Industrial output recovers in August

Industrial value added output witnessed better-than-expected growth in September, as efforts to promote industrial upgrades continued to bear fruit, data showed.

The indicator, measuring activities of large-scale enterprises, went up by 6.6 percent in September from a year earlier, compared with a 6 percent increase in August, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday.

The figure grew by 6.7 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of this year, faster than the 6 percent increase a year ago, data showed.