a global artificial intelligence boom supported the industrial sector. <\/p>\n<p>The official manufacturing purchasing managers&#8217; index (PMI) rose to 50.1 from 49.8 in August, ending two straight months of contraction, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That matched the median forecast of 50.1 in a Reuters poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: China&#8217;s factory activity returned to growth in September, an official survey showed on Wednesday, as easing weather disruptions allowed factories to resume operations and a global artificial intelligence boom supported the industrial sector. The official manufacturing purchasing managers&#8217; index (PMI) rose to 50.1 from 49.8 in August, ending two straight months of contraction, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That matched the median forecast of 50.1 in a Reuters poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039646,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039619\/revisions\/1039646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}