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As China Reopens, Factories Fire up but Jobs Gloom Keeps Consumers at Home

Industrial production climbed 3.9 percent in April from a year earlier.
Factory workers in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province | Source: Getty Images
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BEIJING, China —

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