{"id":41257,"date":"2022-01-31T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/rise-in-covid-cases-slows-manufacturing-in-china-to-weakest-in-two-years"},"modified":"2022-01-31T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:09:09","slug":"rise-in-covid-cases-slows-manufacturing-in-china-to-weakest-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41257","title":{"rendered":"Rise in Covid cases slows manufacturing in China to weakest in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Output is contracting as Beijing\u2019s tough pandemic measures force some factories to shut down<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Output from China\u2019s manufacturing sector <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/europe\/chinas-jan-factory-activity-contracts-covid-lockdowns-bite-caixin-pmi-2022-01-30\/\">slowed to its weakest in almost two years<\/a> in January as the country\u2019s tough anti-Covid measures forced factories into temporary shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>A monthly snapshot of industry in the world\u2019s second biggest economy showed production being hard hit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/beijing-seals-off-several-communities-over-two-cases-of-covid-19\">Beijing\u2019s zero-tolerance approach<\/a> to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/rise-in-covid-cases-slows-manufacturing-in-china-to-weakest-in-two-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Output is contracting as Beijing\u2019s tough pandemic measures force some factories to shut downCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOutput from China\u2019s manufacturing sector slowed to its weakest in almost two years in January as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,1066,437,1175,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-economics","category-manufacturing-sector","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41258,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41257\/revisions\/41258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}