Archive · 1 Dec 2025

China's Factory Activity Shrinks in November

China's Factory Activity Shrinks in November

China's factories are having a tough time.

They've been shrinking for eight months now, and in November, the services part of the economy also started to slow down.

This is making it hard for the people in charge to decide whether to make big changes to help the economy or to give it a quick boost.

The problem is that the world economy is slow, there's a big problem with real estate, and local governments have a lot of debt.

They know they need to make changes to fix these problems, but they also know it will be hard and might cause some political issues, especially with the trade war with the U.S. making things even tougher.

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