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Chinese factory activity rebounds, adding to recovery signs

FILE - Workers wearing face masks assembly machinery parts at SMC, a Japanese pneumatic engineering company factory in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2023. Chinese factory activity rebounded in January from three months of contraction, adding to signs the world’s second-largest economy might be recovering from a painful slump, an official survey showed Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

FILE - A worker loads boxes of goods from a truck outside a wholesale clothing mall in Beijing on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Chinese factory activity rebounded in January from three months of contraction, adding to signs the world’s second-largest economy might be recovering from a painful slump, an official survey showed Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

FILE - Workers wearing face masks sew fabrics at a textile factory in Huimin county in east China's Shandong province on Oct. 25, 2022. Chinese factory activity rebounded in January from three months of contraction, adding to signs the world’s second-largest economy might be recovering from a painful slump, an official survey showed Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (Chinatopix Via AP, File)

Chinese factory activity rebounds, adding to recovery signs