Photo taken on Feb. 24, 2017 shows a worker carrying a monocrystalline silicon stick at a factory in Ningjin County, north China's Hebei Province. China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) came in at 51.6 percent in February, 0.3 percentage points higher than that recorded in January, according to data released on March 1 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). (Xinhua/Mu Yu)