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Statistics indicated orders in the country grew during March and this helped trigger rises in banking and mining stocks, Reuters reports.
By 08:05 BST, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 was 0.6 per cent higher on 1,084.75 points, helping it to recover after ending 0.1 per cent lower yesterday.
Barclays, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank were up by between 0.5 per cent and 0.9 per cent, while mining giants BNP Billiton, Anglo American, Xstrata, Rio Tinto and Kazakhmys were as much as 1.3 per cent higher.
Similar increases were also seen in London, where the FTSE 100 had risen 0.78 per cent to 5,724.22 points by 09:20 BST.
Seven Investment Management's Justin Stewart was quoted by the news source as saying the Chinese data is an "encouraging" sign.
"You've seen more imports going into China as a result of a lot of the infrastructure work being done and that impacts directly into a lot of European companies," he remarked.
Posted by Greg Secker
