{"id":65611,"date":"2024-07-15T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/15\/chinas-leaders-to-meet-for-third-plenum-with-kickstarting-the-economy-on-the-agenda"},"modified":"2024-07-15T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:22:40","slug":"chinas-leaders-to-meet-for-third-plenum-with-kickstarting-the-economy-on-the-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65611","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economy growing slower than expected as leaders meet for third plenum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s second-largest economy is grappling with a real estate debt crisis, weakening consumption, an ageing population and geopolitical tensions<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s economy slowed more than expected in the June quarter, increasing the likelihood that a gathering of top officials in Beijing this week will unveil efforts to rekindle growth.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s second-largest economy expanded by 4.7% in the April-June period from a year earlier,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.gov.cn\/english\/PressRelease\/202407\/t20240715_1955620.html\"> the National Bureau of Statistics<\/a> said on Monday. That result was down from 5.3% growth in the March quarter and the 5.1% rate economists had predicted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/15\/chinas-leaders-to-meet-for-third-plenum-with-kickstarting-the-economy-on-the-agenda\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s second-largest economy is grappling with a real estate debt crisis, weakening consumption, an ageing population and geopolitical tensionsChina\u2019s economy slowed more than expected in the June quarter, increasing the likelihood that a gatheri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/65611","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65611\/revisions\/65615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}