BEIJING: China’s industrial output growth held steady in January and February, official data showed Tuesday, providing further evidence of stability in the world’s second-largest economy despite slower retail sales growth.

Industrial output rose 6.3 percent year-on-year in the first two months of 2017, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, slightly beating the 6.2 forecast in a Bloomberg News survey.

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