China November industrial profits fall 1.4 percent year-on-year

Profits declined 1.9 percent in the first 11 months of the year compared with the same period a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on its website.

Profits fell 4.6 percent in October from a year earlier.

(Reporting by Winni Zhou and Norihiko Shirouzu; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)