Industrial output to see stable expansion in Q4

Rising costs, slack demand set to constrain manufacturing growth

Industrial output will maintain stable expansion in the fourth quarter, although the risk of slowing growth continues to weigh on the economy, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday.

"While there is growing downward pressure, the country's industrial production is improving and we estimate that growth will maintain stability in the fourth quarter," Zheng Lixin, the ministry's spokesman, told a news conference in Beijing.