{"id":39019,"date":"2019-04-17T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39019"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T08:22:24","slug":"chinas-economy-surprises-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39019","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s economy surprises in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>China&#8217;s economy could be showing renewed signs of life in 2019. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The world&#8217;s second-biggest economy grew slightly more than expected in the first quarter of 2019, Chinese government figures showed Wednesday. It expanded by 6.4% compared to a year ago, beating economists&#8217; forecasts of 6.3%. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The prospect of a deeper slowdown in China has been one of the biggest concerns for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/21\/economy\/imf-world-economic-outlook-davos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">global economy<\/a> this year. China&#8217;s growth has been hit by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/27\/asia\/huawei-us-lawsuit-china-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">trade war<\/a> with the United States and government efforts to rein in a huge amount of debt in China&#8217;s financial system. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)China&#8217;s economy could be showing renewed signs of life in 2019. The world&#8217;s second-biggest economy grew slightly more than expected in the first quarter of 2019, Chinese government figures showed Wednesday. It expanded by 6.4% compared to a year ago, beating economists&#8217; forecasts of 6.3%. The prospect of a deeper slowdown in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}