China Q1 growth slows to 7.3% – AFP survey

BEIJING: China’s economic expansion slowed in the first three months of this year, according to an Agence France-Presse survey, and remains on track for its worst annual performance in nearly a quarter-century as reform priorities trump growth concerns.

Gross domestic product (GDP) in the January-March period expanded 7.3 percent from the same period last year, the median forecast in Agence France-Presse’s survey of 13 economists said.