BEIJING Mousa Dembele Belgie Shirt , Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- China's manufacturing sector expanded at a slower pace in January, official data showed Wednesday.
The country's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) came in at 51.3 this month, decelerating from 51.6 in December, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below reflects contraction.
The manufacturing PMI has stayed above the boom-bust line for 18 straight months.
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Sub-indices for production and new orders went down slightly to 53.5 and 52.6, respectively, while sub-indices on raw material stock, employees and suppliers' delivery time were still lower than 50.
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Mobile Internet and data usage increased 26.7 percent in 2017, with the monthly average of data consumed by per household reaching 1,775 megabytes, more than double that in 2016, said MIIT chief engineer Zhang Feng.
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Fixed-line broadband network covered 72.5 percent of users by the end of 2017, and over 125 major data centers had been built. In addition, there were breakthroughs in cloud computing, according to the ministry.
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China is the world's second largest home for "unicorn firms" -- the country had a total of 58 privately owned companies valued at over 1 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, according to Zhang.
China has said it will target high quality growth, with the service sector and high-tech industries gaining strength.
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