AI Data Insight
China's industrial product sales rate reached 97.0% in August 2026, slightly rebounding from 96.8% in July, indicating a marginal improvement in the linkage between production and sales. Although overall industrial value-added and foreign trade exports performed strongly, domestic retail sales data remained weak, reflecting a structural divergence of "hot outside, cold inside." In the future, the balance between production and sales will still face the test of domestic demand recovery.