China's GDP growth for 2023 on target

Economic challenges: Employees working at a circuit-breaker production line in Fuyang, China’s eastern Anhui province. Without more aggressive stimulus, economists are expecting growth to slow to 4.5% this year, according to a survey. — AFP

BEIJING: China is set to publish the last major data dump for 2023, capping a difficult year after its emergence from zero-Covid and shifting the attention to whether it can sustain momentum this year.

The figures for gross domestic product (GDP), industrial production and retail sales are likely to show improvements from the same period in 2022, helped by a low base of comparison when pandemic restrictions hampered economic activity.