People wearing face masks visit a mask stall at a procurement fair for epidemic-prevention materials in Shanghai in this file photo. Sentiment in China’s tech sector and among smaller firms improved this month, suggesting that the recovery in the second quarter of the year continued in July. A gauge of the outlook for small and medium-sized companies rose to 53.9 in July, according to Standard Chartered Plc., which surveys hundreds of such firms in China each month.  SD-Agencies