BEIJING (AP) - China is considering new steps to boost cooling growth, its top economic official said in comments published Monday, as new data showed manufacturing shrinking further despite surging government spending.
"We may take further new, timely and decisive measures. All these measures have to be taken pre-emptively before an economic retreat," The Financial Times quoted Premier Wen Jiabao as saying in an interview in London.
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