The U.S. manufacturing sector contracted in December for the 10th consecutive month, said the U.S. Institute for Supply Management (ISM) on Monday.
According to an ISM survey, the country's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) stood at 47.9 percent in December, down 0.3 percentage points from the 48.2 percent recorded in November.
The 47.9 reading was also the lowest since October 2024.
Any reading below 50 percent indicates the manufacturing sector is generally contracting.
U.S. manufacturing PMI contracts for 10th consecutive month in Dec
Over 200,000 vehicles from Hong Kong and Macao have registered for permits to drive in Guangdong Province as of Friday, according to statistics from Gongbei Customs in Guangdong's Zhuhai.
On January 1, 2023, a policy known in short as "Macao vehicles going northbound" was officially implemented. After completing the application procedures and obtaining customs clearance approval, car owners from Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) can drive their private cars into Guangdong via the Zhuhai Port on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
The same policy was implemented for car owners in Hong Kong on July 1, 2023, greatly facilitating travel between Guangdong and the SAR.
By the end of 2025, customs had cumulatively supervised over 8.345 million single-license-plate vehicles from Hong Kong and Macao entering and exiting Guangdong through the bridge port.
With another policy allowing Guangdong private cars that have completed the procedures to travel directly to downtown Hong Kong via the bridge implemented on Dec 23, 2025, the bridge port now sees an average of 18,000 vehicles passing through daily, making the vision of a "one-hour living circle" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area a reality.
Over 200,000 Macao, HK vehicles registered for direct travel to mainland
