China's third quarter growth 6.9pc, down from 7pc in second quarter
Time:2015-10-21
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"Continued downward pressures from real estate and exports caused GDP growth to drop," said Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics. "But robust consumption and infrastructure prevented a sharper slowdown."
While the latest data marked the slowest quarterly growth rate since the first quarter of 2009, Sheng Laiyun, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics, said that the headline figure`s fall "indicates the restructuring and upgrading of the Chinese economy are going steadily."