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China’s economic growth faces headwinds this year due to weaker-than-expected investment spending in the country’s vast manufacturing sector, driven by Beijing’s efforts to rein in pollution and by a profit squeeze at labor-intensive manufacturers, according to Citigroup Inc. economists.