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In addition to putting more resources into both China's services trade and manufacturing sectors in the coming years, the company will start to run new robotics factories in Shanghai next year.

In September, the sub-index for production stood at 54, up 0.5 points month on month, while that for new orders rose 0.8 points to 52.8.

Passenger vehicle sales went up 5.3 percent in the month, while commercial vehicles including buses and trucks surged 59.6 percent, the association said.

The growth of CPI in June is expected to grow 0.1 percentage point to 2.5 percent from a month earlier, said Securities Daily, citing Lu Zhengwei, chief economist at the Industrial Bank.

The expansion of the country's manufacturing sector in June was mainly supported by the improving market supply and demand, price rebound and the recovery of external orders.