1st LD: China’s service production expands 7.7 pct in October

BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — China’s service production index went up 7.7 percent year on year in October, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.
The growth rate was 0.8 percentage points faster than the September level, it added.
The sub-reading for accommodation and catering surged by 21.3 percent year on year.
The sub-index tracking the performance of transportation, warehousing and postal services climbed 13.2 percent, while that for the information transmission, software and IT services expanded 10.9 percent, according to the bureau.
In the first ten months, the service production index increased by 7.9 percent year on year.