China GDP: second-lowest economic growth in almost 50 years looms after coronavirus-ravaged 2022

• China’s economy is expected to have grown by 2.8 per cent last year and by 1.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of a coronavirus-ravaged year 2022
• China’s full-year growth figure, if confirmed officially on Tuesday, will only be slightly better than the 2.2 per cent growth seen in 2020, which was the lowest since 1976