Economic Watch: China's listed firms sustain recovery momentum as policy support builds up

BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's listed companies have seen improvement in performance quarter by quarter since the beginning of this year, with service consumption, export growth and new economic drivers contributing to the recovery trend.

A total of 5,104 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses saw their combined profits decrease by only 0.4 percent from a year earlier in the second quarter,