BEIJING: China’s industrial profits increased at a faster pace in the first two months of the year despite pressures from a complicated and grim economic situation at home and abroad, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said.
Experts said the pickup in pace was mainly driven by larger profits registered by upstream companies, while midstream and downstream ones, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, still face challenges to profit growth.
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