Beijing

PROFITS in China's industrial sector rose at the fastest pace in three years as the world's second biggest economy showed more signs of stabilising, though some private forecasters said that the improvement may be more fleeting than real.

Profits of industrial firms in August jumped 19.5 per cent from a year earlier to 534.8 billion yuan (S$109.1 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. That was the largest increase since August 2013.