China’s Manufacturing, Services Sectors Weaken in January

China’s Manufacturing, Services Sectors Weaken in January
Workers move boxes of computers on a street of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Jan. 16, 2021. Ng Han Guan/AP
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BEIJING—An official indicator of China’s manufacturing activity weakened for a second consecutive month in January, following outbreaks of domestic COVID-19 cases that affected the operations of some industries.

The purchasing managers’ index, or PMI, for China’s manufacturing sector fell to 51.3 in January, down 0.6 percentage points from December 2020, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Sunday.