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China growth sinks to 3-decade low in 2018

Containers to be shipped abroad at the Port of Lianyungang in China.

Source: AAP

China's economic growth has slowed to 6.4 per cent in the December quarter and 6.6 per cent for 2018, official data shows.


China's economy grew 6.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year earlier, in line with expectations and slower than the previous quarter's 6.5 per cent growth.

For all of 2018, the world's second-largest economy grew 6.6 per cent -- its slowest expansion in 28 years and cooling from a revised 6.8 per cent in 2017, official data showed on Monday. Analysts had expected 6.6 per cent.

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