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China Likely to Show Covid-19 Recovery Can Be Real: Eco Week

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People sit outside a restaurant during lunch hour in the Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai on Oct. 10.

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China is about to show the world that its economy is pulling further out of the chasm created by the coronavirus, setting it apart from other nations struggling to avoid renewed lockdowns.

Gross domestic product for the third quarter -- due Monday -- is forecast to come in at a 5.5% expansion from a year earlier, recovering all of the lost ground from the historic contraction in the first three months of the year.