China Industrial Output Slows Down

Industrial production and investment have continued to falter in China, dimming hopes for a robust recovery in the world’s second-largest economy this year, official data showed Sunday.

China’s industrial value-added output expanded 8.9 percent year on year in August, down from 9.2 percent in July and and the slowest rate since May 2009, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Urban fixed-asset investment increased 20.2 percent year on year to 21.8 trillion yuan (3.4 trillion U.S. dollars) in the January-August period, 0.2 percentage points slower than the growth of the January-July period.

Private fixed-asset investment went up 25.1 percent to 13.5 trillion yuan, down 0.4 percentage points from the January-July period.

Annual retail sales growth accelerated to 13.2 percent in August from 13.1 percent in July, although inflation-adjusted growth actually slowed by 0.1 percentage points from July to 12.1 percent.

Analysts attributed the economic slowdown to diminishing external demand and authorities’ hesitance to issue stimulus policies for fear of stoking inflation.

via Xinhua

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