(MENAFN) Data showed that China's economic growth fell to its slowest in the July-September period since the depths of the global financial crisis more than five years ago, Gulf News reported.
The world's second-largest gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to have increased by 7.2 percent over a year ago in the third-quarter period, an AFP poll of 17 economists showed.
The estimations indicate that the country's third-quarter economic growth would be the worst since the first quarter of 2009, in which growth declined to 6.6 percent.
"Given much weaker growth, Beijing will have to push ahead with more aggressive policies in order to hit the 7.5 percent GDP growth target in 2014," an economist for Standard Chartered Bank said.
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