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Data shows strong fixed investment and industrial production, but consumption has weakened. We still expect 2017 GDP growth of 6.2%.The first batch of hard data on domestic activity for 2017 point to strong momentum in fixed-asset investment (FAI) and industrial production, while consumption has been on the weak side. In the first two months of 2017, FAI grew by 8.9% y-o-y, compared to 6.5% for December 2016 and 8.1% for 2016 as a whole. As FAI has been the key variable that drives China’s...
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