Profit pick-up doesn’t signal overcapacity being resolved
The recent pick-up in industrial profit growth is not a sign that excess capacity in China’s manufacturing sector is being meaningfully resolved. Strong profit growth is concentrated in a few sectors and has been driven by global shocks, rather than a significant rebalancing of domestic supply and demand.
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