Chinese Manufacturing Weakens, Adding to Economic Pressure

Chinese Manufacturing Weakens, Adding to Economic Pressure
A worker operates a machine for knitting socks in a factory in Funan county in central China's Anhui province on March 1, 2022. Chinatopix via AP
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BEIJING—Chinese manufacturing weakened in October, an official survey showed Monday, adding to downward pressure on the economy as the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries to reverse a slowdown.

A monthly purchasing managers’ index declined to 49.2 from September’s 50.1 on a 100-point scale where numbers below 50 indicate activity contracting, according to the CCP’s statistics bureau and an official industry group.