China’s State Council Information Office has issued statistics which show the added value of industrial enterprises posting 3.4% year-on-year growth to $2.4 trillion in the first half of the year. After lockdowns earlier in 2022 saw a decline with April down 2.9% year-on-year, a V-shaped recovery occurred in June. The country’s 3.4% manufacturing sector growth is higher than the overall economy’s performance, which reached 2.5%. Manufacturing has grown to 28.8% of the economy, up from 26% in mid-2021. Manufacturing investment grew 10.4% year-on-year in H1 2022, with 7.4% of the growth occurring in Q2 – almost double the figure for fixed-asset investment. Another standout figure was total exported goods, which grew by 13.2% to $1.65 trillion. Within renewable energy manufacturing…