{"id":264239,"date":"2025-11-15T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264239\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:15:19","slug":"weak-data-raises-concerns-for-chinas-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264239\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak data raises concerns for China\u2019s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data raised fresh concerns about the health of China\u2019s economy. <\/p>\n<p>Investment, manufacturing, and consumption figures all fell short of expectations, while a long-running property market downturn appeared to deepen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/14\/china-economic-slowdown-october-housing-property-investment-retail-trade-industrial-output.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">amplifying worries<\/a> that the world\u2019s second-biggest economy may miss its annual growth target of 5% this year. <\/p>\n<p>Beyond its trade disputes with the US, China is grappling with huge domestic economic challenges, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2025-china-deflation-cost\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the risk of deflation<\/a>, persistently high unemployment, and a mountain of debt. <\/p>\n<p>Policymakers have so far largely eschewed significant fiscal support, but with ambitious long-term economic growth targets, they may just be holding fire: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/think.ing.com\/articles\/china-october-data-shows-fading-momentum\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">It will be a marathon, not a sprint<\/a>,\u201d ING\u2019s China chief economist wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/abb3692af8d87d708008212657e18a728bc0673c-1647x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A chart showing China\u2019s industrial output and retail sales growth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data raised fresh concerns about the health of China\u2019s economy. Investment, manufacturing, and consumption figures all fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-264239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}