China Factory-Price Optimism Surges But Not Everyone's Convinced
A worker walks past a furnace at a steel plant in China's northern Hebei province.
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China’s drive to slash excess industrial capacity in industries from steel to aluminum is bearing fruit, helping expectations for factory inflation jump to the highest in eight months in August.