BEIJING: China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in almost three decades in 2018, analysts in an AFP poll said, as the government struggles to contain ballooning debt and a bruising trade war with the United States.
This aerial picture taken on November 13, 2018 shows the sun rising behind the skyline of Shanghai’s Lujiazui Financial District of Pudong. China’s economic growth ground to its slowed pace in almost three decades in 2018, analysts said in an AFP survey released this month, as the government battled ballooning debt and a bruising US trade war. AFP PHOTO