date:Mar 11, 2013
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Producer price data reflected the still mild nature of the recovery, with prices at China's factory gates falling 1.6 percent in February from the year before, compared with a 1.6 percent drop in January.
Month-on-month, factory gate prices rose 0.2 percent in a sign that pricing in China's industrial sector is stabilising as a recovery in the world's No.2 economy gathers pace.
A better sense of broad recovery momentum should come later on Saturday when data for industrial output, fixed a