BEIJING: China’s industrial output and retail sales growth accelerated in August, government statistics showed on Tuesday, with both of them exceeding expectations in encouraging signs for the world’s second-largest economy.

Industrial production rose 6.3 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, faster than July’s 6.0 percent and above the median forecast of 6.2 percent in a Bloomberg News poll of economists.

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