New US administration unlikely to be awed by China's year-end spurt
by Phillip Inman Economics correspondent from on (#29KZZ)
GDP growth improved to 6.8% but only after a 19% increase in public investment and a lighter touch on real estate borrowing
The silver lining in China's disappointing 2016 growth figures was the pickup in performance at the end of the year. Or so it seems.
Annualised GDP growth improved to hit 6.8% in the final three months of 2016, compared with the previous quarter's 6.7%, in a show of strength that a wary Donald Trump will see as further evidence of Beijing's trading prowess.
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