{"id":447081,"date":"2021-11-02T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447081"},"modified":"2021-11-02T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T05:32:17","slug":"chinas-economy-weakens-as-power-crunch-covid-rules-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-economy-weakens-as-power-crunch-covid-rules-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economy weakens as power crunch, Covid rules hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: China\u2019s economy showed signs of further weakness in October as power shortages and surging commodity prices weighed on manufacturing, while strict Covid controls put a brake on holiday spending.<br \/>\nThe official manufacturing purchasing managers\u2019 index fell to 49.2, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday, the second month it was below the key 50-mark that signals a contraction in production.<br \/>\nThe non-manufacturing gauge, which measures activity in the construction and services sectors, dropped to 52.4, below the consensus forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: China\u2019s economy showed signs of further weakness in October as power shortages and surging commodity prices weighed on manufacturing, while strict Covid controls put a brake on holiday spending. The official manufacturing purchasing managers\u2019 index fell to 49.2, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday, the second month it was below the key 50-mark that signals a contraction in production. The non-manufacturing gauge, which measures activity in the construction and services sectors, dropped to 52.4, below the consensus forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}