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An employee wearing a self-made cardboard mask works inside a bicycle factory in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, June 9, 2013.
This is a preliminary measure of the official survey (which will come at the beginning of August) which gives us a look at the state of the country's economic and manufacturing sectors.
Chinese manufacturing PMI hit a 16-month high of 51.0 back in August.
We'll have the number here life momentarily.