Profits earned by China's industrial companies in October rose 25.1 per cent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on Monday, slowing from a 27.7 per cent gain in September.
Profits rose to 745.4 billion yuan ($112.94 billion) in October, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on its website.
In September, profits surged the most in nearly six years as prices of finished goods including steel and copper soared.
Prices had jumped due to fears of supply shortages in the winter amid an ongoing government crackdown on air pollution.
In the first 10 months, industrial profits rose 23.3 per cent from a
