Beijing: China’s economy lost momentum in the third quarter of 2025, expanding at its slowest pace in a year as a deepening property crisis, fragile consumer confidence, and external trade challenges continued to weigh on growth. Official data showed that the gross domestic product (GDP) grew 4.8 percent year-on-year between July and September, matching market forecasts but slipping from the 5.2 percent recorded in the previous quarter. On a quarterly basis, growth stood at 1.1 percent, only a slight improvement from the revised 1.0 percent in the second quarter.

The figures highlighted growing strain within the world’s second-largest economy, which has been struggling to maintain its post-pandemic recovery amid structural weaknesses. Economists said the latest slowdown underscores the

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