5月份财新服务业PMI继续下跌

China’s services sector growth weakened for a second month running in May, according to results from an independent survey.

根据一家独立调查机构的调查结果，5月份中国服务业部门的增长连续第二个月疲软。

The Caixin-Markit services purchasing managers index dropped 0.5 per cent from the previous month to 51.2 in May, closer to the 50-point mark separating growth from contraction. The latest figure from the gauge, which focuses on smaller, private firms, came in close to a point below the May reading from the official survey, which tracks activity primarily at large and often state-run firms.

5月份，财新中国服务业经营活动指数(Caixin-Markit services PMI)比上一个月下跌了0.6个百分点至51.2，距离50的荣枯线更近了一步。该指标的这一最新读数，差不多比5月份官方调查得出的读数低了一个百分点。财新这一读数主要关注规模较小的民营企业，而官方调查则主要跟踪研究大型国有企业的经营活动。

The headline figure’s fall reflected concomitant sluggishness in growth of new orders received by service providers. While services firms notched another month of expanding employment, the rate of growth was marginal and some companies reported restructuring plans had put the brakes on new hires in May.

这一倍受关注的读数的下跌，反映出与这一下跌相伴随的，是服务提供商所获新订单增长疲软。尽管服务业企业录得又一个月的用工增长，增长速度却已达极限。部分企业则报告称，5月份因重组计划而停止了对新员工的招募。

Input prices continued to rise for services providers at a modest speed, prompting companies to raise their own prices at around the same rate seen in April. But their business outlook for the next twelve months dropped to its lowest level for the year to date, with only around 19 per cent of those surveyed expecting activity to increase over the next year.

服务业供应商的成本继续小幅增加，促使企业提高了产出价格，加价幅度与4月份持平。不过，对未来12个月的前景，企业的信心跌至今年以来最低，只有大约19%的被调查企业预计今后一年业务活动会增加。