In March, the manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) was 50.8%, an increase of 1.7 percentage points from the previous month. In terms of enterprise size, the PMI of large, medium and small enterprises was 51.1%, 50.6% and 50.3% respectively, all above the critical point.
Among the five sub-indices that make up the manufacturing PMI, the production index, new order index and supplier delivery time index are higher.