BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- China's Index of Services Production increased 2.3 percent year on year in June as economic activities continued to recover, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Thursday.

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The pace is 1.3 percentage points faster than the growth in May, according to the NBS.

In the first half of 2020, the Index of Services Production dropped 6.1 percent from the same period last year, 5.6 percentage points slower than the decline in the first quarter, the NBS said.