China Q3 GDP growth slows to 4.8% y/y, in line with forecast
- Data released on Monday showed China’s GDP grew 4.8% year-on-year in Q3 2025, just above a 4.76% Wind forecast and slowing from 5.2 in the second quarter.
- A prolonged property slump and renewed US trade tensions drove weaker demand, prompting Chinese authorities to roll out modest stimulus and policy finance tools since September.
- On a quarterly basis, GDP rose 1.1% in Q3, while industrial output grew 6.5 in September, and retail sales slowed to 3.0.
- The figures arrived on the opening day of the Communist Party fourth plenum, running through Oct 23, as Beijing aims for around 5% full-year growth and investors watch December meetings.
- US tariff threats starting November 1 have pressured Chinese exporters, forcing diversification and highlighting vulnerabilities in China's manufacturing- and export-dependent economy despite export growth rebound in September.
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China's GDP, the second largest in the world, grew 4.8% in the third quarter of 2025 compared to the previous year, which represents its slower rate of expansion in one year, although in line with the expectations of most analysts.Even so, the Asian giant's economy averages an expansion of 5.2% to September.The investment in fixed assets, which includes the real estate sector, unexpectedly contracted 0.5% in the first nine months of the year due…

China posts lacklustre Q3 economic data as key Beijing conclave starts
China's economy grew at its slowest pace in a year last quarter, official data showed Monday, as high-ranking leaders kicked off a closely watched meeting in Beijing focused on long-term policy planning.
A real estate crisis, the trade dispute with the US and the clouded consumer mood are slowing China's economic growth. In terms of customs disputes, further negotiations are to take place shortly.
The Chinese locomotive continues to advance, but slows down its pace. The Asian power’s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown in the third quarter at its lowest pace in a year, while trying to weather renewed trade tensions with the United States, in addition to its various internal problems, such as the effects of the housing crisis that still bear fruit, the intense price war in some technological sectors and consumption weighed by low expect…
China's Q3 2025 GDP growth slowed to just 4.8%, the lowest rate in a year, as the property market crisis persisted and trade tensions with the United States resurfaced over China's rare earth export restrictions.
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