A worker assembles a machine in a workshop in Xingtai, in northern Hebei province, February 19, 2020. China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, fell by 8.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, as the new coronavirus outbreak dealt a huge blow to industrial production, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed today. In the first two months, industrial production shrank by 13.5 percent, the weakest reading since the early 1990s.

Source: The Standard April 17, 2020 02:29 UTC