China manufacturing sector falls into contraction

A worker welds a bicycle steel rim at a factory manufacturing sports equipment in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. The manufacturing sector in China slipped intocontraction territory in November, the latest survey from Caixinrevealed on Wednesday with a manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) score of 49.9. That’s down from 50.6 in October and it falls beneath the boom-or-bust line of 50 that separates expansion from contraction. — dpa