China's March industrial output rises 3.9%

China's value-added industrial output — a gauge of activity in manufacturing, mining and utilities sectors — grew by 3.9 percent in March from a year earlier, figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday.

That was 1.5 percentage points faster than the number in Jan-Feb period, indicating that the recovery of China's industrial economy is picking up pace.

The number in the first quarter stood at 3.0 percent, 0.3 percentage points faster than the fourth quarter of the previous year.