Asian giant's economy contracts for the first time in nearly three decades
Beijing: China’s economy contracted for the first time in nearly three decades last quarter as drastic measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic brought activity to a standstill, official data showed Friday.
Gross domestic product shrank 6.8 per cent in the January-March quarter from the same period a year earlier, according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics.
It was the first negative growth reported by the world’s second-largest economy since it began logging quarterly data in the early 1990s.
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