BEIJING: China recorded its lowest growth in a quarter of a century in 2015, an Agence France-Presse survey has forecast, projecting a further slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy this year.

Official gross domestic product (GDP) statistics for 2015 will be announced on Tuesday, and the median prediction in the poll of 18 economists put expansion at 6.9 percent—down from 7.3 percent the year before.

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