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Census shows industrial drop-off, service sector gains

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On Wednesday, the government released the results of China’s national economic census – covering the period from 2013 to 2018.
The results were interesting, but not unexpected:

The number of people employed in secondaryindustries(i.e. industry and manufacturing) decreased by 10.4%over the past five...