China's Slowdown in Context

China's 2015 forecast growth rate of 6.9 percent compares with the average 10 percent level of the prior 10 years
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

While plenty of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown this year, the world's second-largest economy is still on track to grow somewhere close to 7 percent.

That's almost triple the forecast U.S. rate, nearly five times the eurozone, and more than 10 times Japan's expected clip, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News .