(MENAFN) China's annual economic growth decreased to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, which would keep pressure on the policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year, Gulf News reported.
The expected decrease in growth of the world's second-largest economy, from 7.3 percent in the June-September quarter, means full-year would undershoot the government's 7.5 percent target and mark the weakest expansion in 24 years.
A growth of 7.2 percent in October-December would be the weakest since January 2009, when the economy grew 6.6 percent as the worst of the global crisis passed.
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