(Yicai Global) July 15 --  China's industrial output expanded by 6.0 percent in the first half,  according to official data. The figure is stronger than what Yicai  Global's survey done with chief economists suggests. 

The growth of industrial  production was 5.0 percent for the first five months of the year, data  that the National Bureau of Statistics published earlier show. The pace of  expansion was 6.7 percent in the same period of last year. 

A survey of 22 chief  economists of China's major financial institutions predicted, on  average, that the growth would be 5.23 percent in the first six months  of the year.

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