中国物流与采购联合会、国家统计局服务业调查中心发布的2014年1月份中国制造业采购经理指数(PMI)为50.5%,较上月回落0.5个百分点。指数的回落,在一定程度上受各地化解产能力度加大、春节临近企业减产等短期因素影响。总体上来看,PMI指数自2012年10月份以来一直保持在50%以上,本月虽有回落,但仍保持在去年同期水平以上,显示2014年经济开局走势平缓。工业生产形势基本稳定。生产指数保持在53%,处在相对较高水 China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for January 2014 issued by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and the National Bureau of Statistics Service Industry Research Center was 50.5%, down 0.5 percentage point from the previous month. The fall of the index is partly affected by the short-term factors such as the intensification of capacity-building around the country and the reduction of output by enterprises approaching during the Spring Festival. Overall, the PMI index has remained above 50% since October 2012. Although it has dropped this month, it remained above the level of the same period of last year, indicating that the economic growth in 2014 was flat. The situation in industrial production was basically stable. The production index remained at 53%, at relatively high levels