Economics
China Heads for First Full-Year GDP Acceleration Since 2010
- 2018 expansion forecast at 6.8% in survey before data Thursday
- Retail sales and industrial output seen gaining at steady pace
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China’s economy is poised for its first full-year acceleration since 2010, the year its gross domestic product surpassed Japan’s to become the world’s second-largest.
Data due Thursday at 3 p.m. in Beijing will show the economy expanded by 6.8 percent in 2017 from a year earlier, according to Bloomberg’s survey. Other estimates show: