{"id":67316,"date":"2024-10-18T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T03:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/18\/china-economy-slow-growth-yuan"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T03:56:04","slug":"china-posts-slowest-economic-growth-in-18-months-as-optimism-fades-over-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67316","title":{"rendered":"China posts slowest economic growth in 18 months as optimism fades over stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blistering sharemarket rally of recent weeks recedes as expectations cool towards long-awaited \u2018bazooka stimulus\u2019 for ailing property sector<\/p>\n<p>China posted its slowest growth in a year and a half on Friday, as Beijing struggles to steady an economy shaken by sluggish consumer spending and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/china-new-measures-housing-slump-growth\">persistent property sector woes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have in recent weeks unveiled a string of measures to reignite the world\u2019s number-two economy, with an eye to achieving its official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/05\/china-national-peoples-congress-gdp-target-growth-5-premier-li-qiang\">annual growth target of 5%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/18\/china-economy-slow-growth-yuan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blistering sharemarket rally of recent weeks recedes as expectations cool towards long-awaited \u2018bazooka stimulus\u2019 for ailing property sectorChina posted its slowest growth in a year and a half on Friday, as Beijing struggles to steady an economy shaken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,556,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinese-economy","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\/67316","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67316\/revisions\/67317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}