{"id":51927,"date":"2023-01-17T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/chinas-economy-slows-sharply-with-gdp-growth-close-to-lowest-level-in-45-years"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:00:08","slug":"chinas-economy-slows-sharply-with-gdp-growth-among-worst-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51927","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economy slows sharply with GDP growth among worst on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The economy grew 3% in 2022, exceeding some forecasts, but still well below China\u2019s official target for the year<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s GDP expanded at its slowest pace since the mid-1970s bar the Covid-hit 2020 year, as the world\u2019s second-largest economy struggled under tight pandemic restrictions that were abruptly ditched late in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The economy grew 3% last year, well shy of the 5.5% pace the government had targeted at the start of the year and the 8.1% recorded for 2021. The actual rate though, was better than the 2.7% predicted by the World Bank earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/chinas-economy-slows-sharply-with-gdp-growth-close-to-lowest-level-in-45-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy grew 3% in 2022, exceeding some forecasts, but still well below China\u2019s official target for the yearChina\u2019s GDP expanded at its slowest pace since the mid-1970s bar the Covid-hit 2020 year, as the world\u2019s second-largest economy struggled un&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,556,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-coronavirus","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927\/revisions\/51928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}