Profits of China's major industrial firms increased 8.5 percent year on year in 2016, reversing a 2.3 percent decline registered in 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.
Those companies reported an 8.5 percent profit increase in 2016, reversing a 2.3 percent decline registered in 2015, the NBS said in a statement.
NBS statistician He Ping said industrial firms showed remarkable improvement in performance, featuring a rise of 5.97 percent in their profitability.
In December, their profits grew 2.3 percent year on year, slowing down by 12.2 percentage points from the November figure.
