China economy
Official data showed China's value-added industrial output rose 5.6 percent year on year in the first four months of 2026. Growth in April reached 4.1 percent from a year earlier.
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Four years after Shanghai’s strict lockdown, the city’s expat community shows signs of slow recovery. French and German consulates report stable or increasing local expat numbers, but US and Japanese populations lag. DirectHR data shows the foreign population at nearly 92,000 in 2024, far below the 2015 peak of 178,000.
The People’s Bank of China has named continued stability of capital markets a priority for 2026 amid a global sell-off driven by worries over the Iran war. The statement was published on Thursday as the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 1.39 per cent.