More than three months after the Chinese economy was shut down to contain the spread of coronavirus, new sentiment surveys released on Thursday offered a snapshot of how uneven the recovery has been. For exporters, the worst of the downturn remains ahead, the polling suggests, while the great effort to restart the economy has left people in the service sector feeling better than the industrial base. There was also fresh evidence to suggest that Beijing is turning to its favoured playbook of old to lift the economy, with firms in the construction sector the most buoyant of all. But in this comprehensive window on the ... (full story)