China patchy economic recovery - "most firms in most regions are seeing a far more muted recovery"

CBB International is a New-York-based research group. The firm puts a private survey called the China Beige Book

• adapts methodology used by the US Federal Reserve's "Beige Book"
• its a quarterly report
• uses quantitative & qualitative data to track conditions within the Chinese economy

Reuters have a bit of a summary up on the most recent report from CBB:

• "For the corporate elite - large firms and those based in the Big 3 coastal regions - the economy is accelerating ... But the rest of China - most firms in most regions - are seeing a far more muted recovery," said Derek Scissors, chief economist at CBB, in comments issued with the survey.

Here is the link to Reuters for (a little) more.