{"id":23888,"date":"2025-09-15T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23888\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:18:14","slug":"chinas-economic-woes-deepen-new-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23888\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economic woes deepen, new data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s economic slowdown appears to be deepening, new data showed. <\/p>\n<p>Retail sales, industrial production, and investment levels were all below analysts\u2019 expectations in August, while a real estate downturn intensified. <\/p>\n<p>The figures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/15\/china-retail-sales-industrial-output-slow-in-august-missing-estimates-as-real-estate-slump-worsens.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reinforce worries<\/a> over prospects for the world\u2019s second-biggest economy, which is already grappling with a heavy debt burden, high levels of youth unemployment, and worsening deflation. <\/p>\n<p>2024 saw a similar pattern, in which the economy weakened as the year went on: Solid data at the beginning of 2025 means Beijing\u2019s target of 5% annual growth this year is still possible, but ING\u2019s chief China economist warned <a href=\"https:\/\/think.ing.com\/articles\/chinas-key-activity-data-continued-to-slow-strengthening-case-for-fresh-stimulus\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">further stimulus may be needed<\/a> to ensure that goal is reached.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A chart showing the growth of China\u2019s fixed-asset and property investment over the past 15 years.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/00fc96b13782161460ff01f02d9fa0c9c23ac96d-1218x1024.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economic slowdown appears to be deepening, new data showed. Retail sales, industrial production, and investment levels were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-23888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}