Economics
First Into the Virus Slump, China Is Proving the Fastest Out
- Recovery isn’t seamless but enough to see GDP expand this year
- Investment, relative virus success behind stronger rebound
Workers labor at the construction site of an elevated highway on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, on June 12.
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China’s economy, the first to succumb to the coronavirus, is proving to be the fastest to recover.