中国最近公布，采购经理人指数这一重要经济指标出现了改善，该指数4月份升至了53.5，高于3月份的52.4。

One of the recent headline figures indicating improvement in China is the Purchasing Managers Index, which rose to 53.5 in April, up from 52.4 in March.

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企业采购经理人调查数据、有关全球货运价格的波罗的海干散货航运指数等领先指标在2008年底的时候直线下跌，而最近已经开始回升，虽然只是小幅上扬。

Leading indicators such as surveys of corporate purchasing managers and the Baltic Dry Index of global shipping costs were in free-fall in late 2008, but have recently turned up, if only slightly.

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一个密切关注制造和服务业的计量指标—采购经理人指数在十月从46.9下降至43.6，这是其创立十年来的最低点。

In October the purchasing managers' index, a closely watched gauge of activity in manufacturing and service industries, dived from 46.9 to 43.6, a nadir for the ten-year-old survey.

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