{"id":724860,"date":"2026-06-25T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724860\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:35:09","slug":"china-economy-6-charts-explain-why-how-economic-growth-is-slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724860\/","title":{"rendered":"China Economy: 6 Charts Explain Why, How Economic Growth Is Slowing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s breakneck economic growth \u2013 which lifted incomes at home and reshaped markets abroad \u2013 once seemed as inevitable as a law of nature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">That presumption is now being tested. On March 5, China\u2019s government lowered its official 2026 growth target <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-22\/china-will-set-lower-growth-target-as-economy-slows-scmp-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">to between 4.5% and 5%<\/a> \u2014 its least ambitious goal since 1991 and a steep comedown from the double-digit expansion of past years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s breakneck economic growth \u2013 which lifted incomes at home and reshaped markets abroad \u2013 once seemed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,144,2447,110,101,11634,11501,1556,2420,12189,134,9746,9107,1432],"class_list":["post-724860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-emerging-markets","tag-explainer","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-home-prices","tag-jobs","tag-law","tag-regulation","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}